Carol Fishman Cohen

Carol Fishman Cohen is the co-author of career reentry strategy book Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work, and the CEO and co-founder of iRelaunch (www.iRelaunch.com). Her TED talk "How to get back to work after a career break," with nearly 3.7 million views, can be viewed here: http://www.ted.com/talks/carol_fishman_cohen_how_to_get_back_to_work_after_a_career_break

About iRelaunch

As the pioneering company in the career reentry space, iRelaunch is the leader in career reentry programming of all kinds.

iRelaunch has worked directly with over 250 leading employers to build and expand their career reentry programs and programming.

Founded in 2007, iRelaunch has been deeply engaged with its employer partners, a national network of alumni career services directors at leading colleges and universities, professional organizations across industry sectors, and a global community of over 120,000 people.

iRelaunch co-leads the STEM Reentry Task Force with the Society of Women Engineers, in which over 40 leading employers, including some of the world's largest, are building and expanding their in-house career reentry programs.

The iRelaunch Return-to-Work Conference, iRelaunch's flagship event, has been held 33 times since 2008, drawing a combined audience of over 13,000 attendees. iRelaunch is regularly featured in the national press, including CNN, The TODAY Show, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TED, Fox Business, Vogue, USA Today, Forbes, Fast Company, CNBC, CBS, Harvard Business Review and more. The iRelaunch podcast 3,2,1 iRelaunch! has over 500,000 "listens."

iRelaunch is certified as a woman-owned business by the WBENC.

Carol and co-author Vivian Steir Rabin are both Harvard Business School graduates and relaunchers themselves; between them, they have nine kids and they each returned to work after multi-year career breaks before writing Back on the Career Track and starting iRelaunch. Carol's return to investment firm Bain Capital after 11 years out of the full time workforce is documented in a Harvard Business School case study about professional career reentry. Her Harvard Business Review article "The 40-Year-Old Intern" was recognized 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, and was the subject of a TODAY Show segment. Carol is regularly featured in the national press as a commentator on topics related to career reentry.

Follow iRelaunch on X and Instagram at @iRelaunch, "like" the Facebook iRelaunch page, and join the iRelaunch group on LinkedIn. Check out the iRelaunch website www.iRelaunch.com and the iRelaunch podcast "3,2,1 iRelaunch."

Business Week Editor's Review

For those who have put "former" in front of their once-triumphant titles, there's BACK ON THE CAREER TRACK: A GUIDE FOR STAY-AT-HOME MOMS WHO WANT TO RETURN TO WORK Onetime stop-outs and Harvard MBAs Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin offer a tasty, anecdote-filled field guide to getting back in. Cohen and Rabin masterfully reveal the ambivalence felt by women who can afford to drop out yet may be conflicted about doing so. The book offers lessons on how to de-stigmatize resume gaps and get spouses and kids to buy in to the idea of a return to work. For those who say you can't go back, this book is the definitive rebuttal.--Michelle Conlin