Leadership

Female Leadership Making an Impact Meet 100 exceptional women leaders who are making their mark by Eddie Lee & Carolyn M. Brown Executive Woman is shining a light on talented, high-potential women leaders with this fourth annual Power 100 list. The list highlights 100 extraordinary women on the...

SAIC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley was raised to prioritize service. Today, that includes serving as a role model and guide for aspiring women leaders. By Jackie Krentzman When the $7.5 billion technology and defense contracting firm Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) named Toni Townes-Whitley as CEO in 2023, she became...

Forging Equity for Women Through Education On a trip to Ghana from her hometown of Los Angeles when she was nine years old, Zuriel Oduwole noticed many young girls selling wares on the street. As they weaved in between cars to make sales and collect money, Oduwole...

Salary transparency may help close the gender pay gap—and benefit companies along the way By Kimberly Olson Hannah Williams asks strangers to share their salaries and then broadcasts those figures to the 1.3 million followers of her TikTok channel, Salary Transparent Street. To date, more than 5,000 people—cloud...

CVS Health’s Tanya Clark Robinson is shaping culture and driving change By Lydia T. Blanco In a society where, as management consultant Peter Drucker said, “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” Tanya Clark Robinson is invested in fostering equitable environments where people can thrive through intentional connections. Clark...

Stay Open to Unexpected Opportunities Cisco Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Gloria Goins wanted to be a lawyer from the time she was six. She also aspired to become a judge. She’d achieved the first goal and was working toward the second when her father became...