She is the creator of the Temin Index, the largest known inventory of #MeToo accusations since sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against Bill Cosby.
Prior to founding Temin and Company in 1997, Temin ran marketing, strategy, external affairs and crisis management for: General Electric Capital;[4][5] Schroders in the US; Wertheim Schroder;[6] Scudder, Stevens and Clark; Citicorp Investment Bank; and Columbia Business School,[5] where she founded their magazine, Hermes.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio,[5][6] Temin is an honors graduate of Swarthmore College,[6] where she was a member of the board of managers[11] until her resignation in September 2020, citing an on-going lawsuit against her and her company as the reason for her stepping down;[12] Both Temin and the company denied the claims in the lawsuit and it was ultimately dismissed without a finding of any wrongdoing by any party.
[13] Temin had previously served as chair of the College’s Long Range Planning Committee on Visibility and Leadership in Higher Education.
She is featured in several books, including Wall Street Women by Anne Fisher (Alfred A. Knopf, 1990),[32] A Woman’s Guide to Successful Negotiating: How to Convince, Collaborate, & Create Your Way to Agreement by Lee E. Miller and Jessica Miller (McGraw-Hill, 2002),[5] The Board Game: How Smart Women Become Corporate Directors by Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire (Angel City Press, 2013),[33] Stiletto Network by Pamela Ryckman (AMACOM, 2013),[34] and Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way Americas Works (Time Books, 2016).