Parlay House Boston: The Professional Feminist

Parlay House

Could you use more authentic connections with interesting women and less transactional ones? Welcome to Parlay House!

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We can't wait to see you! Please remember:
In an abundance of safety for our members and guests, we will be implementing the following for this gathering:

Vaccination is required for all attendees. If you are not vaccinated, we welcome you to join us at one of our upcoming digital conversations.

We will limit the number of attendees to 40 (so grab your ticket ASAP)! 

The event will take place indoors at Anne's home. Masks will not be required but you are welcome to wear one

Are you still grinning from having joined our Parlay House Boston Launch party in September? Luckily, this party is just getting started. Sometimes we celebrate together, and at other gatherings we dive into the experiences that are real (and challenging) for so many of us.Our next event is no exception.Many of us have spent years working our way up the ladder only to hit a glass ceiling. In October we'll be talking about how we can try to break barriers with a multi-pronged approach. Enter Colleen Ammerman, the director of the Gender Initiative at Harvard Business School. Colleen leads research to further equity, diversity, and inclusion in professional spaces. As the co-author of Glass Half Broken: Shattering the Barriers that Still Hold Women Back at Work, Colleen will share her story and her devotion to promoting gender diversity in professional environments.Join us for an affirming and empowering conversation asserting that it is in everybody’s power, men and women, leaders and supervisors, to foster equity and diversity in the workplace. See you there, and if you can, bring a friend so we can keep growing this sensational group!Sips and snacks will be provided, and we have no doubt that meaningful connections will be sparkedThis event will be hosted by our Boston Local Instigators: Ashleigh Powers, Jill Bodnar, Jin Li Frick, Meghan Houle, and Susan Thifault. You'll receive specific location, parking, and arrival details after signup.ABOUT OUR SPEAKERColleen Ammerman is Director of the Gender Initiative at Harvard Business School, whose mission is to catalyze and translate cutting-edge research to transform practice, enable leaders to drive change, and eradicate gender, race, and other forms of inequality in business and society. Colleen works with the faculty leadership of the Initiative to support a research community and a platform for disseminating practice-relevant insights for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in organizations. She oversees the Initiative’s staff, operations, and activities, including student and alumni engagement, programs for companies, and research conferences. She is a member of the Life &amp; Leadership After HBS research team, an ongoing longitudinal study of Harvard Business School alumni which examines the influence of gender and race on their life and career outcomes. She has written various articles and teaching materials on gender in the workplace and is coauthor, with Boris Groysberg, of Glass Half- Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work (Harvard Business Review Press 2021).

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