Women@Work

Join Laura and Deb DeHaas, Vice Chairman and National Managing Partner of the Center for Board Effectiveness at Deloitte, as they speak about Deloitte’s corporate board diversity report, Missing Pieces. How do you get on a corporate board? And how can more underrepresented candidates get into that pipeline? Listen in as Deb answers these questions and talks with Laura on how to bring diversity and inclusion to life in big businesses.

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on March 6, 2019 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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Laura speaks with Jane Mosbacher Morris, Founder and CEO of To The Market, former Director of Humantarian Action for the McCain institute for International Leadership, and author of Buy the Change You Want to See: Use Your Purchasing Power to Make the World a Better Place.

Listen in as Jane explains how we can shop smarter, and the life changing economic impact our shopping choices can have on communities around the world. 

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on February 27, 2019 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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Laura talks with activist at large, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising and Board President of the MomsRising Education Fund on the importance of the Paycheck Fairness Act, and the combination of issues that women, moms, and families across this country are facing. Kristin details her inspiration for activism, and why with steady work, no matter how small our efforts, big changes can be made. Listen in to find out more! 

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on February 13, 2019 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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Laura talks with Patti Williams, newly appointed Academic Director of Wharton Executive Education’s Executive Development Program about the personal and professional factors that are necessary for women to move into organizational leadership, and the principles behind the design of Wharton’s two-week program. Listen in as Patti shares her own story of stepping into this role, and discusses the power of humility and courage to spark growth and advancement.

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on January 23, 2019 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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Listen in as Ruth Zukerman, founder of both SoulCycle and Flywheel, talks with Laura about how she parlayed her personal passion of indoor cycling, her natural networking skills, and her past teaching experience into two highly successful businesses that help people become better versions of themselves every day. 

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on January 9, 2019 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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What does woman’s anger mean to you? Laura speaks to Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, about the complexity of the emotion and how it is both triggered and addressed (or not) within our culture. 

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on December 19, 2018 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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This week Laura speaks with Loren Mayer, President of Operations at NPR, about how she led NPR’s recovery process after the sexual harassment scandal that shook one of America’s most cherished media organizations to its core. Loren talks through the process and power of listening, being transparent, and consistently reporting progress to help rebuild an organization’s culture and restore trust with the members of its community. 

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on December 12, 2018 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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Is your company good for women? Sandra Hunt joins Laura to discuss Wharton Social Impact Initiative’s innovative report, Four for Women: A Framework for Evaluating Companies’ Impact on the Women They Employ. This report sets up long-needed metrics to measure the degree to which a company is a good employer of women. Join us to hear Sandi explain the importance of transparency in gender lens investing, and the power of standardized and consistent data to grow companies’ workforce of women. 

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on December 5, 2018 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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Laura and Josh Levs reunite to talk about the aspects of masculinity and manhood that are all too often undermined in our current political climate. We explore the social cost of denying men the opportunity to be seen as capable at work, competent caregivers, and essential and eager contributors to a more equal workplace and world. Listen in as Laura and Josh discuss the dangerous misrepresentations of men that were perpetrated in the Kavanaugh hearings, the false notion of work as a zero-sum game, and the enormous importance of providing representations of loving respectful men as role models.

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on November 28, 2018 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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Listen in as we learn to consider the experiences of people who are different than ourselves, and through our day to day conversations, express and generate the respect and compassion that is essential for true inclusion.

Erin Cross, the Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s LGBT Center, shares her expertise in gender and transgender issues to help us all understand the concept of the binary lens. We learn about the unintentional ways we create “us versus them” environments, and discover simple tactics to send a more inclusive message to those around us. Laura goes on to talk with Emory Professor George Yancy, author of Dear White America, about the power of honest introspection as a catalyst for curtailing our own subconscious biases. 

Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on November 14, 2018 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132

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