sHeroes: How Dorothy Toran, Executive Producer of The Real Housewives of New Jersey & National Ambassador to the Lupus Foundation, integrates creative storytelling, talent management and production logistics, to create sustainable & compelling programming

…remain sharply focused, and to run your own race. It’s often so easy to be distracted and feel in competition with what we see others are doing. Don’t. The only path you should walk is your own.

As part of my series on strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dorothy Toran who is the Executive In Charge of Production and Executive Producer of Bravo TV’s popular female ensemble docu-series, The Real Housewives of New Jersey. RHONJ is produced by Sirens Media, a division of ITV America. Prior to coming to Sirens, Dorothy served as Executive In Charge of Production at True Entertainment, a division of Endemol. Dorothy is also an award winning producer, whose work has been nominated for both an Emmy and the prestigious Palm D’or Award at The Cannes Film Festival. She has built measured success at a wide array of media companies, including NBC Universal, Viacom, and Discovery…