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Hooters Energizes Culture by Telling the Stories of its Women
Ben Culey reporting to FSR Magazine shares, on International Women’s Day (March 8), Hooters held a virtual celebration in which the company revealed its commitment to starting a facilitated series focused on elevating, empowering, and educating women. A few months later in Lake Tahoe, California—where Hooters held its franchise conference—Whiting-Kish formally launched the series, which will officially begin August 17 and run through November. The inaugural programming will examine the neuroscience of leadership.
Whiting-Kish made this announcement alongside a panel of former employees that used their Hooters Girl experiences as a launching pad into executive careers. Some examples of Hooters Girl alumnae featured during the conference include Jessicah Pounds, Focus Brand’s vice president of training and learning development; Taddy Beuke, a real estate development coordinator at Fasken Oil and Ranch, one of the largest privately owned oil companies in the U.S.; Michaela Falco, president and founder of digital marketing company ME3; Andrea Hill, director of operations for Hooters in Chicago; and Aliscia Andrews, Virginia’s deputy secretary for cybersecurity.
These women were also the subject of a mini-documentary highlighting their origin stories. But Whiting-Kish says that’s just the beginning. The company started a “I am a Hooters Girl” campaign giving employees, both in restaurants and at the corporate office, an opportunity to scan a QR code and submit what they’re proud of, who they are, and what their career goals are.
