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"This is an overwhelmingly positive and supportive environment. Coworkers at all levels work hard to help each other and ensure that we have the best opportunity to have fulfilling and challenging work, develop both personally and professionally." 
 
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"Everybody here is very friendly, helpful, competent, encouraging. I'm greeted with a smile and “Hi!” in the mornings; colleagues hold the hallway door and the elevator doors open; complete strangers knew my name on my first day. Things like this did not happen at my last job." 
 
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Fortune’s second annual list of the 100 Best Workplaces for Women highlights companies with generous benefits, flexible schedules, and an emphasis on balancing work and life. 

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"Employees are given lots of training, regardless of their position. Professional growth is valued here. It really makes you feel good." 
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"This is the best company that I have ever worked for," says a millennial employee at this accounting and auditing firm. "They value employees and customers. You are recognized for individual and team contributions. There is no competition between peers but rather a sense of helping others to be a success so we are successful as a company. Management affords employees the ability to grow and develop their careers rather than constraining to a specific job or skill." 
 
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According to another millennial: "Management has a high level of integrity. It truly respects customers and employees and is dedicated to producing high-quality products. The open line of communication between senior management and staff is refreshing!" 
 
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EKS&amp;H also appears at No. 4 on the list of the <a href="http://fortune.com/best-workplaces-baby-boomers">20 Best Workplaces for Baby Boomers</a>. 
 
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Every employee at this accounting firm has the chance to hear feedback at the end of a project or on a quarterly basis—and is asked for "upward" feedback for their direct supervisor. Office "neighborhoods" (floors or sections of departments) get together regularly for lunch or happy hour. 

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Boasting multi-billion-dollar valuations, Handshake and Remote are doing things differently than the Fortune 500 — and they say it’s paying off. Handshake’s laser-focus on Gen Z is transforming early-career recruiting by connecting college students with employers through a social media-like platform designed for digital-savvy users, prioritizing accessibility and inclusivity. Remote is  creating global workforces, allowing companies to easily hire, pay, and manage talent in over 180 countries, cutting onboarding time from weeks to days without needing a local entity. These cofounders will reveal how shaking up the HR game isn’t just good for innovation – it’s changing the future of work for businesses and job seekers and leading to long-term profitability.  

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Oleksandra Matviichuk, Human Rights Lawyer; Head of the Board, Center for Civil Liberties (appearing virtually) Interviewer: Ellie Austin, FORTUNE  

