Across most measures women’s progress toward equality has stalled. While women are now more likely than men to pursue higher education, they are not equally represented in workforce participation or in leadership. In this talk Tami Foreman, Communications Executive, Campfire Consulting, will discuss the different kinds of power, why it’s important for women to have and wield power in a variety of institutions and what we can all do to support women in gaining that power. Tami will be joined in conversation by Quinn Conyers.
Tami Forman is an expert on gender equity, workforce development and women’s participation in the paid labor market. She is a frequent speaker on these issues, having presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration, DisruptHR, Tech Inclusion, and the Conference Board’s Women’s Leadership Conference, among others. She is also a writer on topics related to career and women in the workplace at publications like Fortune, TODAY.com, New America Weekly, Forbes and LinkedIN. She was a Fairygodboss VIP and was named by Flexjobs as one of the top 20 career experts for working moms. She writes a newsletter on these and other topics on Substack called How She Does It. In 2016 she founded Path Forward, a nonprofit organization that empowers stay-at-home mothers and other family caregivers to restart their professional careers. She led Path Forward for seven years, during which time more than 100 companies, including Amazon, Apple, Comcast NBC Universal, Netflix, SAP, Walmart, and Pepsi worked with Tami and her team to launch and expand return to work programs.