Women in senior finance careers
From: Maybelle Morgan (@maybelle_morgan)
I'm still looking to interview high-paid senior women in the following roles: lawyer at partner level, IT director/tech lead, finance director/investment banker - to talk about their successful careers! email maybellemsmorgan@gmail.com #prrequest
Suggested talking points
Discuss the specific mechanisms that enabled advancement to partner level—such as client relationship building strategies, rainmaking expectations, and how compensation transparency (or lack thereof) affected negotiation outcomes in your practice area.
Address the technical skill-to-leadership pipeline: how deep domain expertise in systems architecture or financial modeling translated into directorship, and where gender-based assumptions about technical credibility created distinct career obstacles versus male counterparts.
Examine the structural difference between finance director and investment banking roles for women—including deal flow access, sponsorship patterns, and how performance metrics differ between functions, with concrete examples of how you navigated these distinctions.
Position yourself as someone who can speak to the structural and compensation differences women face at senior levels across legal partnerships, technology leadership, and finance—not inspirational narratives, but institutional realities.
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