Support Relauncher Owned and Managed Businesses

We want to recognize and promote relauncher owned and managed businesses by featuring links to their websites. Please submit your website link, a short description of your business and your name and title. You must be a relauncher (taken a career break of a year or longer) to qualify!

A note to all: Listing on this column is not an endorsement of the business itself, nor does it indicate the listing has gone through any vetting process to assess the quality of offerings.

Here’s the list!

Accenture The technology and strategy consulting firm hired back Kathy Ritchie and Terres Van Bibber in a job share after a six year career break.

Aging Grace is a personal services provider for seniors, helping seniors maintain their independence and control by assisting them to keep records, pay bills, and manage insurance claims. Founded by Relauncher and mother of five, Kathy Sprau.

Bentley University hired Debra Kennedy as the Assistant Director of their Women’s Leadership Institute and Executive Education programs after two career breaks.

Bentonville/BellaVista Chamber of Commerce (Arkansas), Relauncher Tammy Thurow is
Vice President, Marketing and Membership

Center for Work Life Law Relauncher Consuela Pinto is General Counsel. The Center for WorkLife Law is a research and advocacy center that seeks to eliminate employment discrimination against mothers and other family caregivers such as adult children of aging parents. WorkLife Law is based at UC Hastings College of the Law and is directed by professor and author Joan C. Williams.

Citigroup hired Catherine Tanelli after she returned from a five year career break overseas.

Daily Grommet:  Founder/CEO Jules Pieri is a relauncher and she has hired relaunchers including Barbara Gordon.

Davis Advertising hired relauncher Amy Cadugan as a media buyer.

Designer Shoes.com: The largest women's shoe retailer in the world specializing exclusively in hard to find sizes “for women who leave a larger footprint." Relauncher Barbara Thornton, Founder and Owner

Extend Fertility The egg banking firm hired relauncher Marla Libraty as it’s VP of marketing.
Geek Mommy : Relauncher Lucretia Pruitt's company and blog. She's now Director of Social Media for Collective Bias. 

Glissade Design: Website Design, Development and Maintenance. Relauncher Betsy Blagdon is the Founder (Betsy is our Technical Director here at iRelaunch!)

Harvard Business School Press hired relauncher Jessica Avery as Business Director, in a flexible, part time, senior role.

Hebrew Senior Life hired relauncher Suzanne Offit as Rabbi.  Hebrew Senior Life is "a system integrating senior health care, housing, research and teaching" based in Roslindale, MA.
Hooray for Books: “Creative Classes Where Kids Look, Cook & Devour Good Books.” We teach children to read with a side of cooking and a cup of humor! Owned by mother of five Mary Murphy, former teacher, relaunched as Founder and President of Hooray for Books.  Hopkinton, MA.

Howard Ecker & Company, Commercial Real Estate Advisors and Consultants (they help companies find real estate). Relauncher Michele Brown is Managing Director of their New York office.

Junior League Former management consultant and relauncher Bonnie Carter is President of the Junior League of Montclair -Newark. Junior League is known for offering high level, resume worthy, volunteering opportunities.
 
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management hosted our first Career Relaunch Forum in the Northern suburbs of Chicago. Then they hired Carrie Buchwald, whom they met at the Forum. Carrie relaunched after a 7 year career break. They also hired relauncher Linda Stolberg.

Marjorie Stockford is a consultant for non-profits and an author. Her consulting work focuses on program evaluation, strategic planning and temporary staffing. She began her professional career in 1978 when she was hired by AT&T as a result of its landmark sex discrimination settlement with the US Government and subsequently wrote THE BELLWOMEN: THE STORY OF THE LANDMARK AT&T SEX DISCRIMINATION CASE.

Make It Better.net the online and print community resource for Chicago's North Shore. Founded by 10 relaunchers who call themselves the "Kitchen Cabinet". 

Martin Analytics is relauncher Sally Martin’s market research consultancy.

MIT Career Reengineering Program - MIT’s Associate Director of Academic Programs, Professional Education is a Relauncher! Dawna Levenson took a five year career break after leaving Accenture and then returned to MIT. Their Career Reengineering Program helps engineers and those in tech fields, return to the workforce.
 
Marcy Tivol, Logo Design:  founded by relauncher Marcy Tivol

MommyBiz.net: Business Cards, Elaine Milnes, Founder. (yes, relauncher moms, you should get a business card for yourself)

Mommy Brain Reports: Founder Monica Brady took a six year career break.  Searchable product review blog.

Montage Legal Group: Montage Legal Group is a group of experienced contract attorneys who have left law firms to achieve a work-life balance. Our group now includes attorneys who graduated from top law schools like Harvard Law, Berkeley School of Law and UCLA School of Law, as well as attorneys who previously worked at firms like Latham & Watkins, Snell & Wilmer, Payne & Fears, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, Foley & Lardner, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, and Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith. We also have an adjunct legal research and writing professor and a former Orange County Superior Court judicial referee who is an author of six novels. The qualities that we all have in common is that we are exceptional attorneys who decided that big law firm "life" was not for us, primarily because we wanted flexibility so that work can fit more seamlessly into life and family. Our attorneys frequently have other obligations, careers or passions - such as teaching, writing or caring for children - but still want challenging legal work. Some of our attorneys are mothers who stay at home with young children, but want to remain active in the legal market, and to continue to refine their skills. Other attorneys have worked with Montage Legal Group while in transition between jobs resulting from economy-driven downsizing. The MLG attorney network provides outstanding service to all types of law firms and in-house counsel that are in need of the highest quality legal work on a temporary basis. Our attorneys work primarily from home on an hourly basis for other law firms who need a cost-effective way to manage their overflow of work. Our attorneys enable other law firms to provide their clients with superior end results, even if their clients are on a limited budget.

Naughty Betty: Greeting Cards. A funky greeting card company created by two moms with stellar advertising backgrounds, Christine Montaquila and Courtney Weinberg.  Offered nationwide.

Passman and Kaplan: This D.C. law firm hired relauncher Amy Beckett after a 17 year career break!
Pink Olive Boutique: Whimsical New York City boutique.  Relauncher Susan Nam consults for them on marketing and operations.
Position U 4 College:  Relauncher Kris Hintz set up this college advisory destination site.
Rising Tide Capital helps inner city entrepreneurs gain business skills and funding for their ventures. Rising Tide CEO Alfa Demmellash is committed to engage relaunchers as “strategic volunteers” in this process and provides references to those volunteers when they return to work.

Sherri Sklar Strategies Software Marketing consulting firm founded by relauncher Sherri Sklar.

Softeach technical training experts hired relauncher Janice Copley after her six year career break.
Step Into Art is the non-profit started by relauncher Abby Rischin to provide art education programs to children in the Boston area.

Susannah Abbott Marketing and Communications: Freelance copywriting and marketing consultancy founded by relauncher Susannah Abbott.
Teen Life Boston:  Summer and Community Service Opportunities for Teens in Boston area. Relaucher Marie Schwartz is the Founder

Val's List:   Playlists for Busy People. Valslist discovers the best tunes – including new artists, vintage oldies, covers and world music – and assembles them into unique playlists to make it easy. Founder is relauncher Val Haller.

Voice overs/Hey Blunder Woman Tanya Eby spent 10 years in fundraising and voiceover work before calling it quits to stay home with her kids for three years. Then she began doing audio narrations on a consulting basis and is also a novelist.