Gender Bias Experts, Andie Kramer and Al Harris have worked vigorously for over 30 years to remove gender inequality from the workplace
and to make women’s career opportunities more comparable to men’s. During this time, they have helped thousands of women navigate both obvious and subtle gender-based obstacles on the path to successful careers.
Gender Bias Experts, Andie Kramer and Al Harris have worked vigorously for over 30 years to remove gender inequality from the workplace
and to make women’s career opportunities more comparable to men’s. During this time, they have helped thousands of women navigate both obvious and subtle gender-based obstacles on the path to successful careers.
Andie and Al are the co-authors of three award-winning books: Beyond Bias: The PATH to Ending Gender Inequality at Work Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2023), Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work (Nicholas Brealey, Second Edition 2020) and It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias That Built It (Nicholas Brealey, 2019). They are contributing writers to Harvard Business Review’s On Women and Leadership (2019), and Andie is a contributing writer on gender issues in the workplace for Forbes.com. They are also the authors of hundreds of articles on diversity and overcoming gender stereotypes that have been featured in a wide variety of national media outlets including HBR.org, The HuffPost, The New York Times, NBC News, The Chicago Tribune, and Fast Company.
Together and separately, Andie and Al speak and lead workshops across the country to provide realistic, detailed, and readily usable advice to increase women’s leadership opportunities and to help individuals and organizations move beyond bias.
Meet Andie
Andie is the Founder of ASKramer Law, LLC. Prior to this, she was a partner in an international law firm where she is the founding chair of her firm’s Gender Diversity Committee and has served on both her firm’s Management Committee and Compensation Committee. She was named one of the 50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America by the National Law Journal for her “demonstrated power to change the legal landscape, shape public affairs, launch industries, and do big things.” She also received the Founders Award from the Chicago Bar Association, the Women with Vision
Award from the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, the Inspiration Award from the Coalition of Women in Law Initiatives and was named the 2014 Gender Diversity Private Practice Lawyer of the Year by ChambersUSA for her outstanding contributions to furthering the advancement of women in law.
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Meet Al
Al was a founding partner of the Chicago law firm of Ungaretti & Harris, which in 2015 merged into a large national law firm. At Ungaretti & Harris, Al served for many years as managing partner and then as a member of its Executive and Compensation Committees. In these roles, he had extensive experience watching and evaluating women as they moved up the career ladder. Along the way, Al developed a growing sensitivity to the barriers and biases women face in traditionally male career environments and began mentoring women in many career fields as well as researching and writing extensively on the subject of stereotypes and biases with a specialization in gender biases.
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