Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership

FOREWORD

We need more books like this by women leaders. Let me tell you why.

While career women face a multitude of challenges on the way up the corporate ladder, we are seeing steady progress. Women now hold many critical jobs overseeing some of the most important parts of the US economy. In 2021, the number of women CEOs on the Fortune 500 hit an all-time record: 41. And for the first time, two Black women are on the list. The numbers are better for the chief information officer (CIO) role—17 percent of Fortune 500 CIOs are women.

But as we all know, women’s rise is also inconsistent and slow. The number of female CEOs is still just 8.1 percent of the total. The turnover among CIOs means it’s tough to rise above that 17 percent. And the pandemic ...