MPW Summit 2023: Fighting For Human Rights In Ukraine

For nearly 600 days. Russia has waged war on Ukraine when Russian forces invaded. On February the 24th, 2022 the Russian regime thought it would take control of Ukraine in a matter of days. But the Russians have been met with strong resistance from the Ukrainians due in no small part to the resilience of civilians and the actions of people. Like our next guest, Alexandra Max V. Cook is a human rights lawyer and leader of the Center for Civil Liberties. In key last year, the CCL received the Nobel Peace Prize for its years of work promoting democracy and safeguarding human rights in Ukraine and for its more recent work, documenting evidence of Russian war crimes. Alexandra joins us today virtually to talk about the importance and complexity of such work and living a life devoted to defending democracy. Hello, Alexandra. Um Thank you so much for joining us today. Now, we're obviously here to talk about the situation in Ukraine, but we couldn't have this conversation this week without acknowledging the Israel Hamas conflict. What's your reaction to the news over recent days? And what does it mean for the human rights situation? More broadly globally, I was horrified when I saw the picture of terrible crimes which terrorists done and committed against people in Israel. And this reminds me that we live in a very interconnected world and only spread of freedom, make our world safer. When you can't stop evil in one part of the globe, the the unpunished will increase and this practice will multiply and will be uh will be widespread by another Syrian leaders in another part of the globe. And as a human rights lawyer, you work to bring perpetrators of war crimes to justice, but that obviously takes time. Um Yesterday, President Biden committed military support to Israel. What other actions would you like to see the US and the international community take now to support all victims of this conflict? If we speak about Ukraine, I will emphasize that when large scale invasion started, the United States and other democratic countries said, let's help Ukraine not to fail. And Ukraine started receiving first serious weapons to be able to defend ourselves and first serious sanctions against Russia were introduced into force and we are extremely grateful, but this is the time to change this party into another one. Let's help Ukraine to win fast because there is a significant difference between let's help Ukraine not to fail and let's help Ukraine to win. And we can measure this difference practically in types of weapons, in speed of decisions and gravity of sanctions. The problem is that we have no time, the time for us converted in humorous death in battlefield, in humorous death in deep rear, in humorous death in the occupied territories. President Biden has said that he will support Ukraine and I quote, for as long as it takes, um, however, congressional approval is needed to keep funneling aid into the country. Congress recently prevented a government shutdown but um military and civilian aid for Ukraine was excluded from that particular deal. Alexandra, what would it mean for Ukraine's military efforts if the US reduces or halts its aid to the country? We hope that this support will be restored because we know that people in the United States support Ukrainians in our fight for freedom. There are a lot of things which have no limitation in national borders and freedom is one of such things as well as human solidarity and we can be very far from each other through the geographical points of view, but very close on the values and people in Ukraine are fighting for freedom in all senses, for a freedom to be an independent country, not Russian colony, for freedom, to preserve Ukrainian identity and not to be forced to educate our Children as Russians and for a freedom to have our democratic choice. Just a chance to build a country where the rights of everybody are protected. The Center for civil liberties has been documenting war crimes committed by Russia since 2014, when Russian forces annexed Crimea and invaded the Donbas region. But obviously, the nature and the volume of your work has I imagine changed since February 2022. Can you explain how in a practical sense you and your team gather evidence on the ground of war crimes and the situation is so dangerous and so uncertain. When large scale invasion started, we face with unprecedented numbers of war crimes, which means that we face this unprecedented level of human pain. And in order to document it, we united our efforts with dozens of regional organizations and we built all Ukrainian network of local documents. We have an ambitious goal to document each criminal episode which was committed in the smallest to in in Ukraine and working together since February 24 we jointly documented more than 52,000 episodes of our crimes and this is enormous amount, but it's still a tip of iceberg because Russia uses