Women@Work

Jenna Fisher is the Global Corporate Officers Sector Leader of Russell Reynolds Associates. Jenna Fisher leads the Corporate Officers Sector globally and specializes in leading senior financial officer assignments, serving clients across various sectors, including the technology, consumer, healthcare and retail industries. Jenna's clients include Fortune 1000 corporations, middle-market private equity portfolio companies, as well as highly visible, pre-public venture capital-backed enterprises. The majority of her work over the past ten years has been recruiting CFOs, although she has conducted numerous assignments for treasurers, controllers, internal audit executives and division chief financial officers. Jenna is also involved at the board level, recruiting financial experts to serve on Audit Committees. She is based in San Francisco.Aired April 25, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode of Women@Work live from the Wharton People Analytics Conference 2018, Adam Grant and Laura Zarrow talk with Mary on her career, management style, and support for diversity in the workplace.Mary Barra is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors Company. Under Barra’s customer-centric leadership, GM has focused on strengthening its core business of developing great cars, trucks and crossovers, while also redefining personal mobility with investments in advanced technologies like connectivity, electrification, autonomous driving and car sharing. Prior to becoming CEO, Barra served as Executive Vice President, Global Product Development, Purchasing & Supply Chain and as Senior Vice President, Global Product Development. In these roles, Barra and her teams were responsible for the design, engineering and quality of GM vehicle launches worldwide. Barra holds her B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.Aired April 18, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leah Fessler is a reporter at Quartz, The Atlantic's global business sister-site, where she covers gender, relationships, and work culture. She also writes on the intersection of feminism and tech, and is a nationally acclaimed expert on hookup culture. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Prior to Quartz, she worked in management at Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, and studied English and creative writing at Middlebury College in Vermont. She lives in Brooklyn with her pug, Chester, and is originally from Boston.Aired April 18, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jennifer Freyd is a Professor of Psychology at the University of OregonJennifer J. Freyd, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and an author, consultant, and speaker. She is known for her influential theories about sexual assault and harassment including her theories of betrayal trauma, institutional betrayal, institutional courage, and DARVO (Deny, Attack, & Reverse Victim & Offender – a perpetrator strategy). The author or coauthor of over 200 articles, Freyd is also the author of the Harvard Press award-winning book Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse. Freyd has received numerous awards including being named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, an Erskine Fellow at The University of Canterbury in New Zealand, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation. Freyd currently serves as the Editor of The Journal of Trauma & Dissociation and she is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford. Freyd attended the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate education and received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University.Aired April 18, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lauren Smith Brody is the founder of The Fifth Trimester movement and the author of 'The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby (Doubleday)', a simultaneous #1 best-seller in the Amazon categories of Motherhood, Women & Business, and Cultural Anthropology. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, CNN.com, Forbes, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glamour, Refinery29, and dozens more outlets for business leaders and mothers. Prior to launching T5T, Lauren had a 16-year career in magazine publishing, most recently as the longtime executive editor of Glamour magazine at Condé Nast, where she produced the Women of the Year awards, honoring luminaries like Dr. Maya Angelou and Hillary Clinton. As both an executive-level manager and a content expert, she led colleagues and 12 million monthly readers through career and life transitions with empathy and vital information. Raised in Ohio, Texas, and Georgia, she now lives in New York City with her husband and two young sons.Aired on April 4, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subha V. Barry is Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Working Mother Media. She oversees Working Mother magazine, workingmother.com, Diversity Best Practices (the leading corporate membership organization supporting diversity and inclusion), and the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE).Subha’s career spans 30 years of experience in front-line business, operational, and leadership roles where she has built cohesive and productive teams to be agents of change. She has shown how strong and inclusive leadership can drive business results and profitability.At Freddie Mac, Subha was Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer with oversight of of Diversity & Inclusion, Supplier Diversity, Community Engagement, and the Freddie Mac Foundation. She was a direct report to the CEO and served on the firm’s management committee.During her 20 plus years at Merrill Lynch, Subha was a wealth advisor, a branch manager, the creator of the Multicultural Business Development Group and lastly a Managing Director and Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion.Subha is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where she teaches gender policy. She serves on a number of Boards aligned with her passions – education, cancer research and women and girls.Aired March 21, 2018; August 2, 2017 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elena Botelho, Co-author of "The CEO