Margaret

Margaret

A loan of $25,000 helps a 3x Kiva borrower hire a new team member and implement a new corporate training program!

Margaret

Margaret's story

I founded PepTalkHer after my own experience of inequality during my time as a journalist (remind me to spill the details sometime...!)

I built the free PepTalkHer App & launched it as a Vogue event in 2019. It helps make performance review time easy. The prompts help you track success, build confidence & negotiate. (Think of it as a FitBit - but for your career)

The results of been extraordinary - from a $4 an hour raises to a whopping $84,000 raise.

I serve on several boards and am a passionate angel investor. I focus on tech businesses and teams with a female and/or under represented founder. I love doing good things with good people.

In my former life, I was a foreign correspondent. I spent more than a decade working as a journalist for BBC World, CNBC & Dateline. My films won New York Festival TV & Film Awards, UN Media Awards, a Walkley Award & a Logie nomination.

I've interviewed Brad Pitt on the red carpet, Bashar Al Assad in his Palace in Damascus & I once had the fun task of speaking on stage after Obama.

I lecture at Columbia University & Barnard College on negotiation & confidence. I also speak globally at events like Dreamforce, Vogue Codes & Nico Rosberg’s Greentech In Berlin.

I'm a Tory Burch Fellow & was the recipient of a grant from Sara Blakley's Spanx Foundation.

Before founding PepTalkHer, I was VP Business Development & Content Partnerships for the Financial Times, working with brands like Barclays & IBM to create high impact content for C Suite Executives.

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