How She Did It: Companies Built for Women, by Women
Our March webinar features origin stories of businesses supporting STEM careers and Female Founder exits.
In honor of Women's History Month, we'll be speaking to two women about how their experiences in the workplace, as a tech executive and a founding CEO, impacted their decision to disrupt the talent pipeline status quo for female engineers and exit outcomes for female founders.
We’ll ask them about their experiences, their businesses, the distinct challenges they faced, and what fueled their plans for innovating on behalf of women.
This webinar is part of our Pathways and Profiles series, where we talk with women about their process for more purposeful, self-directed careers.
Carrie Kerpen is the founder and CEO of The Whisper Group, the #1 Exit Readiness Advisory Practice for Women-Owned Businesses. Prior to launching The Whisper Group, Carrie started, and scaled Likeable Media, a women-led digital agency, which was named the 6th Best Place To Work in New York City. After successfully navigating the sale of Likeable to 1200-person technology firm 10Pearls in 2021, Carrie researched The Exit Gap, producing an annual report on the disparities in exit values of female-led companies . She went on to build The Whisper Collective, the only community dedicated exclusively to exited female founders.
Carrie is the author of WORK IT: Secrets For Success From The Boldest Women In Business and THE WHISPER WAY: The Secret Formula For Women Entrepreneurs To Scale and Sell For Life-Changing Money (May 2025), as well as the host of “The Exit Whisperer”, a podcast featuring exited female founders. Carrie is also a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), and lives in Port Washington, New York with her husband, her three children, and her dog Homer.
Andrea Mohamed is a courageous leader with over 20 years of experience building high-performing teams and driving organizational growth. As COO and Co-founder of QuantumBloom, she helps develop and retain diverse technical talent through pioneering early-career leadership programs combining curriculum, coaching, and community.
Previously at RTI International, Andrea served as VP of Strategy, Innovation, Marketing and Communications. A recognized thought leader in workforce development and leadership, Andrea serves on the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Workforce Advisory Board and frequently speaks at prestigious venues including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Her insights on women in STEM have been featured in Newsweek, and she recently delivered the keynote at NC Tech's Annual Leadership Summit and was a Business Journal Women in Business awardee in 2021.
Andrea is a first-generation college graduate with degrees from Northern Michigan and Duke Universities. She lives in Cary, NC, with her husband, two t(w)een children, and their two tuxedo cats.