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Chief is an exclusive network aimed at empowering top women in leadership roles. It helps them enhance their leadership skills, increase their impact, and support others in their journey. Founded in 2019 by Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan, Chief's goal is to elevate more women to senior positions and ensure they remain there. In 2021, the organization was honored as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, boasting a diverse community of 20,000 high-ranking executives from across the United States.

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From the West Wing to the C-Suite: The Rise of the Chief of Staff

2 months ago | chief.com | Lindsey Galloway

Watch any political show, from The West Wing to Veep, and you know the Chief of Staff is a pivotal power player. But the high-stakes role is no longer primarily reserved for politics and the military — more corporate organizations are adding the position to support the C-Suite. The role has seen a 30% jump since 2019 in net headcount, driven in large part by its growth at smaller companies, according to research by Chief of Staff Network.
Chief Holiday Gift Guide: Shop Favorites From 25 Diverse- and Women-Owned Brands

Dec 4, 2024 | chief.com | Audrey Goodson

Holiday shopping can be overwhelming. Make it easier — and more rewarding — by pledging to purchase from women-owned brands. You’ll provide much-needed funds to companies that often struggle to access the cash they need. Today, 14 million women-owned businesses make up 39.1% of all U.S. businesses, but research shows that women receive fewer, smaller loans with higher interest rates.
Why This CEO Avoided ‘Growth At All Costs’ To Build an Enduring Business

Nov 25, 2024 | chief.com | Audrey Goodson

When Karla Gallardo launched her lifestyle brand Cuyana in 2011, she hoped her belief in “buying fewer, better” would resonate with a generation of women who had grown weary of fast fashion. But the ethos didn’t just inspire the brand’s line of long-lasting leather goods and more.
The Chief Diversity Officer: 'Overburdened, Under-Resourced, and Unempowered'

Nov 24, 2024 | chief.com | Lindsey Galloway

No C-Suite executive has faced more headwinds in recent years than the Chief Diversity Officer. Not only has the term “DEI” been weaponized as a negative, but budgets have been slashed and entire departments have been laid off or significantly downsized everywhere from Meta to Google to Zoom. It marks a rapid turnaround from just a few years ago, when in the wake of sociopolitical justice movements like Black Lives Matter, a majority of Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies hired for the role.
Connie Chung on Conquering Imposter Syndrome: ‘I Convinced Myself I Was One of the Guys’

Sep 25, 2024 | chief.com | Courtney Connley

As the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News, and the first Asian American to anchor any network news broadcast for CBS, NBC, and ABC, Connie Chung has carved out a legendary career path for herself in media. So much so that she inspired a generation of Asian American parents to name their daughters after her. “I was flabbergasted,” Chung says when a young woman named Connie emailed her to do a New York Times story about the influence of her name and her career.
Mentorship & Sponsorship in Business - Mentoring at Work

Sep 16, 2024 | chief.com | Their Employees

In this series, Chief speaks with some of the most powerful members in our network about that single moment when they bet on themselves — and won.
Chief | Women Are Making Big Gains in the C-Suite — But It’s Not as Promising As It Seems

Sep 16, 2024 | chief.com | Courtney Connley

First the good news: Women’s representation has increased at every level across corporate America over the last 10 years, showing what seems to be positive signs of growth and opportunity for women at work. Now, the sobering news: At the current pace of growth, it’s estimated that women won’t reach parity in corporate America for another 48 years.
Chief | How the CFO Became a C-Suite Mastermind — and What It Means for Women Leaders

Sep 11, 2024 | chief.com | Lindsey Galloway

In Chief’s new series, The New C-Suite, we examine how rapidly-shifting workplace norms and technologies have impacted today’s top corporate power players — and what it means for executive women. While parity in the C-Suite has been challenging to come by, there’s one traditional role where women are making headway. The Chief Financial Officer role has continued to see women make real gains in representation in recent years.
Too Opinionated, Too Abrasive, Too Nice: Here’s Why Empty Feedback Doesn’t Help High-Performing Women

Sep 4, 2024 | chief.com | Lindsey Galloway

In an ideal world, performance reviews would offer clear, consistent, and actionable feedback — but as most professional women have experienced, these reviews are often landmines of gendered language, unfair assumptions, and subjectivity. New studies only confirm the ongoing problems. In one analysis of more than 23,000 performance reviews by HR tech company Textio, nearly one third of women were described as “opinionated,” in stark contrast to the only 4% of men who received the same feedback.
Zoox CEO Aicha Evans: Why It’s OK to ‘Take a Little Bit Longer’ in Tech

Aug 20, 2024 | chief.com | Katy Brennan

While other autonomous vehicle companies have raced to get their models on the market — with mixed results — groundbreaking robotaxi company Zoox’s CEO Aicha Evans believes in taking time to get it right. "Ours is a vertically integrated, safety-critical product where you’re always as good as your last release," she explains.