I was chatting with a friend about professional development recently, and he brought up something that really irks both of us—nonprofit executives that are reluctant to provide mentorship or even to start a conversation with junior staff about their career goals. If I invest in this rising star, the thinking goes, then she will go get a better job and my organization will lose her talent. Our career development efforts will be wasted. This attitude does no one any good. Here's why.

On June 21, 2016, more than 1,000 attendees gathered at the Bay Area Women’s Summit to create meaningful solutions to some of the most critical challenges faced by women in the region.