most crime as the methods of war fear. Russia attempts to break people's resistance and occupy brain by the tool which I call the immense pain of civilian population. And um once you have collected evidence, what happens next? I know that neither Russia nor Ukraine are members of the International Criminal Court which makes it more complicated to prosecute those responsible for atrocities in Ukraine. What's the next step when you have the evidence you're talking about? This is a good question. I started to ask to myself since March last year. For whom do we document of the prime poor because we face with the accountability gap which has two dimensions. First, there is no International Court who can persecute Putin and top political leadership and high military command, the Russian state for the crime of aggression. Even the International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction over the crime of oppression in the situation of Russian war against Ukraine. And this means that we have to establish a special tribunal and hold Putin and his surrounding accountable. And the second problem we face with unprecedented numbers of war crimes. The Ukrainian Office of General Prosecutor officially opened more than 100 criminal proceedings. Can you imagine 100 it's impossible to effectively investigate even for the best national system in the world. We are not the best system in the world but still it's possible because now we have a digital instrument which provide us opportunity to document war crime in a way which we couldn't even dream of 15 years ago. Like the work of Baca and other investigators convincingly proved that in order to restore what was happening, no necessity even being in a court. So we need international assistance to provide justice to all victims. And this is possible in the 21 century. Um I'm gonna open it up in a second. Um Alexandra, it was your birthday a few days ago and you posted very movingly on social media about the impact of your work on you personally on your mental health, on your ability to feel happiness and joy. Can you elaborate on that a bit? What is the personal effects on you of hearing such regular accounts of this horrific violence? I have been documenting war crimes for nine years already. And I told with more than hundreds of people who survived Russian captivity, they told me horrible stories how they were beaten, raped, packed into wooden boxes. Electrically shocked rage in Italia and their fingers were cut, their nails were torn away, their nails were drilled. I never forget how one woman told me how here I was the coach with a spoon. And the problem is that I can't get used to such stories. And maybe it's not a problem, maybe it's privilege because if I still feel the pain and empathy to people, this means that everything is ok with my personality and just to make our audience understanding what stories we have in our database with the 52 thousands of cases. Let me just quote a small part of testimony of woman Svetlana who lost her entire family after Russian rocket hit your building. I heard them dying. My husband was breathing, pushing as he was trying to throw the sto but he couldn't. At some point. He just froze my grandma and Jena died instantly. I heard my daughter crying a moment later. She also fell silent about my son. My mother said that he called me several times. And then fell silent. We can't get used to such stories. This horror has to be stopped. That was incredibly difficult to listen to. Um Does anyone have any questions for Alexandra? Um If not, I will continue. Um I've got a couple more so earlier this year, the IC C issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin's arrest um for alleged war crimes and they also issued a warrant for the arrest of his commissioner for Children's Rights. Has any progress been made regarding Putin's potential arrest? And if not, will it be? I would emphasize for significant importance of this step from the International Criminal Court because he like provides a signal which is very important and we speak about the future in, in what we want to live in the International Criminal Court told we don't care that you are head of the state, which is a Security Council member of the UN. We don't care that you are current head of the state which has nuclear weapons. If you committed war crimes, you will be persecuted. And this is a very important gesture which will have short term and long term perspective because look what's going on. Like we, we started with this horrible crimes committed by terrorists in Israel. Now we're speaking about horrible crimes which was committed by Russian troops in Ukraine, but Russian troops committed horrible war crimes, not just in Ukraine but in Chechnya, in Moldova, in Georgia, in Mali, in Syria, in Libya in other countries of the world, and they have never been punished. They start to believe they can do whatever they want. And I have one question, how