Peg Wyant
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| Peg Wyant | |
|---|---|
| Born | Margaret Hogan November 26, 1942 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Smith College |
| 💼 Occupation | Business executive, president and CEO of Grandin Properties |
| 🏛️ Political party | Democratic |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Jack Wyant (m. 1973) |
| 👶 Children | John H. Wyant, V; Margaret Wyant Smit; Timothy F. Wyant; Christopher Wyant |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Evalon Roberts and Timothy Sylvester Hogan |
Margaret Hogan Wyant (born November 26, 1942) is an American business executive and author. The Procter & Gamble Company hired her in 1967 as its first female brand manager.[1] [2] [3] In 1979, she became the first woman to report directly to then CEO John G. Smale and manage the newly established Strategic Planning and Acquisitions Group.[4] Peg authored her autobiography One Red Shoe,[5] a memoir of leadership and success from a pioneering female Procter & Gamble executive, entrepreneur, real estate magnate and working mother of four.
Early life and education[edit]
Wyant was raised on a farm in Mulberry, Ohio, near Cincinnati, the daughter of Evalon Roberts and Federal JudgeTimothy Sylvester Hogan, United States District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and granddaughter of Mary and Timothy Sylvester Hogan, a politician who served as Ohio’s “pioneering” Attorney General and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1914 against Warren G. Harding. Wyant graduated from Hillsdale (now Seven Hills School) and, in 1964, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College. She worked for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Information and participated in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.[6]
Career[edit]
Early work[edit]
In 1965, Wyant founded American Education International, a travel and education program for high school students. She was then hired in 1967 by future CEO John E. Pepper to be The Procter & Gamble Company’s first woman in brand management. In 1979, she built and led the company’s Strategic Planning and Acquisition Group, becoming the first woman to report directly to CEO John G. Smale.[4] [1] In 1986, after the birth of their fourth child, she left to be a full-time mother.
Serial entrepreneur[edit]
Wyant founded Isabella Capital[7] in 1999, focused on women-led businesses, after founding Grandin Properties[8] in 1998, a Cincinnati-based real estate development firm which she still runs today.[9]
Politics[edit]
Politics were prominent in Peg’s heritage and life[10] as granddaughter to Ohio’s “pioneering” Attorney General Timothy Sylvester Hogan whom Warren G. Harding defeated in 1914 during his bid for the Senate in an anti-Catholic campaign. Peg is the daughter of Federal Judge Timothy Sylvester Hogan.[10] Her sister, Nancy Dutton, served as Secretary to the Cabinet, and Nancy's husband Fred Dutton as Special Assistant to United States President John F. Kennedy and Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations during the Kennedy administration.[10] Among other things, Fred invented “Earth Day.” Brother Timothy S. Hogan, III, was the youngest County Commissioner elected in Ohio in 1973 and now serves as member of Ohio’s Central Democratic Committee.[10]
Cousin Timothy S. Hogan was U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Ohio whose judicial philosophy was “do the right thing and the law will follow.” Son, Christopher Wyant, campaigned for President Barack Obama and served in the White House as Executive Director for the Agency for Trade and Development.[11] Chris's wife Lauren Kidwell was the first to work in Obama’s campaign for the Senate and later served in the Commerce Department in his administration.[12]
Further reading[edit]
- Wyant, Peg (2012). Seldom Have a Bad Day. Cincinnati, Ohio: self-published. ISBN 9781736544204. Search this book on
- Wyant, Peg (2021). One Red Shoe. Columbus, Ohio: Gatekeeper Press. ISBN 9781642375138. Search this book on
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Leading in Gender Equality: The History of Women and P&G". P&G Good Everyday. Procter & Gamble. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Defying Gravity". Smith College Alumnae Relations. Smith College. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Surprise! Peg Wyant, P&G's first female brand manager, is here today!". Twitter. Procter & Gamble. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Peg Wyant: The woman who led the way". Cincinnati.com. Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
- ↑ "One Red Shoe: The Story of Corporate America's First Woman". One Red Shoe Memoir. Peg Wyant. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Internes in Work-Study Program: Local Smith Students Summer in Washington". Cincinnati.Newspapers.com. Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Peg Wyant: New venture fund in works". Cincinnati Business Courier. Cincinnati Business Courier. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Grandin Properties: Cincinnati Apartments of Distinction". Grandin Properties. Grandin Properties. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Confidence is Contagious". Smith College Alumnae Relations. Smith College. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 "The Irrepressible Hogans". Google Books. Cincinnati Magazine. December 1975. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- ↑ "What They're Saying: Completion of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations". Office of the United States Trade Representative. Executive Office of the President. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- ↑ "Mrs. Kidwell goes to Washington". The Daily Illini. The Daily Illini. February 25, 2005. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
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