Game-changing female leadership is a topic that is close to my heart, and I’m thrilled to announce a new annual list at CNBC, Changemakers: Women transforming business. The list will highlight 40 trailblazing women who have accomplished meaningful achievements in the past year, women from companies and organizations across all sectors of the economy, including philanthropic organizations.

Female leaders are still rare — about 10% of Fortune 500 CEOs, while female founders draw about 2% of venture capital dollars. When interviewing over 120 women and by diving into hundreds of studies on leadership for my bestselling book, “When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them,” published last October, I found that the women who do defy those odds and succeed are not just exceptional, they also often are leading and disrupting business in ways that are valuable for everyone to learn from. This was augmented by what I learned in months of book events around the country: Women leaders, I’ve found, tend to succeed not because they adapt to traditional male archetypes of leadership but because they reject those norms and lead with their own authentic, unique strengths.

Read more at: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/nominate-a-female-leader-for-cnbcs-debut-changemakers-list.html