Monica Smiley comes to The Institute of Consumer Money Management Board with a strong background in business and journalism. She is the editor and publisher of Enterprising Women, a magazine published for women business owners which reaches one million women entrepreneurs around the world. She is a highly regarded thought leader on the topic of women’s entrepreneurship.
Ms. Smiley serves on the National Association of Women Business Owners National Advisory Council, is a member of the Women Presidents’ Organization, and is an Institute of Economic Empowerment for Women (IEEW) board member. She has been a United States delegate to the Global Summit of Women seven times, traveling the globe for the gathering of women entrepreneurs from around the world. For the past seven years, Ms. Smiley has mentored women through the IEEW Peace through Business program, hosting women business owners from Rwanda and Afghanistan in her home. In 2011, she founded the Enterprising Women Foundation to benefit the growth of women’s entrepreneurship around the world.
Ms. Smiley earned her journalism degree from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. She now lives with her husband in Cary, NC and is the proud mom of two adult sons, three step-children, and grandmother of five grandchildren.