we people living in 21 century will define a human beings, their lives, their freedom and their human dignity. Can we rely on the law or does only brutal force matter? And the answer to this question will define future, not only for people in Ukraine, the answer to this question will define our common future. So on that note, as a final question, Alexander, you're speaking to a room of very influential women. And as I mentioned in my introduction, it's now 600 days since the full scale invasion started. And I guess we risk reaching a point where people are maybe becoming numb to or maybe fatigued by news of the war, particularly with all the global competing crises. How can the women in this room help you keep the spotlight on the situation in Ukraine? I will start with that point that we Ukrainian women are fighting in this war in different positions. What do I mean? Ukrainian women joined Ukraine armed forces. More than 60,000 of Ukrainian women there, among them, my friend Andriana Susak who left her six year old son because she wants to fight and secure your son peaceful and democratic future. Ukrainian women take important political decisions. Ukrainian women document Russian war crimes. Ukrainian women coordinate civil initiatives. Ukrainian women are in the forefront for this battle in this battle for freedom and democracy. Because bravery has no gender and we need support from women, from other countries of the world because this war has a value dimension. And this is not just a war between two states, Russia and Ukraine. This is a war between two systems, authoritarianism and democracy. In Russia, women perform only applied role for them in family and in society. And in this way, it's become the basis for authoritarian Putin's regime. In this way, the private become a public because it's always a projection this relation between people in society and families, how their own government can behave towards people. And that is why in Norway, men and women have equal rights. In Afghanistan, women are prohibited to studies in university. And in Russia that domestic violence is decriminalized because once again, it's always a projection how government because their own people. And we Ukrainian women are fighting for our daughter in this war. We want our daughter never been in situation when they have someone that they have rights, that they are human beings and we need women's solidarity from other countries of the world. Alexandra, thank you so much for your incredible work and thank you for taking time to join us today. Ok. Um We have had some really I know heavy but also inspiring conversations today. Um I've got some exciting information to share with you all. Um bear with me a minute. Um First, a few very important. Thank you. Um Thank, thank you to all of our speakers over these last few days. We appreciate your contributions here at the summit and we also want to thank the entire MP W membership community um for joining us and for participating. It's been wonderful being here with all of you these last three days, this year's summit would not have been the same without the incredible contributions of our partners. Our premier partners, Deloitte Fidelity Investments, Hedrick and Struggles Insignia, Instacart Johnson and Johnson Salesforce TPG and Work day. And our partners a ARP Colgate Paul Olive and Gild. And I would like to once again thank my fellow co chairs, Fortune, senior writer, Maria Aspen, fortune, senior writer, Emma Hinchliff and Fortune Leader, Fortune leadership editor Ruth. Um um and our guest co chairs uh Maryam Vicar co-founder NYC, next and founder and managing partner of Maria MB and Malan Yen. Hello, um founder and CEO of Operator Collective and you do so many other things. So let's face it. Um Thank you so much for your work on the summit and your contribution to the MP W community as well. Um OK, so now some exciting news about upcoming events to please put on your calendar. Um First, for those of you who are joining us at the Fortune Global Forum in Abu Dhabi in November, please be sure to sign up for a very special, most powerful woman breakfast gathering on Wednesday, November 28th, featuring top executives and government leaders who will be conferring on ways to advance the global climate agenda. Uh Registration is complimentary for MP W members and then on January 17th, MP W members will gather again for the most powerful woman reception in Davos uh in partnership with Work Day and co hosted by Fortune editor in chief Allison Chantelle. So watch for additional information about that uh coming up and also very importantly, mark your calendars. You all get very, very busy. Um The 2024 fortune most powerful women's summit is going to be held a year from now, October 14th, 15th and 16th, uh right here at the Ritz Carlton and we hope you can join us for another fabulous MP W summit next year. Until then that is a wrap, safe travels, everybody. Thank you so much.

