JUST ANNOUNCED: The New Era of Leadership 2024 Award Winners
the NEW
Era of
Leadership

Awards

A new kind of leader deserves a new kind of award.

The inaugural New Era of Leadership Awards recognize executive women and companies shaping the future of business. Powered by Chief, the largest network of executive women.


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The Winners

Our inaugural class of winners and honorees represent the creativity, innovation, empathy, purpose, and resilience that’s shaping the future of business.


Nominated by the public and carefully selected by our panel of esteemed judges, these are the exceptional executives and companies defining this new era of leadership.

Leading in Creativity

Andrea Brimmer

Chief Marketing and PR Officer, Ally Financial

Eunice Kim

Chief Product Officer, Netflix

Jessica Robertson

Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer, TOGETHXR

Kleona Mack

Chief Marketing Officer, Glossier

Kory Marchisotto

Chief Marketing Officer, e.l.f. Beauty

Kristie Magee Porcaro

Chief Strategy Officer, Operation Smile

Lisa McKnight

Executive Vice President, Chief Brand Officer, Mattel, Inc.

Olamide Olowe

CEO & Founder, Topicals

Sofia Hernandez

Global Head of Business Marketing, TikTok

Leading in Empathy

Christine Deputy

Chief People Officer, Pinterest

Danelle McCusker Rees

President, Human Resources and Operations Training, UPS

Daria Hall

Executive Vice President, Racial Justice & DEI Group Leader, Fenton Communications

Ilene Eskenazi

Chief Human Resources Officer, Chipotle

Jill Penrose

Chief People and Company Services Officer, J.M. Smucker

Katie Young

Senior Vice President of Store Operations, Starbucks

Laura Fuentes

Chief Human Resources Officer, Hilton

Tiffany R. Warren

Executive Vice President, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Sony Music Group

Toni Thompson

Chief Human Resources Officer, Etsy

Tracy Layney

Executive Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, Levi Strauss & Co.

Leading in Innovation

Anuradha Muralidharan

Chief Operating Officer & Board Member, Expensify

Betsy Fore

Co-Founder & Board Member, Natives Rising

Colette Kress

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Nvidia

Cynthia Stoddard

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Adobe

Elli Kaplan

CEO & Co-Founder, Neurotrack

Jane Yan

Chief Operating Officer & Chief Product Officer, LunaJoy Health

Kristen DiCerbo

Chief Learning Officer, Khan Academy

Lisa Su

CEO & Chair, Advanced Micro Devices

May Habib

CEO & Co-Founder, Writer

Leading in Purpose

Anusha Alikhan

Chief Communications Officer, Wikimedia Foundation

Cynthia Bissett Germanotta

President & Co-Founder, Born This Way Foundation

Deborah Garcia

Chief Development Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

DeNora Getachew

CEO, DoSomething.org

Esi Eggleston Bracy

Chief Growth and Marketing Officer, Unilever

Kate Ryder

CEO & Founder, Maven Clinic

Kate Williams

CEO, 1% for the Planet

Rene Jones

Partner & Chief of Social Impact, United Talent Agency

Reshma Saujani

CEO & Founder, Moms First

Thasunda Brown Duckett

CEO & President, TIAA

Leading in Resilience

Amber Garrison

Global Brand President, Origins, The Estée Lauder Companies

Debbie Dyson

CEO, OneTen

Dr. Kade Goepferd

Chief Education Officer & Medical Director of Gender Health Program, Children's Minnesota Hospital

Fidji Simo

CEO & Chair, Instacart

Jacquelyn Cameron

Chief Revenue Officer, Axios

Melissa Fowler

Chief Program Officer, National Abortion Federation

Meredith Stiehm

President, Writers Guild of America West

Mira Murati

Chief Technology Officer, OpenAI

Priscilla Almodovar

CEO, Fannie Mae

Winnie Ling

General Counsel & Head of Legal and People, Blend Labs, Inc.

Our inaugural class of winners and honorees represent the creativity, innovation, empathy, purpose, and resilience that’s shaping the future of business.


Nominated by the public and carefully selected by our panel of esteemed judges, these are the exceptional executives and companies defining this new era of leadership.

The Honorees

We're proud to acknowledge even more executive women and companies as honorees. Their contributions mark them as executives and companies to watch in the evolving landscape of leadership.

Category
Name
Title
Company
Purposeful
Co-Founder & CEO
Keep Company
Innovative
Chief Information Officer
Okta
Empathetic
Global Director & Head of Retail Security
Apple
Creative
Co-Founder & President
LTK
Empathetic
Co-Chair
Jenner & Block LLC
Innovative
SVP & Chief Marketing and Customer Officer
Webex by Cisco
Empathetic
Vice President of Business and Culture Transformation
Harvard Business Publishing
Creative
CEO & Co-Founder
Good American
Purposeful
CEO & Founder
Grant Sidney and Uncle Nearest
Empathetic
Executive Vice President of Human Resources & Chief Diversity Officer
Lowe’s
Resilient
Commissioner
National Women's Soccer League
Empathetic
Chief Diversity Officer
New York City Department of Education
Innovative
Chief Product Officer
DYPER
Purposeful
CEO
Migrant Clinicians Network
Resilient
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Colgate Palmolive Company
Innovative
Founder and CEO
Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment
Resilient
President, Entertainment and Beauty & Style Group
Dotdash Meredith
Innovative
Chief Technical Operations Officer
Generate Biomedicines
Purposeful
President
Fund for the City of New York
Resilient
CEO
Momofuku
Resilient
President
American Bar Association
Creative
Chief Strategy Officer
Pattern
Purposeful
Chief Diversity Officer
Google
Innovative
CEO & Co-Founder
Vertical Harvest Farms
Empathetic
Senior Vice President Customer Care and Client Delivery
Mr. Cooper Group
Purposeful
Chief Purpose and Inclusion Officer
PwC
Resilient
Head of Strategic Investments, Valiant Labs
Nike
Empathetic
General Manager, Global Health and Wellbeing
Microsoft
Purposeful
Senior Vice President, Digital Partnerships, Retail & Commerce
Mastercard
Resilient
Senior Director, Office of Equality
Salesforce

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