37 min
Denice Torres | Founder of The Mentoring Place She Leads Me
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Meet Denice Torres | Fortune 50 Senior Executive – Founder of The Mentoring Place - Author – Keynote Speaker
Denice grew up in a lower-middle-class family in Gary, Indiana where she worked as a janitor in a steel mill to save money for college. As a Hispanic, Polish, gay woman from humble
beginnings and a wicked sense of humor, she didn’t exactly fit the mold of a corporate
executive. Driven by equal parts ambition and fear, she began her career practicing law (for the longest year of her life) and eventually joined a large, Midwest pharmaceutical company where she worked her way up the ranks of management.
Denice later joined Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world where she was president of multi-billion-dollar companies in pharmaceutical and consumer sectors. Most notably, she was responsible for leading the successful turnaround of the company that makes Tylenol when products were removed from store shelves due to quality challenges.
Denice’s rise to executive leadership was filled with ups and downs and fueled by what she
refers to as an “asses on fire” mentality to keep going. She has received many awards such as Healthcare Businesswoman of the Year, Mother of the Year at J&J/Working Mother, Diversity Champion of the Year, and has featured in Latina Style, WorkingWomen and other publications.She has also served as a keynote speaker for many Fortune 500 companies on the topics of leadership, change management, and women’s empowerment.
In 2019 Denice founded The Mentoring Place, an online platform for helping women navigate their careers through real-world, no BS insights and guidance. In a matter of weeks, thousands of women signed up for her bi-monthly live streams. In 2020, Denice is launching her first book, “Flip the Tortilla and Other Lessons in Resilience, Optimism, and Mojo.” In October, “Flip the Tortilla, a weekly podcast about women, careers, courage, and resilience – mixed with humor and some irreverence – will be available on all major podcast platforms.
Denice doesn’t believe women should send the elevator down when they get to the top. Instead, she says women should go back and lead other women by the hand - through the muck and uncertainty– to help them achieve their goals.
Denice lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania with her wife, Kim, and their 19-year-old daughter,
Sierra, who was born with cerebral palsy. Sierra has taught Denice incredible life lessons that she happily shares in all her interactions.
Connect with Denice!
www.thementoringplace.com
Meet Denice Torres | Fortune 50 Senior Executive – Founder of The Mentoring Place - Author – Keynote Speaker
Denice grew up in a lower-middle-class family in Gary, Indiana where she worked as a janitor in a steel mill to save money for college. As a Hispanic, Polish, gay woman from humble
beginnings and a wicked sense of humor, she didn’t exactly fit the mold of a corporate
executive. Driven by equal parts ambition and fear, she began her career practicing law (for the longest year of her life) and eventually joined a large, Midwest pharmaceutical company where she worked her way up the ranks of management.
Denice later joined Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world where she was president of multi-billion-dollar companies in pharmaceutical and consumer sectors. Most notably, she was responsible for leading the successful turnaround of the company that makes Tylenol when products were removed from store shelves due to quality challenges.
Denice’s rise to executive leadership was filled with ups and downs and fueled by what she
refers to as an “asses on fire” mentality to keep going. She has received many awards such as Healthcare Businesswoman of the Year, Mother of the Year at J&J/Working Mother, Diversity Champion of the Year, and has featured in Latina Style, WorkingWomen and other publications.She has also served as a keynote speaker for many Fortune 500 companies on the topics of leadership, change management, and women’s empowerment.
In 2019 Denice founded The Mentoring Place, an online platform for helping women navigate their careers through real-world, no BS insights and guidance. In a matter of weeks, thousands of women signed up for her bi-monthly live streams. In 2020, Denice is launching her first book, “Flip the Tortilla and Other Lessons in Resilience, Optimism, and Mojo.” In October, “Flip the Tortilla, a weekly podcast about women, careers, courage, and resilience – mixed with humor and some irreverence – will be available on all major podcast platforms.
Denice doesn’t believe women should send the elevator down when they get to the top. Instead, she says women should go back and lead other women by the hand - through the muck and uncertainty– to help them achieve their goals.
Denice lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania with her wife, Kim, and their 19-year-old daughter,
Sierra, who was born with cerebral palsy. Sierra has taught Denice incredible life lessons that she happily shares in all her interactions.
Connect with Denice!
www.thementoringplace.com
37 min