Awards

Ragan Communications and PR Daily’s Top Women in Communications Hall of Fame (2024)

HERoes Executive
Role Model List (2023)

PRovoke Media
Influence 100
(2023)

HERoes Executive
Role Model List
(2022)

Gold Stevie for Thought Leader of the Year – Consumer Products
(2022)

PRovoke Media
Influence 100 (2022)

Women in Business Stevie Awards Female Thought Leader of the Year (2021)

HERoes Role Model
List 2021 (2021)

PRovoke Media
Influence 100 (2021)

PRovoke Media
Influence 100
(2020)

PRovoke Media
Influence 100 (2019)

Hall of Femme
PRWeek (2017)

Global Power Book
PRWeek (2017)

Changing the Game Award
Advertising Women of New York/She Runs It (2017)

Global Power Book
PRWeek (2016)

Top Women in PR
PR News (2015)

Global Power Book PRWeek (2015)

Individual Achievement
SABRE (Superior Achievement in Branding and Reputation) (2015)

Finalist, Marketing Communications World Technology Network (2015)

Inductee
Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame (2014)

Woman of Achievement
University of Arizona Eller College of Management (2014)

Power List
PRWeek (2014)

Outstanding CSR/Sustainability Executive
Bulldog CSR Awards (2014)

Global Professional of the Year—Agency
PRWeek Global Awards (2014) 

Agency Awe Professional
PR News Agency A-List Awards (2013)

Gold, PR Blogger of the Year
Bulldog Stars of PR Awards (2013)

Global PR Person of the Year
Havas Worldwide (2013)

In2 Innovator 25
The Holmes Report (2013)

Honorable Mention, Individual Blog PR News Social Media Icon Awards (2013) 

PR Professional of the Year, Global
(2012)

Hall of Fame
PR News’ PR People Awards
(2012)

25 Most Powerful People in PR
Business Insider (2012)

Winner, Blog, People,
PR News Digital PR Awards (2011)

Lifetime Achievement,
Golden Bridge Awards (2011)

Management Team of the Year (with Lisa Rosenberg and Donna Murphy),
Golden Bridge Awards (2011)

Blogger of the Year,
Golden Bridge Awards (2011)

Winner, Speech or Bylined Article
Bronze SABRE (2011)

PR Professional of the Year in the U.S.
(2011)

PR industry trifecta for Jack + Bill initiative for 20-somethings: PR Innovation of the Year, PRWeek; PR Agency Initiative of the Year, Iron SABRE; PR Innovation of the Year,
 Gold, Bulldog Reporter 
(2009; Marian was CMO of Porter Novelli and the creative force behind Jack + Bill)

Top-rated trendspotter,
The Independent (2006)

One of the world’s top five trendspotters,
global publisher VNU (2004)

One of 10 “Job Titles We’d Like to Have,”
Fast Company (1996)

“Cyber 60,” 
New York (1995)

“40 Under 40,”
Crain’s New York Business (1995)

One of the New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age,” War and Peace in the Persian Gulf: What Teenagers Want to Know (1991)