
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.

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 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.