Pavithra Mohan

Megan O’Connor, the cofounder and CEO of education startup Clark, got her first taste of professional coaching when she joined the Human Ventures startup studio. “Sometimes...

When Indra Nooyi resigned from PepsiCo last summer, she had spent 12 years as CEO–the rare woman to sit atop a major corporation. Nooyi, the company’s first and only female CEO, had been promoted to the position after six years as PepsiCo’s CFO. But like many of her peers, when her tenure was up, Nooyi was replaced by a man.

At the moment...