Reclaim Your Career

Katherine Goldstein is the Creator of The Double Shift, a newsletter and community that's a social change laboratory for moms. She is a journalist who writes about mothers, caregivers, and gender equity for the NYTimes, Harvard Business Review, TIME, WashPost, Vox, and more.

Katherine is a 2023 care reporting fellow for the Better Lab at New America and a former Harvard Nieman Journalism fellow. She is also a corporate speaker and ...

Jenny Blake is the author and host of Free Time, an award-winning book and podcast for heart-based business owners exploring how to free their minds, time, and team for more of their best work. She is also the author and host of Pivot, the go-to career development framework for forward-thinking organizations, pivoters, and entrepreneurs. Jenny is an international keynote speaker and licenses her Pivot Programs to clients like Googl...

Lauren McGoodwin is the Founder and CEO of Career Contessa, a trusted career resource that helps working women be more fulfilled, healthy, and successful at work. She is the host of The Career Contessa Podcast, an educator, and the author of Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose. Before Career Contessa, Lauren was a university recruiter for Hulu focused on hiring, employer branding, and program man...

Blessing Adesiyan is the Founder and CEO of Mother Honestly, a community-powered care platform that transforms benefits for employers and employee caregivers. She began her career in chemical engineering before leading global business solutions for Fortune 100 companies such as PepsiCo, Cargill, DuPont, and BASF

Blessing has been featured on Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, ABC, and Fortune Magazine. She obtained a bachelor's ...

Gorick Ng is a Career Adviser at Harvard College, specializing in coaching first-generation, low-income students. He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right. Gorick has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Financial Times, New York Post, and CNBC. He was named one of the Top 30 Thinkers to Watch in 2022 by Thinkers50.

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Emily Hay is the Founder and CEO of Hay There Social Media, a community-led brand that upskills women across the US to be freelance social media managers. She has been a freelancer for over a decade, specializing in social media marketing. 

Emily and her husband were featured in the Fair Play Documentary, produced by Reese Witherspoon’s media company Hello Sunshine and based on the New York Times bestselling book by Eve Rodsky. She...

Rebecca Stump is the Co-founder and CMO of Full Plate Full Cup, a paradigm-shifting destination for team coaching and group experiences on a mission to start a happiness revolution at work. She spent over 12 years leading industry-shaping companies like Nike and mindbodygreen, empowering leaders to turn expansive thinking into impactful action. Rebecca's dedicated to helping others get off autopilot and embrace the possibility of b...

Cameron Rogers is the Private Wealth Advisor at Ellevest, the only investing platform built for women by women. She is a CFA who has spent her career advising high-net-worth individuals and some of the country's largest institutional investors. Cameron advises clients on generational wealth, investing for financial and social impact, and nonprofit investment strategy. She acquired a bachelor’s degree in finance from Georgetown Univ...

Jessica Bell van der Wal is the Co-founder and CEO of Frame Fertility, the first and only evidence-based platform that enables the early identification of fertility risk and care navigation. Frame Fertility’s approach helps alleviate the cost of fertility problems for patients, employers, and providers. 

Before Frame, Jessica led marketing and strategy teams at companies such as Castlight Health, Nike, Deloitte Consulting, and Gene...

Ambika Singh is the Founder and CEO of Armoire, a clothing rental membership company built for working women. She has worked across small and large organizations with roles in marketing, business development, product management, SEO, and social media. Additionally, she played a significant role in the creation of internet startups Rover.com and TravelPost.com as well as Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7 for Microsoft.

Ambika was fe...

Linda Goodman is the Principal of LG Associates: a marketing, strategic planning, and qualitative research consultancy. She is the pioneer of emotional trigger research and the co-author of Why Customers Really Buy. For more than 20 years, Linda has successfully helped b2b and b2c clients understand emotional triggers and how to capitalize on those triggers to grow their companies. She's also a former C-suite executive who worked i...

Sophia Dozier is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Rapid7, a company that believes in simplifying the complex to unite your teams around cybersecurity. She is a data-driven professional that supports diversity and inclusion. She helps drive strategy around diversity retention, engagement, leadership development, strategic partnerships, and hiring. Sophia also worked at Clong Education, IBM, and Google.

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Christina Altomare is the Global Events Marketing Leader at IBM where she's involved in multiple diversity and inclusion efforts. She is a seasoned marketing and communications leader with over 15 years of experience in the technology industry. Christina has a deep passion for cultural transformation, purpose-driven outcomes, and advancing inclusion. She has professional experience in visual design, user experience, and leading and...

Ellen Bailey is the VP of Diversity and Culture at Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), a not-for-profit, wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University on a mission to improve the practice of management in a changing world. Ellen creates and executes the diversity and inclusion strategy, vision, and goals for the organization. She drives employee engagement and business results by serving as a catalyst to deliver the best practices a...

Amin Ameen is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Global Consumer Products at Twitter. Amin started her career as an engineer where she worked in a male-dominated field and developed her skills by taking on numerous roles of responsibility. Her passion for photography and creative mindset helped her step into entrepreneurship, product consulting, and the tech industry. 

Amin’s mantra “When you teach, you will always learn twic...

Jess Galica is the Founder and Executive Coach of Reclaim Your Career. Her business has a blog and a podcast where women help each other pursue bold, authentic lives through personal anecdotes. Motherhood inspired Jess to interview more than 150 successful, high-performing career women; these stories are found in her upcoming book, Reclaim Your Career: Stories of Women Letting Go to Get Ahead. 

Jess is also a speaker, tech leader, ...

Emily Levada is the Chief Product Officer at Embark Veterinary, a company that provides dog DNA tests for purebreds. She is a customer-focused, collaborative, and creative product executive. She focuses on delivering value through delightful & intuitive e-commerce products and tools. Additionally, she is a skilled people manager, coach, and community leader who excels at building a sense of belonging among teams.

Emily is passionat...

Allison Whalen is the Co-founder and CEO of Parentaly. When Allison became pregnant with her first child, she realized firsthand the huge gap in how companies support working parents before, during, and after parental leave without impacting their career trajectory. Parentaly offers the tools and services employers everywhere truly want to support working parents in the most critical, wonderful, and vulnerable moments of their live...

Aniekeme Umoh is a Nigerian born human design guide and life coach based in New York City. She has lived many lives — as the VP of Operations at a startup in New York, an independent consultant to the CEO of Diddy’s fashion company, a product manager, technical program manager, and investment banker. She earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an engineering degree from Columbia University. Her e...