Negotiating Your Equity

​Following Maxine Minter's session breaking down the basics of equity, please join us for this follow-up with Megan Karsh, who'll be walking us through the best ways to negotiate your equity package. Ever wondered what the best ways were to negotiate your package and ensure you're receiving the best offer for you? Well, this is your time to ask all those questions you've always wanted answers to!

​Speaker Bio

​Megan established The (em) Collective, a coaching & training venture applying lessons from international peacebuilding about collaboration, leadership, and power dynamics to everyday work culture. She’s an expert in identity-based conflict and developed The (em) Co’s approach while working on conflict transformation & institution-building in Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, Mali, Syria and elsewhere for the UN and Stanford. Clients include Google, Slack, Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and universities. Megan has been interviewed by Forbes, Refinery29, The Modern Guide to Equality, and Women of Silicon Valley about culture, power, and equity.

In addition to The (em) Co, Megan teaches negotiation at Stanford Law and is a conflict consultant to the United Nations and Forest Whitaker's Peace and Development Initiative. She is on the US Dept of State's Roster of Fulbright Specialists as an expert in education systems design.

Megan holds a J.D. from Stanford Law and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Art History from Oberlin College. She lives in sunny Ojai and pops up regularly in San Francisco and around the globe like a modern Carmen Sandiego.