In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership team taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women and four men—the gender-balanced C-suite she had been determined to build when she took the reins of the online special-education company in early 2019. “You have to be very deliberate and proactive to achieve this,” says Eberle Walker, who set and accomplished the same goal in a previous CEO role. “But it is important. Business needs gender diversity.” [...]
For Sarah, searching for an appropriate internship opportunity meant a simultaneous investigation into her ambitions: if traditional HR wasn’t the right fit, what was? She wasn’t just seeking potential companies, but promising visions and missions. [...]
