Elissa Ellis Sangster | Source | CEO at Forte Foundation
Elissa Ellis Sangster
Elissa serves as CEO of Forté and brings to the role extensive knowledge of issues affecting women's abilities to seek, prepare for and attain business leadership positions, drawn from her prior experience as Assistant Dean and Director of the MBA Program at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. There she oversaw all activities related to the full-time McCombs MBA program including marketing, admissions, student services, and alumni relations. Before McCombs, Elissa was Assistant Director of the MBA Program at Texas A&M University’s Mays School of Business.
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Forte Foundation
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‘A steady climb toward 50-50’: women’s MBA enrollment hits historic 42%
New research from the Forté Foundation reveals five schools have achieved gender parity, with 34 enrolling at least 40% women
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There’s a lot of places you could go to get an MBA. There’s a lot of pathways to the top, but we know that the women who are pursuing business leadership, that the MBA is a significant pathway into those top companies, top jobs that have the top pay, and that’s important to make sure that there’s equitable representation of women in business school.
