How to Find a Flexible Job That Doesn’t Derail Your Career with Path Forward's Tami Forman

Work-from-anywhere policies are here to stay, and they can be a gift OR a curse. The gift? Flexible scheduling. The curse? Less career advancement. You can determine which one it may be by evaluating if companies use these policies purposefully, protecting against marginalization in the workplace. Tami Forman is the Chief Executive of Path Forward, a nonprofit dedicated to easing back-to-work transitions for people returning from parental leave. Join her as she outlines the key considerations of flexible work in our current context.

Tami Forman

Bridget Finkeldey

Tami Forman is the chief executive of Path Forward, a nonprofit organization that creates mid-career internship programs to ease the transition back to work for women (and men) after taking a break for raising children or other caregiving responsibilities. Path Forward has worked with more than 80 employers, including Amazon, Netflix, Walmart, Apple, Comcast NBC Universal, Verizon, and SAP, to launch, implement and expand these programs. Before founding Path Forward, Tami spent a decade as a tech marketing executive with data solutions provider, Return Path. Before that she worked in book publishing at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin and held senior-level editorial positions at iVillage and News Corporation. She is a frequent speaker on issues related to women’s participation in the workforce, having presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration, DisruptHR, Tech Inclusion, and the Conference Board’s Women’s Leadership Conference. She writes a career column for Forbes, is a Fairygodboss VIP, and was named by Flexjobs as one of the top 20 career experts for working moms. She lives in New York City with her husband and two kids.

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Bridget Finkeldey

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