Power Panels: Navigating Career Pivots
Join us for "Power Panels: Navigating Career Pivots," an inspiring conversation hosted by Georgia Rounder at Fabrik DUMBO in Brooklyn. We'll kick things off with casual networking, giving you the chance to connect with fellow professionals and panelists before diving into the main event.
Our panel discussion will feature trailblazing leaders who have successfully navigated major career pivots. Whether you're considering a new industry, stepping into a different function, or exploring an entirely new path, this panel will offer candid insights, lessons learned, and actionable advice to help you take the leap with confidence.
Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00PM: Networking
7:00 - 8:00PM: Panel Discussion
8:00 - 8:30PM: Networking
MODERATOR:
Kara Tullman: Kara is thrilled to be moderating the first rendition of Power Panels. Kara spent the first several years of her career in multichannel marketing, designing media plans for global advertisers on Condé Nast publications and scaling a company in tech from 120 to 1000 employees through strategic brand building. A mix of curiosity and pandemic existentialism promoted a career pivot, landing her in Sweden to obtain a Masters in Applied Cultural Analysis. She now works as a cultural researcher helping brands answer the big questions, like “what does modern girlhood look like?” and “what makes a better life at home?”
PANELISTS:
Allison Yamamoto: Allison is a former LinkedIn engineering manager turned product leader, now founder in the women’s health space. Her career spans high-growth roles across tech and healthcare—from building growth products at Oscar Health to leading product at a climate tech startup and serving as fractional CPO at a behavioral health company. With each pivot—across function, stage, and industry—she’s leaned into curiosity, impact, and values-alignment. She now helps active women navigate hormonal health challenges through an evidence-driven company she founded at the intersection of tech and care.
Brittany Blumenthal: Brittany is a former in-house brand designer turned entrepreneur with experience in both brand and web design. She began her career at creative agencies supporting clients like BMW and Macy’s, then helped evolve the brand at Justworks and later led brand design at Superhuman. Now, she’s the founder of Delightful, a design studio that partners with brands focused on whole-body health to help them show up with clarity and authenticity. Her creative work also includes food styling and writing — personal outlets that reflect her commitment to intentional living. After experiencing the impact of functional medicine in her lifelong autoimmune journey, Brittany began sharing her learnings through vulnerable, creative storytelling. She explores the intersection of food, design, well-being, and joy through her newsletter, Tastemaker — a space created to inspire and empower others to take control of their health and their lives.
Samantha Kahn: Sam is living proof that every career transition doesn’t mean starting from scratch. With a path that spans beauty, entertainment, and veterinary medicine—and roles from marketing to performing to operations to branding—she’s learned how to carry forward the best of each chapter into the next. Her ability to translate experience across industries led her to employer brand roles at HBO, WarnerMedia, Warner Bros. Discovery, and now VEG ER for Pets, where she leads employer branding and helps tell the stories of people doing unexpected things in their careers. Her approach to change is equal parts practical and creative, offering inspiration and practical wisdom to anyone reimagining their career while honoring where they’ve been.
Sherene Strausberg: Sherene is a unique creative, combining her experience in film, music, and sound engineering with graphic design and illustration to create animated videos for her clients at the company she founded, 87th Street Creative. Having won a national composition competition in high school, she was awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Indiana University School of Music, where she completed two bachelor’s degrees in four years. Film scores she wrote in her first career, as a film composer, have been heard on AMC, Spike TV, and Netflix. Her passion project, the short, animated film “Cool For You”, which she animated and scored, has been accepted to over 40 film festivals around the world. 87th Street Creative has done projects for Walmart, American Express, and Calendly. Sherene received an Emmy-Nomination for Art Direction in 2022. She lives in Port Washington with her husband and 3 children.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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