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Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 6:00-7:30pm
by invitation online
HCPhx President Olivia Verma Smith, Kweilin's '00 and HBS '03 classmate, will lead the discussion
ABOUT KWEILIN ELLINGRUD: Kweilin is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) and leads Diversity and Inclusion for McKinsey globally. She has broad experience redesigning operating models in financial services and beyond to increase operational efficiency and effectiveness through process redesign, digital, and analytics. She also works with multilateral organizations, global philanthropies, and companies on how to move towards gender and racial equality. She previously led McKinsey’s Life Insurance Practice in North America.
At MGI, Kweilin has led research on gender equality (Power of Parity), racial equity, generative AI, the future of work, productivity, and sustainable and inclusive growth. She is a frequent speaker at global conferences and is a contributing columnist for Forbes. She is also the co-author of the book The Broken Rung to help women navigate their careers.
Kweilin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously worked full-time for two years at a Boston nonprofit helping women entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses through microfinance. Growing up, Kweilin spent a number of years in China, Ecuador, France, and Japan, living with local families and learning the local language.
ABOUT the broken rung, a National bestseller
The broken rung is more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success. Three McKinsey senior partners offer strategies for overcoming it and fulfilling your potential.
Women around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men and have higher average GPAs. But then a strange thing happens: upon entering the workforce, they immediately lose their advantage. When the first promotions come around, the slide continues. For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 81 women overall and 77 women of color get promoted.
This is what McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez call "the broken rung," and its effects compound throughout women's careers, causing them to fall behind at the start and keeping them from catching up. In this groundbreaking book, the authors reveal the problem's underlying cause: while about half of a person's lifetime earnings come from education and half from work experience, men get more value from their experience than women do. It is also here, in one's work experience, that the solution lies: women need to build their "experience capital" to level the playing field and maximize their earning potential.
The book combines over a decade of research, personal conversations with more than fifty remarkable leaders, and the authors' own rich experiences as leaders at McKinsey. They weave data on the potential pitfalls with inspiring and instructive stories of women who have climbed over the broken rung using strategies that increased their experience capital.
Leaders and companies must do more to address gender inequalities in the workplace. But you don't have to wait. The Broken Rung is your guide, right now, for moving up the career ladder and reaching your full potential at work.
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