[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Vernā Myers is principal of Vernā Myers Consulting Group and a nationally recognized expert on diversity and inclusion, primarily within the legal field. She writes and speaks passionately about inclusive environments and improving the recruitment, retention and advancement of underrepresented groups.
[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Debora Spar is the President of Barnard College. Besides being a scholar on issues of international political economy and a former professor at Harvard Business School, Spar is a zealous advocate of women’s education and leadership.
[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Betsey Stevenson teaches Public Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and serves on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors. Her research is focused on how public policy impacts the labor market, particularly the experience of women in the labor market, the economics of …
[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Rebecca Shambaugh is a leadership strategist and the founder of Women in Leadership and Learning, an executive leadership development program. Shambaugh has over 20 years of experience working with leaders and organizations on culture transformation, communication, and strategic thinking.
[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE You’ve probably already read her best-selling book, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” but we couldn’t resist adding Sheryl Sandberg to our list of Thought Leaders. As the COO of Facebook and having given a very popular TEDTalk in 2010, Sheryl Sandberg has become a …
[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Heather Boushey is the Executive Director and Chief Economist at Washington Center for Equitable Growth and Senior Economist at the Center for American Progress. Her work focuses on employment, social policy, and family economic well-being.
The zen of rainmaking Mary Cranston is a former litigator who became the first woman ever to lead a global law firm as the Chair of Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman LLP from 1999 to 2006. During her time there, she increased revenues of the firm’s top 100 clients by 50%, improved firm profits and profits …
The youngest person ever to make partner: the sponsorship effect Mika Mayer graduated from college with a degree in chemical engineering. She later got her law degree and started working at Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) in Silicon Valley. Very early in her career, she began working with a partner who quickly took her under his …
Quickly ascending to partner Susan Mac Cormac began her career in New York and then moved as a third-year associate to Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) in San Francisco, where she “grew up doing deals, some M&A, some private equity, and some venture for a series of men.” Within a few years starting at MoFo, she …
How does a corporate lawyer become a rainmaker? Broad skills and a few specialties From the start, Lizanne Thomas knew her focus would be on business. “I stress to all of our junior lawyers [that], if business as a topic does not engage you, . . . you really need to take a deep breath …
