Jennifer Kerns already has plans to travel to Mexico, California, and Cape Cod. After more than 30 years in the tech industry, Kerns, 60, finally hung up her hat in March. Most recently, she worked at GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary, as a program manager and before that, she was a contractor at Microsoft for 25 years.
Kerns was already making plans to retire, but the reasons to step away from her role began to pile up in the months leading up to her decision. Nearly her entire leadership chain departed over the course of a couple years. Her youngest child was about to age out of her family’s insurance plan. And then there was AI, which became the “sole focus” of the company, she said.