How do you slyly tell your boss that you need more than five weeks off to film a hit reality T.V. show where you could meet your future spouse in a 12-by-12-foot pod? Better yet, how do you explain that you won’t see your partner before actually saying “yes” to a marriage proposal, you’ll only have 28 days with them before you say “I do,” and you’re quitting your job to pursue an influencer career?  

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As influencers after the show has aired, we both made over a half a million dollars each each. My name is Patty. I am 32 years old and I'm Natalie Lee and I'm 31 years old and you may recognize us from Love is season two. I really enjoyed my job. I still kept my job throughout filming Love Is Blind. And also after, and even while the show was coming out, I also loved my job. And even though I quit that job, I can still use the things that I learned in technology in content creation today. Honestly, I did not tell my boss that I was going to go film a reality TV show because I, I just don't think that I would have gone over. Well, you didn't, no, I didn't have um I was just like, I accumulated my PT O days and I was just like, hey, I'm gonna be taking a long vacation and most of like the filming the second half of it, I literally just worked around it. So I didn't have to tell them. I was honest with my boss that I was doing a reality TV show I didn't say it was Love is Blind because I feel like that would have been a whole other conversation about, you know, getting engaged, sight unseen and things like that. We were able to work while filming Love Is Blind. So that made it much easier and more like palatable for my boss allowed me to take the time off for the show. They were like, what are you doing? They're like, you don't really seem like the type to do reality TV. And I was like, oh, it's like a marriage, a serious marriage show. And then so they didn't know it was Love Is Line and then it came out and they were like, uh you did this show on Netflix. Like we thought it was like a documentary about like this is why I didn't tell them. This is why I didn't tell them because I'm not trying to have that conversation. I won't lie. It did impact me professionally a lot. Like I remember being in meetings with my coworkers and my clients and they would like, you could tell, they want to ask questions and, you know, I'd be doing a presentation or something and they're like, so, uh how was it like in those, I'm like, what I thought we were talking about like this Excel Sheet that I spend like 18 hours on while the show was airing. I realized like, the impact that it had just on my life in general. And I really wanted to continue working. But I was realizing like kind of months into it that I wasn't able to do content creation and working full time and showing up at my 100% in both. So for me just to give it my own all into one career path, I had to pick a lane. And so I decided to take a risk and to quit my corporate job after love is aired. And you know, our social media following went up, I did see a huge shift when it came to my yearly salary. I am making as a content creator three times my corporate salary. And so it just made sense for me to pursue content creation full time. I would say 95% of my current income. It's from brand deals. Me and my brand manager don't want to overwhelm like my social media because you want to have a mix of like organic content and branded content. When you're representing a brand through your content, you want to make sure that it speaks to you. Sometimes it can be a very high deal like almost a salary as worth. But other times it's very low like only 2 to 3 K, but those smaller brand deals mean more to you because you are using them in your everyday life. When we saw the money that we can make from sponsorships and just from social media and putting content out there, that's when I started to think I could really go far with this. I won't share the brand, but I, the most I've gotten paid for a brand deal is around 50 K. And um that was pretty amazing and I used the brand and the fact that they also allowed me the creativity to create content for them of authentically using it. I thought that was so cool. The amount that I'm making now is exponentially higher than what I was before. I do invest a lot of it into stocks. I'm trying to educate myself more in the financial world and to figuring out how I can invest it, I want to be a homeowner soon. So even investing in property is a big deal for me and also saving for my environment, OK, here's how I save and invest my money first, it goes into my 401k, I max that out and then it goes into a back door Roth Ira and then I will invest in index funds. So the S and P 500 then I can from finance and then I will put a little bit into my high yield savings account or into the money market, my money market account. And then, yeah, and then I have nothing for myself and I are both daughters of immigrants. Something that we've talked about often is like the money that we save is really for our family to kind of give back and, and what they put in on us, like I know that sending me to college, but just like making sure that I got the best education growing up that took a lot on my family and to take me to violin lessons because they wanted me to have different skill sets. Like I know that that was a struggle for my family sometimes. And so for me, when I think about the money that I make as an influencer, it's not for me, it's for my family. Absolutely. I second that like, um my parents sacrificed so much and they left their entire family behind so that me and my could have an amazing life here. And so this is just like a testament to their sacrifice. It's really hard hearing their stories and how they grew up in the US is facing a lot of racism, but also just how poor they were in the country because they didn't know English and their parents didn't know English. I remember my dad told me that having cereal was a luxury. Like it was kind of seen as dessert when he was growing up. My parents immigrated from India. I was eight years old when I moved to America and it was the toughest transition ever. And I think I mentioned before, I was like extremely bullied. I couldn't even understand my teacher's English. Like it was like a hard dialect for me to pick up on. And so it was a hard transition I think it's really powerful, like coming from um a family of immigrants and just kind of the different values and skill sets that you do learn, you know, just the skill sets of survival, surviving in a country where you don't speak the language. Um And so you, it really helps you not take life for granted. I think the podcast has really given us a platform and an opportunity to really connect with people on a broader scale. We took a conversation and we made it into an idea and then uh everything kind of just came to fruition from there. We got the mics, we were like, let's just practice, let's let's just recap these episodes. And I think that really spearheaded us into such an amazing opportunity because now we have a platform to really speak our mind and also, you know, talk about a show that has um you know, spearheaded us into uh all these opportunities we edit, we produce the videos all on our own. And so it's been a huge learning opportunity and another opportunity for us to be entrepreneurs. We partnered with an agency. And right now we are um in the works of signing with a podcast network. So we would have never thought that our podcast could have gone this far, honestly hitting um number 20 on Apple podcast charts and also number 10 on Spotify Us podcast charts. I mean, that was insane. We did not realize um how successful the podcast can be. The show has really opened up a window of opportunities for me. I am a ted speaker. I'm an author. I feel like I have no idea what's gonna come in the future and it is a little scary, but it's also extremely exciting. I have no idea how long this content creation or influencer life is going to last. But as long as I show up authentically create good content for brands, I feel like I can keep it going. And if at any moment, I can't, I literally will go back to training, get well versed in technology again because that's where my roots are. I'm not an author, but I was mentioned in one page in D C's book. But for me, it is short term. Um I just can't see myself doing it forever and sharing my life. Um I'm a pretty private person and quite honestly, I really like being a management consultant. I like being able to work with different people, work in different industries, work with different clients and learn from them and you can't really do, do that as an influencer. So I really do kind of miss that world. I'm gonna take advantage of the money strike when the iron's hot, obviously. But I think within the next few years, I could see myself going back into the corporate world. I'm sure someone's gonna watch this interview and talk about how it was pile, right here and right here and you know what I mean? That sure. Yeah.

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