Management

Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin are the co-authors of the acclaimed career reentry book Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work, and the co-founders of iRelaunch.com, a company providing career reentry programming, events and information to employers, universities, organizations and to mid-career professionals in all stages of career break. Carol and Vivian have presented their career reentry strategies to over 3,500 people at more than 60 events since 2006. Their signature event, the Career Relaunch Forum, is an all day return to work conference offered in major suburbs and cities across the country. Both Harvard Business School graduates, Carol, a mother of four, and Vivian, a mother of five, resumed careers in very different ways after taking multi-year career breaks.

Carol Fishman Cohen

• Co-author, Back on the Career Track

• Frequent speaker and consultant to corporations, universities, non-profits and mothers groups on the topic of career reentry

• Over 18 years of diverse business experience, primarily in finance

• Mother of four children ages 13 to 18

• Relaunched at Bain Capital in high yield debt management after 11 years out of full time workforce

• Subject of Harvard Business School case on Professional Career Reentry

• BA in Economics from Pomona College, MBA from Harvard Business School

Vivian Steir Rabin

• Co-author, Back on the Career Track

• Frequent speaker and consultant to corporations, universities, non-profits and mothers groups on the topic of career reentry

• Over 18 years of diverse business experience, including leadership roles in finance and human resources, in the media, financial services, consulting and executive search industries

• Mother of five children ages 11 to 19

• Relaunched by joining a small executive search firm after seven years out of the workforce

• BA in English from Harvard College, MBA from Harvard Business School

Nina Eigerman is an innovator in flexible work. A frequent contributor to work/life balance conversations, she has spoken on the topic at Harvard Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Conference Board, and other industry forums.

Nina helps other people achieve balance as a Partner with a-connect, a staffing firm that brings together independent professionals with project work at major corporations. At a-connect, she focuses on the retail and consumer sectors and other marketing intensive industries.

Prior to joining a-connect, Nina was the President of Aquent Consulting, the process consulting arm of marketing and creative services staffing firm Aquent, and she was a consultant with McKinsey and Company in Boston. Over the course of seven years at McKinsey, she became a leader of the North American Sales Force and Channel Management Practice, bringing customer-centric strategies to both retailers and manufacturers.

Nina graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a BA from Harvard College.

Jules Pieri, Founder, Daily Grommet

Jules is founder of Daily Grommet, an upcoming product discovery channel for social media. She was previously President and C.O.O. of Ziggs.com, a social networking site for professionals.

Jules has been building consumer brands and developing innovative products for over twenty years. She held positions as Vice President of Strategic Planning at Stride Rite Corporation and Director of Strategic Marketing and Licensing at Keds Corporation. She also worked with Playskool as a long term product strategy consultant, and was a Vice President at Design Continuum, a leading international product design and engineering consultancy. She lived in Ireland from 2001-2005, where she consulted to consumer facing enterprises. Jules' expertise and enthusiasms span retail, brand, and product strategy

Early in her career she worked as an industrial designer at Sagem S.A. (Paris), and Burroughs (Detroit). She was also a graphic designer at Data General (Boston).

Jules studied Industrial Design, Graphic Design, and French at the University of Michigan. She was conferred an MBA degree by Harvard University, where she was selected by faculty to receive the Ellis-LeBaron Fellowship.

She lives in suburban Boston with her husband and three sons. Jules continues to enthusiastically study the French language and never turns down an invitation to hike or go see a play.