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Carol Fishman Cohen Turned an 11-Year Resume Gap Into a New Career Category
A collapsed investment bank gave Carol Fishman Cohen an unexpected exit. Eleven years later, she returned to finance, studied the path back and helped turn the resume gap from a hiring liability into an entry requirement.
The Degree Filter Was the Bug. Opportunity@Work Wants Employers to Rewrite the Code.
America has more than 70 million workers with skills learned outside a bachelor’s program. Opportunity@Work discovered that training them was only half the job - the harder task was persuading hiring systems to see what was already there.
Kerry Perez
Kerry Perez built a career by learning the next room before she was fully fluent in its language. Now AMN Healthcare's CMO is joining marketing, strategy and conversation into one operating system for growth.
Karen Bennett
Karen Bennett is Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Cox Enterprises, the privately held Atlanta conglomerate with nearly 50,000 employees across automotive, communications, and media. She oversees talent, benefits, HR technology, inclusion, and corporate brand. A Terry College of Business alumna twice over, she spent nearly 14 years at Turner Broadcasting before climbing through Cox Media Group and Cox Communications to the parent company's top people role in January 2023.
Valence
Valence builds Nadia, an enterprise AI coach deployed across the Fortune 500 to give every employee always-on, personalized leadership and performance coaching. Founded by Parker Mitchell, the New York company pivoted from team-performance software to generative AI coaching after the release of ChatGPT, and now runs 50+ global deployments and more than one million coaching conversations with NPS scores consistently above 90. It raised a $50M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in September 2025.