Women's Week 2017 - Discussion on Re-entering the Workplace After an Extended Absence with Carol Fishman Cohen, Co-Founder of iRelaunch

By Columbia Business School Alumni Club of Boston

Date and time

Thursday, April 6, 2017 · 6 - 8pm EDT

Location

Bank of America Financial Center, 16th floor

100 Federal Street Boston, MA 02110

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Description

Dear CBS Alumni Community,

In honor of the 6th Columbia Business School’s Women’s Week, we are delighted to host an evening with Carol Fishman Cohen, the CEO and co-founder of iRelaunch www.iRelaunch.com.

This event is for women looking for concrete ways to return to the workforce after a long hiatus. We expect several engaging and thought-provoking conversations during this intimate gathering.

We are honored that Carol has accepted our invitation to speak to our Club. iRelaunch works with employers to create programs for hiring professionals returning to work after a career break, and provides strategies for relaunching individuals to resume their careers.

The event will be held at the Merrill Lynch at 100 Federal Street on the 16th Floor. Doors will open at 6 pm, and the speaker will begin promptly at 6:30 pm. Everyone is invited, and light refreshments will be served. Please buy your tickets soon as seating is limited. We look forward to seeing you there!

Best regards,

CBS Club of Boston Board

About Carol Fishman Cohen and iReLaunch:

Carol wrote the seminal Harvard Business Review article "The 40 Year Old Intern" on this topic and is a regular HBR contributorhttps://myhbp.org/leadingedge/d/cla?&c=42050&i=42052&cs=67c0b2973de5b66d86f5e9e754529351.

Her TED talk 'How to get back to work after a career break" has been viewed over 1.4 million times and translated into 27 languages. http://www.ted.com/talks/carol_fishman_cohen_how_to_get_back_to_work_after_a_career_break /

Carol and iRelaunch work closely with professional associations on initiatives in which groups of companies implement mid-career internship programs at the same time. The best example is the STEM Reentry Task Force initiative with the Society of Women Engineers in which 13 companies, including IBM, GM, Cummins, Ford, Johnson & Johnson, GE Power and more, are piloting reentry internships for returning engineers in 2016 and 2017 http://reentry.swe.org/ .

iRelaunch's flagship event, the iRelaunch Return-to-Work Conference has run 19 times since 2008 and over 5,000 people have attended http://www.irelaunch.com/rtwabout . It is sponsored by companies interested in hiring returning professionals.

Carol is a graduate of Harvard Business School and her return to work at Bain Capital after 11 years out of the full time workforce is documented in a Harvard Business School case study.

Carol was recently named to the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led. http://thinkers50.com/scanning/on-the-radar/.

She lives in Boston and is the mother of four Millennials.

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Columbia Business School Alumni Club of Boston

The mission of the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of Boston is to enhance the social and professional experiences of Columbia Business School alumni throughout the Boston area.

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