On this Live Greatly podcast episode, Kristel Bauer sits down with Kweilin Ellingrud and Lareina Yee, two of the authors of THE BROKEN RUNG: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women--and How They Can Succeed in Spite of It.  Tune in now to learn how to empower women in the workforce!

Key Takeaways From This Episode:

• Why the broken rung effect often takes place within the first five years of a woman’s career.
• What women can do to advocate for themselves in the workforce
• Advice for young women looking for their first entry level job.
• When looking to gain experience capital, what’s more important: Your boss or your organization?
•  How motherhood can be an experience capital disruptor or escalator.

About Kweilin and Lareina:

Kweilin Ellingrud is McKinsey's Chief Diversity Officer and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute, based in Minneapolis. As a senior partner at McKinsey, she has led research on the topics of gender equality, racial equity, generative AI, the future of work, and global competitiveness. She also serves clients in financial services across strategy and operational transformations.

Lareina Yee is a McKinsey Global Institute director leading the technology agenda and the global head of Tech Alliances. Based in San Francisco, she is a senior partner whose client works focuses on technology and AI. She served as McKinsey's first Chief Diversity Officer and, in 2015, co-founded Women in the Workplace, an annual research study that has worked with more than 1,000 companies and surveyed nearly half a million employees to understand the barriers to women's advancement in corporate America

 Connect with Kweilin and Lareina:

Order: The Broken Rung: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women--and How They Can Succeed in Spite of It  (March 11, 2025; Harvard Business Review Press) By: Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee and María del Mar Martínez

Website: 

https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/kweilin-ellingrud 

https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/lareina-yee 

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kweilinmellingrud/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lareinayee/ 

About the Host of the Live Greatly podcast, Kristel Bauer:

Kristel Bauer is a corporate wellness and performance expert, keynote speaker and TEDx speaker supporting organizations and individuals on their journeys for more happiness and success. She is the author of Work-Life Tango: Finding Happiness, Harmony, and Peak Performance Wherever You Work (John Murray Business November 19, 2024). With Kristel’s healthcare background, she provides data driven actionable strategies to leverage happiness and high-power habits to drive growth mindsets, peak performance, profitability, well-being and a culture of excellence. Kristel's keynotes provide insights to “Live Greatly” while promoting leadership development and team building.   Kristel is the creator and host of her global top self-improvement podcast, Live Greatly. She is a contributing writer for Entrepreneur, and she is an influencer in the business and wellness space having been recognized as a Top 10 Social Media Influencer of 2021 in Forbes. As an Integrative Medicine Fellow & Physician Assistant having practiced clinically in Integrative Psychiatry, Kristel has a unique perspective into attaining a mindset for more happiness and success. Kristel has presented to groups from the American Gas Association, Bank of America, bp, Commercial Metals Company, General Mills, Northwestern University, Santander Bank and many more. Kristel has been featured in Forbes, Forest & Bluff Magazine, Authority Magazine & Podcast Magazine and she has appeared on ABC 7 Chicago, WGN Daytime Chicago, Fox 4’s WDAF-TV’s Great Day KC, and Ticker News. Kristel lives in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area and she can be booked for speaking engagements worldwide.

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