Climb Up or Step Off: Covid Pushes Women to Rethink the Career Ladder

Ford Fund Director Pamela Alexander and former Fifth Third Bank Senior vice president Nicole Johnson-Scales reached similar positions on the corporate ladder. But, like many women in the upper levels of the corporate world, the pandemic made them reevaluate their career goals. Stay on the corporate ladder or step off? Maybe leap to a totally new one? And, as two of a small number of Black women in the top echelons of corporate America, what would their decisions mean for other women with ambitions for the corner office? Listen as they tell their stories and discuss these and other pandemic epiphanies with host Tess Vigeland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices