Often a catalyst for organizational change, now, as the Founder of Untapped Potential Inc., she is engineering social change for women impacting gender equity, diversity and work-life balance. She is the recipient of 2018 CT Woman Of Innovation Award, 2019 CT Entrepreneur Award, 2016 reSET Incubator Award, and 2015 SBA InnovateHER Award.

She has championed equality for women as a Keynote Speaker for Community Economic Development Fund, Panelist at sheLeadsTECH and led seminars at  Hartford Conference for Women.  

Candace holds a MS in Business from Boston University, MS Certificate in Manufacturing Systems and BS in Optical Engineering from University of Rochester. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children. 

Untapped Potential Inc. provides a path for work-life success for top female talent by preparing and personally connecting women to local, curated high-caliber roles with flexible schedules. Often our talent opted-out for caregiving.  For business, we deliver hard-to-reach talent to the marketplace.  

A CT-Benefit Corp, UP impacts the wage gap, gender equity and overcomes the motherhood penalty. 

 

Many highly talented women take time away from their careers to raise a family.  These women have a great deal of difficulty returning to the workforce with roles and salary commensurate with their abilities.  UP's work is to provide networking, contacts, and placements to help resolve the issue of returning to work on gender equality.  This has been made immensely more complicated and more important by the Pandemic.

Prior to Covid, the discussion of the issue was something like this:

 

 

Post Covid we are now seeing headlines like:

 

 

We can't afford to lose the progress we have made in gender diversity and equity as well as the loss of talent that companies need.  Currently only 40% of women return to full-time work and 23% find part-time jobs.

 

 

UP's Mission is to impact gender equity in senor roles, diversity, and the motherhood penalty.

 

 

The problem is:

 

 

What UP does to help with the problem is to:

Currency reflects the need to be knowledgeable and current with the changes in language and skills.

 

 

UP provides seminars, networking events, and internship like placements to bring women who have been out of the workforce up to speed.  Coaching and mentorship is part of their service.

 

 

One of the methods that use is a "Flexreturn" which allows women to start working at less than full-time, completing a project for the company.  The slide shows a number of companies that have been receptive to UP placements.

 

 

The slide below shows some of UP's success stories.