Next Door" and Partner in leadership advisory firm ghSMART, talks with Laura Zarrow about how you can tap into your unique strengths, and grow into being a more successful and impactful leader, regardless of where you started.Elena L. Botelho is co-author of "The CEO Next Door", founder and co-leader of the CEO Genome Project, and a partner at leadership advisory firm ghSMART. Elena’s passion is helping CEOs who aspire to elite levels of performance and social impact achieve their full potential. CEOs engage Elena to accelerate their success and protect them from painful setbacks. The CEO Genome Project is an extensive research and client practice that provides guidance to CEOs and executives on the path to becoming CEO, including behaviors that lead to the top, typical setbacks CEOs encounter and ways to prevent them. Elena is a member of McKinsey M&A Integration Council—an invitation only forum of senior executives from major corporations to share M&A best practices. Prior to joining ghSMART, Elena was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where she advised CEOs and senior executives of Fortune 500 companies and major private equity players on the issues of M&A, business strategy, organizational change, and operations. Her clients included major corporations in media, technology, and financial services. Elena grew up in Moscow and Azerbaijan and now lives with her family in Washington D.C. She holds an MBA from Wharton.Aired on February 28, 2018. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Dawn Graham, career expert and author, talks with Laura Zarrow about practical tips for switching careers. She is a contributing writer for Forbes and her first book “Switchers: The Smart Professional’s Guide to Changing Careers and Seizing Success” is in press (AMACOM) and due in stores in summer 2018.She is one of the country’s leading career coaches, with almost two decades of experience in recruiting, coaching, career management, leadership assessment, training, and business transformation. As director of career management for The Wharton School’s Executive MBA program, Dawn works with a population of hard driving business executives, most of whom are changing careers at the prime of their professional lives while vying for some of the world’s most competitive jobs. Dawn also host Sirius XM Radio's popular weekly call-in talk show “Career Talk,” offering advice on career transitions to a diverse population of North America.Prior to joining Wharton, Dawn ran her own career coaching business and had a successful career at Personnel Decisions International (a Korn Ferry company), providing executive consulting, assessment, and coaching services and also implementing the firm’s global talent resource allocation infrastructure. Before that, Dawn gained exposure to corporate talent development via recruiting, training and coaching roles at companies such as Arthur Andersen, AT&T, and Lee Hecht Harrison.A licensed psychologist, Dawn holds a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Denver, a master’s degree in applied behavioral science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelors’ degree in psychology from Seton Hall University. She is on the Board of Directors for the MBA Career Services for Working Professionals Alliance, and a member of the Association of Career Professionals International and the American Psychological Association.Aired February 21, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Scholar, talks with Laura Zarrow about the gender gap, her book, "The Cost of Being a Girl," and what we can do as parents and employers to get our girls back on track.I am a Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Scholar. My pronouns are she/her/hers. I am currently serving as the Book Review Editor of Gender & Society. I received my Ph.D. In Sociology from State University of New York in Stony Brook in 2005. During my time at Stony Brook, I worked as the Managing Editor of Men and Masculinities ( editor: Michael Kimmel) published by Sage. My research focuses on work, gender and youth. My work has appeared in many sociology journals such as Contexts, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Theory & Society, NWSAJ and Education& Society and has been featured in many popular venues such as the Atlantic, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Newsday, PolitiFact and the Star Ledger.Aired February 14, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joanne Lipman, author of 'THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together.' Picking up where LeanIn left off, Joanne and Laura talk real data and real solutions to the gender gap.Joanne Lipman is the author of 'THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together,' published by William Morrow (January 30, 2018). A veteran journalist, she served most recently as Chief Content Officer of Gannett, and Editor-in-Chief of USA TODAY. She began her career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, ultimately rising to deputy managing editor—the first woman to attain that post—and supervising coverage that won three Pulitzer Prizes. Subsequently, she was founding Editor-in-Chief of Portfolio magazine and portfolio.com, which won Loeb and National Magazine Awards.Lipman has pioneered integrating gender equality into the workplace. She has written on the topic for publications including The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA TODAY and Time. As one of the most senior women in the media industry, she has actively promoted women in the newsrooms she leads. A frequent speaker about women in the workplace, she has addressed mixed-gender groups at major law firms, banks, professional and civic organizations, on issues such as unconscious bias, women in leadership, and bringing men into the conversation about gender equality. Recent speaking engagements on women's issues include the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and Women in Cable Television's national leadership conference, which she keynoted with Katie Couric. Lipman is a winner of the Matrix Award for women in media. She and her husband live in New York City and are the parents of two children.Aired February 7, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.