What’s the Biggest Challenge You’re Currently Facing?

Dee Poku-Spalding, Amy Nelson, Jean Brownhill and Kathryn Brownhill discuss new structures for the future of work at the 2019 Women & Worth Summit in New York. Photo by Victoria Engblom

What’s the biggest challenge you’re currently facing? It’s a question we asked the accomplished speakers at the annual Women & Worth conference on March 29. A mix of financial planners, mental health advocates, sustainable solutions designers, investors and founders, their answers were as diverse as their professional pursuits.

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Dr. Terri Cooper, chief inclusion officer at Deloitte US, focused on the need to foster dynamic and diverse workplaces, especially in the face of the AI revolution. For Bea Arthur, a psychotherapist and founder of The Difference, that challenge was tackling the country’s mental health crisis. Christy Coleman, CEO of the American Civil War Museum, mentioned the need to create a commonly understood national history.

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One underlying theme did, however, come through in all their answers: How do we get more women into positions of power and enable them to live their best lives?

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