NCWIT Pacesetters

Lucy Sanders, NCWIT CEO

Moving the National Needle for Women and Computing

CE21 PI Meeting, January 2013

A Full Pipeline Challenge

Wishful Thinking Won’t Solve This

Women’s Participation in U.S. Talent Pool: It’s a Systems Problem

Solution: Recruit from New Talent Pools, Increase Focus on Retention

Drive Model Down to Individual Organizations for Action

What Gets Measured Gets Done

It Helps to Have the Boss on Board

It’s a Long Haul, Not a Sprint

Benchmark with Like Minded Peers

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

NCWIT Unites Change Leaders, Creates Resources & Drives Action

Join a National Cohort of Peers

Quantify a “Net New Women” Goal

Form Implementation Teams Led by Executive Champions

Report Progress Towards Goal

Engage in Public Advocacy

Pacesetters Pilot Cohort Beat Its Goal Adding 1,685 “Net New Women”

2013 Pacesetters Cohort

www.ncwit.org/aalucinda.sanders@ncwit.org