The Hong Kong native and Cisco SVP never was told when growing up “girls don’t do math” By Jackie Krentzman KC Wu, Cisco’s senior vice president, Operations Architecture, is responsible for keeping the company’s operating platform—in effect, its complex machinery—finely tuned and operating at full potential. Operations...
When Nicole Cardoza started practicing yoga in college, it was the first time she felt at home in her own body. “Yoga made me feel connected to who I am right here, right now,” the 29-year-old says. So years later she wasn’t surprised when, as a volunteer...
Building Bridges Through Diversity by Tamara E. Holmes A financial advisor with investment firm Edward Jones, Emily Pitts noticed that the industry had few people of color. That led her to wonder what Edward Jones could do better to attract and retain a more diverse workforce. The...
A corporate scare turns an employee into an entrepreneur By Sheon Wilson It wasn’t easy finding a natural hair section in stores when Mahisha Dellinger started CURLS in 2002. National retailers weren’t offering much shelf space to products for customers with curly, wavy, and kinky hair who...
Women leaders are uniquely positioned to drive change By Heather Boerner When Christine Candio started as a bedside nurse 33 years ago, the roles were clear—and segregated by gender. Most physicians were men and most nurses were women. And the hierarchy between the two was strict. “If a...
In its quest to achieve gender parity in corporate leadership, Paradigm for Parity set what can be considered an audacious goal—50-50 gender parity by 2030 By Jackie Krentzman When Ellen Kullman was in engineering school, some professors would say to her, “You’re the only woman who has...
