Pepper Foster Pulse: Sara Juran – Women in Corporate Leadership

Sara Juran, VP of Advice and Planning Solutions at Thrivent Financial, shares her journey as a woman leader in a male-dominated industry, offering candid insights into overcoming unconscious bias, fostering resilience, and creating opportunities for the next generation of leaders.

Share This Post

On this episode, Jamie and Nate sit down with Sara Juran, VP of Advice and Planning Solutions at Thrivent Financial. Sara shares her journey as a woman leader in a male-dominated industry, offering candid insights into overcoming unconscious bias, fostering resilience, and creating opportunities for the next generation of leaders.

Tune in to hear Sara’s advice on building confidence, mentoring future leaders, and how her team’s innovative approach earned industry recognition.

Listen to the podcast here

 

Share This Post

Read more success stories & insights from Pepper Foster.

Nate Caskey sits down with Virajita Singh, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), to explore what it takes to lead meaningful transformation within a century-old, globally respected museum.
Damian Smith joins Nate Caskey to discuss the technological, geo-political, and social disruptions that are already impacting corporate America and what leaders should do today to prepare.
There is a critical paradox at the heart of the Gen AI revolution. While a select group of organizations are realizing immense value, a new MIT study, "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025," finds that a staggering 95% of enterprise AI pilot programs are failing to deliver measurable financial returns. This apparent contradiction is not a flaw in the data but a fundamental insight into the current maturity of the market...
Right at the bottom of the NY Times Dealbook email that went out to subscribers on Saturday August 16 there was a small, almost throwaway piece about some surveys on AI adoption and ROI in business. The survey results show that AI is on the same trajectory as Dot Com was back in the late nineties.

Contact Pepper Foster

We’ve been there before and we’re ready to walk you through it. Get in touch with us to start the conversation and see how we can help.