Leadership Forum: Navigating the Return-to-Office Movement
with Milena Berry, Sienna Brown, Rob Ribar
Riding the labor market through two recessions and whatever we are in now
Carol Fishman Cohen, Katharine Zaleski
PowerToFly co-founder Katharine Zaleski and iRelaunch co-founder Carol Fishman Cohen in conversation.
Carol Fishman Cohen co-founded iRelaunch in 2007, and Katharine Zaleski was a hiring manager at the Washington Post and Huffington Post in 2008 - 2009 before co-founding PowerToFly in...
PowerToFly co-founder Katharine Zaleski and iRelaunch co-founder Carol Fishman Cohen in conversation.
Carol Fishman Cohen co-founded iRelaunch in 2007, and Katharine Zaleski was a hiring manager at the Washington Post and Huffington Post in 2008 - 2009 before co-founding PowerToFly in 2014. Katharine and Carol discuss their experiences revolving around a changing labor market during this unusual 16 year stretch of time which included two recessions, a Pandemic and the recession/non-recession (who knows?) period we are in now.
Meet The Speakers
Carol Fishman Cohen
CEO and Co-founder, iRelaunch
Carol Fishman Cohen, builder of corporate career re-entry programs and leader of the iRelaunch #returntowork community (now over 100,000 strong) is a pioneer in the career re-entry space. Her viral TED talk "How to get back to work after a career break," has nearly 3.7 million views and is translated into 30 languages. She is the host of the popular 3,2,1 iRelaunch podcast and is the author of the seminal Harvard Business Review article "The 40-Year-Old Intern" and the acclaimed more recent HBR article.
Katharine Zaleski
Co-Founder & Board Chair, PowerToFly
Katharine Zaleski was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business after launching PowerToFly, the platform fast-tracking economic equality through upskilling and connecting underrepresented talent to roles in high-visibility sectors.
PowerToFly assisted two million people who came to the platform in 2021 through job opportunities, networking and virtual events across the world's largest employers.
Prior to co-founding PowerToFly, Katharine was the Founding Managing Editor of NowThis; the Executive Director of Digital for The WashingtonPost; and the sixth hire and Head of News for The Huffington Post. She writes for major publications, including The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes and Quartz and has appeared on TODAY, Good Morning America and numerous outlets. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Katharine lives in New York with her family where she is a Term Member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a frequent kite-surfer on Long Island and New Jersey’s under-appreciated beaches.
