Vanessa Fuhrmans
speaker
458 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard Oct 2024
Vanessa Fuhrmans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She now is the CEO of Carbon.
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It's a 3D printing startup.
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But she talked about her time at DuPont when she already had a big P&L role.
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And her boss at the time said, you know, it would be really great for you to round out your resume and take on a support role because this would demonstrate to the board how you can wield influence with other leaders at the company.
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And she was very reticent.
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She said, if boards are forgetful, they'll forget that I had this big role.
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I'm not sure I want to make that move.
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And ultimately, she kept her P&L role and added additional responsibilities to it and then continued on to bigger operational roles.
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She did.
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She saw that as a potential pitfall.
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Yes, I think the apt metaphor is really a glass or invisible wall.
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It's not so much that men and women are progressing in their careers equally and then the women are suddenly hitting a glass ceiling at the very top.
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It's that men and women are building their careers and being encouraged to build their careers in many cases differently than men, often very early on.
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It certainly does.
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You see the Boston Consulting Group did a really insightful study a few years ago where they saw that at companies where there was a corporate culture that fostered diversity and where employees felt like there were more women
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more people of ethnic minorities at the top, the women's ambition levels were equally as high as the men's.
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But at companies where that wasn't the case, there was a much bigger differential.
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Thank you.
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