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Emily Jansen talks women’s leadership, Nevada Women’s Fund and March 14 symposium
Summary
Emily Jansen, podcast host and former Reno Aces general manager, discussed career lessons, women’s leadership and upcoming local events including a March 14 International Women’s Symposium and fundraisers for the Nevada Women’s Fund and the Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation.
Emily Jansen, host of the Leadership Is Female podcast and a former general manager of the Reno Aces, discussed career development, women’s leadership and local events in a Washoe County communications podcast recorded with Nancy Lewinhagen and Bethany Drysdale.
Jansen told Washoe County communications director Nancy Lewinhagen and communications manager Bethany Drysdale that visibility matters in leadership: "You can't be what you can't see," she said, crediting that insight to Marian Wright Edelman and saying it shaped how she approached mentoring and public speaking after taking a major front-office role in professional baseball.
Why it matters: Jansen framed her remarks around practical steps she said help women build career confidence and connections. She described the March 14 International Women’s Symposium at the University of Nevada (9 a.m.–noon), for which she is the keynote speaker, said the event has 220 tickets available for students and the community, and said each attendee will receive a copy of her book, Let’s Go: A Guide to Increasing Your Confidence. She also highlighted local nonprofit work and fundraisers tied to the Nevada Women’s Fund and the Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation.
Details and context: Jansen said she moved to Northern Nevada after a period working in Chicago and Houston, took a role with the Reno Aces and returned to Reno in 2018. She described being the first woman in approximately 20 years to hold a general manager role at the Triple-A level when she took that position, and said public visibility from that role led to speaking invitations and the Leadership Is Female podcast. Jansen said the podcast originally focused on women in sports and expanded to broader female leadership topics.
On community organizations, Jansen said she serves on the board of the Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation and is vice chair this year; she outlined services the foundation provides, including assistance with travel, hotel and some medical expenses for families whose children have cancer. She also praised the Nevada Women’s Fund for scholarship work, saying recipients included college students, mothers returning for degrees and others pursuing advanced study.
On programming and fundraising, Jansen described a "no for the gold radio a thon" taking place this month (as she described it) and a March fundraiser called "Shave for the Brave," where volunteers raise money and shave their heads in solidarity with children undergoing cancer treatment. She said Nevada Women’s Fund sponsorship dollars help pay for scholarships and that the symposium will include tactical sessions on confidence, goal setting and intention.
What’s next: Jansen said she is studying positive psychology at Arizona State University as part of a master’s program and continues public speaking and consulting work. Lewinhagen and Drysdale closed the podcast with information for listeners to submit ideas by email to Washoe311@WashoeCounty.gov.
(Quotes and event descriptions are drawn from a Washoe County podcast conversation among Nancy Lewinhagen, Bethany Drysdale and Emily Jansen.)
