Vicki W. Kramer has more than 30 years of leadership experience with nonprofit organizations, workplace issues, management, human relations and women’s leadership issues. Prior to establishing her consulting firm in 1996, she co-founded and co-directed Options, Inc., a nonprofit career and human resource consulting service. She has appeared widely on radio and television, and has been consulted regularly by journalists on employment and women’s leadership issues. She has also written regular columns for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Philadelphia Business Journal. She led a national study of women on Fortune 1000 corporate boards, housed at The Wellesley Centers for Women, and co-authored an article on the results for the Harvard Business Review.

She was a commissioner on the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations and a founding director and officer of Women’s Way, the nation’s first women’s funding federation. She served on the board and is a member of the Forum of Executive Women, where she has co-chaired the Executive Suites Committee, working to increase the representation of women on corporate boards and in executive positions. She represents the Forum on the board of InterOrganization Network (ION) – a national network of 14 regional executive women’s organizations collaborating to advance women to positions of power in the business world. She serves on the board of the Women’s Law Project and the Pennsylvania Prison Society.

She was on the faculties of Haverford College and Swarthmore College for seven years before founding Options. She earned her BA from Wellesley College, her MA from Radcliffe College, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.