A playbook to inspire & ignite the female leaders of tomorrow.
Why are we are conditioned to consider a man more likely to lead a business than a woman?
Our mission is to break this down.
Above the Median re-engineers the mentality of young female leaders with an actionable playbook and democratized access to c-level mentorship. We empower women to achieve career milestones and leadership positions in order to build a more gender balanced, and equitable, Corporate America of the future.
Access to mentorship changes the approach to our conditioning.
Leaders want to help rising stars. However, leaders lack the time and resources to be committed as mentors. Above the Median opens a channel for young women to receive mentorship from women in c-level positions.
Meet the ATM Women
Mary Cranston, Chairman of Phillsbury Winthrop
Peggy Koenig, Founder and Chair of Private Equity firm Abry Capital
Sonia Gardner, Co-Founder of Avenue Capital
Jewel Burks Solomon, Partner at Collab Capital, Head of Google Startups, Founder of Partpic (sold to Amazon)
Liza Landsman, GP at NEA, Board Member of Squarespace, former President of Jet.com & former Managing Director at BlackRock
Marjorie Sennett, former Hedge Fund partner of Farallon Capital
Abby Adlerman, CEO of Boardspan
Alexandra Albers, former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley
Deborah Jackson, Founder and CEO of Plum Alley
Nancy Pfund, Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners
Julia Collins, Founder and CEO of Planet FWD, Co-Founder of Zume Pizza
Carrie Schwab, CEO of Schwab Foundation and financial literacy champion (was in Obama’s administration)
Ryan Shadrick Wilson, Founder and CEO of Boardwalk Collective
Sheila Patel, Chairman of Goldman Sachs
Tracey Warson, Chairman of Citi Private Bank
Alison Davis, Board Director of Silicon Valley Bank and former Partner at Kearney
Sarah Poncet, General Counsel for Chanel and awarded the Legion of Honor in France
Liza Schiffman, Global Director, EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women
Soraya Darabi, General Partner at Trailmix Ventures
Sutian Dong, Partner at Female Founders Fund
Denise Thomas, CEO of Apple Pie Capital
Elizabeth Wilmot, former EVP of Citi Marketing, President of Data Killers (sold company)
Alison Moore, CEO of Comic Relief
Linda Serge, Chief Strategy officer at Diamond Foods and Board Member at Callaway Golf Company
Shannon Warren, Chief Compliance Officer at JP Morgan
Sara Wardell Smith, Head of Business Solutions at Visa
Amy Schioldager, Board Director at AIG
Linnea Roberts, Founder and CEO of Gingerbread Capital, former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs
Sue Romans-Barsamian, Board Member of Symantec, Box, Xactly Corp, Gainsight, Boardspan, and NortonLifeLock; former Executive Vice President at Hewlett Packard Enterprises
Kelly Williams, Director at Grasshopper Bank, Founding Chair and Co-CEO of PEWIN, Vice Chair of Smithsonian American Art Museum
Cat Lee, Partner at Maveron
Kate Shillo Beardsley, Founding Partner at Hannah Grey
Jessica Peltz, Founding Partner at Hannah Grey
Sue Decker, Former President of Yahoo!, CEO of RAFTR, Director for Board of Directors at Berkshire Hathaway, Costo, Vail Resorts, Vox Media, Survey Monkey, and Automaticc
Janet Lamkin, California President, United Airlines, and former President of Bank of America , California
Aditi Javeri Gokhale, Chief Commercial Officer & President, Investment Products and Services at Northwestern Mutual
Jacki (Hoffman) Zehner, former Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, Founder of Zehner LLC and President of The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Founation
Kat Utecht, Managing Partner at Core Innovation Capital
Carrie Thorne, CIO of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
Talbott Roche, CEO and President of Blackhawk Network
Katelin Holloway, Partner at Initialized Capital
Lata Krishnan, CFO, Shah Capital Partners
Laurel Taylor, CEO of FutureFuel
Hannah Grove, CMO at State Street
“I wasn’t in it to be a lifetime assistant”
— Kate Shilo Beardsley
We’re starting with the business industry, but were just getting started.
This is a 10x solution. Over 45 women have been interviewed in the process of making this