Women In STEM - Andrea Mohamed

QuantumBloom COO & Co-Founder Andrea Mohamed shares data that should make every leader stop and think: 76% of high-performing women get negative feedback on performance reviews. Only 2% of high-performing men do. And the vast majority of the negative feedback that the high-performing women get is about their personalities. Andrea's journey from rural Michigan to a Duke MBA to tech leadership wasn't just about overcoming personal barriers, it was about recognizing that the problem isn't the women leaving STEM careers. It's the environment pushing them out. The path forward to counter a massive STEM talent shortage requires courage over comfort, authenticity that builds trust and long-term vision beyond quarterly earnings. Her question to all of us isn't whether we can afford to change, it's whether we can affort not to.