Meet United States’s 78 Top Career Planning CEO’s

Carol Fishman Cohen

CEO, Co-Founder of iRelaunch

Carol Fishman Cohen is CEO and co-founder of iRelaunch, the leading and most comprehensive career reentry resource. iRelaunch is a strong advocate for the unique value that returning professionals bring to the workforce, and for the employers that hire them. iRelaunch has connected with a national network of over 13,000 people through more than 185 return to work programs and presentations. Carol is the co-author of acclaimed career reentry strategy book Back on the Career Track, a returning professional herself, and a practitioner immersed in the career reentry space for nearly 15 years. A graduate of Harvard Business School and mother of four, Carol’s return to work at Bain Capital after 11 years out of the full-time workforce is documented in a Harvard Business School case study. Carol has connected with thousands of professionals who have successfully returned to work after a hiatus, and has engaged with hundreds of hiring managers to understand their perspectives, and the risk they associate with hiring people returning from career break. Carol speaks globally about career reentry strategy. She has been tracking career reentry programs of all types since 2008 and has been studying the use of “professional internships” as a top career reentry strategy since that time. Returning professional internship programs are emerging as a special category of progressive action for reintegrating professionals back into the workforce at a later life stage. Carol’s 2012 research report about returning professional internships was the first to recognize the emergence of the internship as a powerful return-to-work strategy for both employers and returning professionals, and was the basis for a series of articles Carol wrote on the topic for Harvard Business Review. Her article “The 40 Year Old Intern,” was selected as an “HBR article that changed the way I think” as part of HBR’s 90th anniversary recognition of HBR articles that made the biggest difference in readers’ and contributors’ lives. Carol made her second appearance on the Today Show in a segment on this article. Carol was named a 2014 “40 Women to Watch over 40” Honoree. She is regularly featured in the national press as a commentator on career reentry topics. Back on the Career Track was one of Library Journal’s Best Business Books of 2007 and received 4 out of 5 stars from Business Week. To this day, it continues to receive excellent reader reviews. Originally published by Hachette, it is now published by Amazon and has been translated into Dutch and Korean.

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