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As a Business Management major with a Finance specialization — and a 3.98 GPA — Alexandra Hanley is no stranger to hard work. At Stony Brook University, she’s a teaching assistant for Business Communications, a Forté Campus Ambassador, and a leader in Women in Business. She’s built a strong academic and leadership foundation, but like […]

How One Student’s Decision to Show Up Led to an Unexpected Career Path  When Caroline Chou walked into the Forté Emerging Leaders Conference, most of the tables were already full. So she took a seat in the back. The prospect of attending a conference initially felt intimidating. “I was feeling rather lost in my business […]

A colleague of mine said something the other day that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. We were talking about career ladders, the metaphor, the model, the whole idea, and she paused and said: Why did we all assume the ladder went up? I mean, what are ladders for, other than to get […]

Most people do not hear the words virtual career fair and think ‘warm’ or ‘personal’, or ‘human.’ They think awkward networking, a sea of resumes, carefully rehearsed elevator pitches, and recruiters bouncing between conversations while candidates try to stand out in tiny squares on a screen. And why not?  Career fairs often feel transactional even […]

Featuring Hines and Deja Alfaro, NYU Stern Before Deja Alfaro found herself working in fund management in London, she was a first-generation college student at NYU trying to figure out where she fit in finance. Like many business students going to school in New York, the path seemed to point in one direction. “Everyone just […]

Yesterday, my daughter texted a picture from work. Two tiny preschoolers, both perched squarely in her lap, grinning at the camera. It was adorable. She’s spending her gap year at a preschool, before she starts graduate school in the fall. I’ve gotten a lot of texts like this.   But it was her caption that made […]

When people talk about women’s advancement, the conversation usually jumps straight to the C‑suite. But the real story starts much earlier, at the very first step up. For more than seven years, we’ve had a name for the place where women’s careers most often stall: the Broken Rung. First introduced by McKinsey andLeanIn.org in 2019, […]

This is the time of year when people who are famous, accomplished, or both get invited to stand in front of a room full of graduating students and say something memorable. Graduation speeches are supposed to be inspirational. They are meant to give you good advice. And they are supposed to send you out the […]

When Anuva Wardah arrived at the College Fast Track to Finance Conference, she wasn’t sure how her background in Political Science and Sociology would translate into a finance career. As someone deeply involved in civic engagement, global affairs, and social impact work, she had always been curious about the industry — but also unsure whether […]

By the time the cava and canapés came out in Barcelona, the formal part of the evening was over. But according to one of the event speakers, that was when some of the best conversations actually started. A few days after ESADE and Forté Foundation hosted their International Women’s Day Symposium in Barcelona, panelist Elena […]