Paula Madison
Madison Media Management
CEO
Paula Williams Madison is CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a LA-based global media consultancy. In 2011, Madison retired from NBCUniversal, where she had been EVP of
Diversity as well as a Vice President of GE, then the parent company of NBCU. During her 22 years with NBCU, she held a number of successful
leadership roles, including President and GM of NBC4 Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Regional General Manager for NBCU’s Telemundo TV stations and VP and News
Director of NBC4 New York.
Her career as a journalist led to a 1996 Peabody Award for Ti-Hua Chang's NBC4 investigation, A License to Kill. Madison’s continued dedication to quality journalism helped NBC4 Los Angeles
earn numerous Emmy, Golden Mike and Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Madison is the executive producer and subject of Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to
China, a compelling documentary that chronicles her journey to her maternal grandfather’s
homeland in China and the reconnection of her family with his 300 descendants. HarperCollins
published a memoir on the journey, Finding Samuel Lowe China, Jamaica, Harlem in April
2015.
She is a highly sought after public speaker, particularly on the topics of corporate diversity,