She drove a 576% sales increase - from a role the complaint says nobody cared about
She had 36 years at IBM, a PhD, a Harvard MBA, and four patents. Then she got sick.
Within days of returning from an eight-day hospitalization in December 2024, the worker alleges IBM stripped her of her management team, demoted her to an individual contributor, and launched what the complaint describes as nearly two years of progressive marginalization.
The lawsuit was filed in New York federal court on November 9, 2026. It accuses IBM of age, sex, and disability discrimination - plus retaliation on all three counts - under the ADEA, Title VII, and the ADA.
According to the filing, the worker joined IBM in 1988 and spent three decades in director-level and executive roles spanning marketing, cloud, strategy, accessibility, and venture capital. She holds a PhD in Cognitive and Experimental Psychology and an IBM-sponsored MBA from Harvard Business School, the complaint states.
She conceived and launched what the filing describes as an award-winning global training and certification program that collected eight major corporate education awards in three years. The worker herself earned nine industry awards, including a 2022 Globee Business Award for "Female Executive of the Year, Education or Training." Four IBM patents credit her as inventor.
In March 2024, the complaint says, a senior executive persuaded her to join IBM's Learning Group with a promise: she would...
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