049: Tami Forman - Going Forward, It Will Be Different

Tami M. 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. 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, aged 10 and 12. On This Episode:Tami explains why she left media to move into the tech software company.Find out what social constructs hold women back.Discover why Tami is so inspired by Melinda Gates.Learn how leaders can be a catalyst for success by allowing their team to tap into their talents.Key Takeaways:Women’s lack of empowerment holds back entire countries.Leadership is within all of us.You must place a lot of emphasis on sustainability in addition to revenue.Tweetable Quotes:“To be a successful leader you have to be willing to admit when you don’t know.”“The radical transparency with which we live is not going away – it’s accelerating.”Tami Forman:pathforward.orgDenis Gianoutsos:[email protected]