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Jennifer Sherman

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, FEDERAL SIGNAL CORP

Search every verified Jennifer Sherman interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2011 TEDxFiDiWomen talk, Jennifer Sherman discussed her career path and perspectives on women in the workplace. She recounted her upbringing in various countries, including a period during the first Gulf War when she helped at the American consulate in Jerusalem. Sherman also described leaving a technical field after graduating, noting that she valued the legitimacy of her degree but chose to pursue a different path. Sherman's talk addressed statistics on women's representation in corporate leadership, stating that women hold a smaller percentage of management and executive roles compared to their share of the workforce. She suggested that corporate structures may not align with how women are culturally or biologically inclined to operate, and she questioned whether traditional measures of success, such as percentages of women in power, are the most meaningful. Sherman proposed alternative metrics, such as evaluating companies by employee happiness and job satisfaction, and emphasized the importance of respecting the diverse roles women play in the workplace.

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