Listening as a Super Power

Pallavi Verma, senior managing director, US – Midwest for Accenture is responsible for overseeing the company’s business across 13 states including: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota...

Fierce Arts Advocate, Profound Listener

President & CEO of United States Artists, a national arts funding organization based in Chicago, IL, and former Executive Director of The Contemporary, a nomadic and non-collecting art museum in Baltimore, MD, for four years.

Authentic Leader, Happily Imperfect Mom

The recipient of an Edward R. Murrow award and 10 Emmy Awards, Teri Arvesu currently serves as VP and Director of Content for Univision Chicago. Under her leadership, Univision Chicago became the first Spanish language...

Risk Taker, Cyber Superstar

Danielle Brown's career began with taking a job at DuPont, leading a major transformation program to modernize the Dupont IT environment, and eventually serving as Global Chief Information Officer for Crop Protection, a $3.2 billion...

Sustainable Public Health Advocate

Dr. Suzet McKinney served as lead public health official for Chicago's response to the H1N1 outbreak, lead public health official in response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, and has been keeping Chicago safe for...

Business Strategist, Political Activist

After a visit with her father, Christie Hefner's life took a turn and she decided to enter the family business, Playboy Enterprises. During Hefner's tenure, she restored financial integrity, broadened institutional ownership and revived investor...

STEM Champion, Convener

Now chair of the board of Deloitte, a firm that hires a new person every eight minutes, Janet Foutty was chair and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP; led Deloitte’s federal practice, and led Deloitte Consulting...

Purpose-Driven Change Agent

A child of revolution, Maryam Banikarim and her family fled Iran in 1979, moving first to Paris and then to California. In addition to holding the position of Gannett's first-ever CMO, Banikarim served as EVP...

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