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Carol Fishman Cohen
Carol Fishman Cohen

Carol Fishman Cohen, iRelaunch Co-Founder and CEO

iRelaunch CEO and Co-founder Carol Fishman Cohen consults to some of the world's largest corporations on developing career reentry programs to attract and hire experienced professionals returning to work after a career break. Her seminal Harvard Business Review article "The 40-Year-Old Intern" focuses on the use of the internship as a vehicle for employers to engage with this pool. It 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. Her TED talk "How to get back to work after a career break" has been viewed more than 1.4 million times and translated into 27 languages. 

Through Carol's leadership, iRelaunch originated and co-leads the STEM Reentry Task Force with the Society of Women Engineers, in which 13 global, engineering-based companies, including IBM, GM, Ford, GE Power, and Johnson & Johnson, are piloting reentry internship programs. Carol is the co-author of career reentry strategy book Back on the Career Track, referred to as “the Bible of career reentry,” and a returning professional herself. 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. She is the mother of four Millennials and lives in Boston, MA.  Carol holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Pomona College.

 

 

 

“Carol is a true disruptor. She almost singlehandedly created the return-to-work, re-launcher movement. ”
— Whitney Johnson, Co-founder of Forty Women Over 40 to Watch

Carol Fishman Cohen: How to get back to work after a career break

If you've taken a career break and are now looking to return to the workforce, would you consider taking an internship? Career reentry expert Carol Fishman Cohen thinks you should. In this talk, hear about Cohen's own experience returning to work after a career break, her work championing the success of "relaunchers" and how employers are changing how they engage with return-to-work talent.

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Keynoting at her iRelaunch Return to Work Conference (Courtesy Zacker Images) Carol Fishman Cohen is the Co-founder of iRelaunch, a company dedicated to connecting on-ramping professionals returning to work with employers interested in hiring from this talent pool. iRelaunch has engaged in over 230 return-to-work programs and presentations and maintains a vast [...]

The 40-Year-Old Intern

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Carol Fishman Cohen

Carol Fishman Cohen: The "40 Year-old Intern" Poster Professional Co-founder of iRelaunch; a company connecting professionals returning to work after a career break with employers interested in hiring from this talent pool; Globally recognized expert on career-reentry strategy; Author LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/carolfishmancohen Twitter:@iRelaunch Bio: Carol Fishman Cohen is a mother of four who took a career break when her employer, Drexel Burnham Lambert, collapsed while she was on maternity leave with her first child.

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