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How Women Lead's Washington, D.C. Executive Board has expanded, announcing our new board members. 

With our expansion into the Chicago region, this new chapter of executive women will elevate women's leadership in the area.

Our new Illinois-based chapter will help propel women to higher positions of power and influence in the region, with a focus on programming around corporate boards, investing, and philanthropy.

How Women Lead is expanding our mission to redefine women's leadership and support senior executive women by adding a Chicago Region chapter with a powerhouse executive board.

Yasi Baiani, former Women Leaders for the World Global Advisor, gives insight into Cleo as the SVP of Product & Marketing and her personal journey regarding adequately supporting families and caregivers through benefits packages.

Having a diverse board of directors can benefit a company in many ways, and there are steps they can take to fulfill this outcome. 

It’s been shown that having a diverse board of directors has many benefits. One big step companies can take to achieve more diversity is to reshape their board recruitment, onboarding and retention processes to be inclusive of minority groups. Executives and experienced board directors including Julie Castro Abrams, CEO of How Women Lead, weigh in on the issue of recruiting and corporate board diversity.

The article discusses the falling “trust in women leaders”, and Julie Castro Abrams believes there's another factor that is playing a role in the loss of trust in women leaders. 

According to a recent survey, there is a decline in “trust in women leaders”. Julie Castro Abrams, CEO and chair of How Women Lead, believes another factor is how society responds to women leaders.

Violet Clark speaks with How Women Lead Founder and CEO, Julie Castro Abrams, about repositioning yourself after retirement and extending your impact beyond your professional career.

Julie Castro Abrams featured in new podcast "The State of: Women", which informs and inspires listeners to take actionable steps towards gender equity in our country.

Executive Director of LatinaVIDA, Tammy Ramos, and member of our How Women Lead community shares the ways she is disrupting status quo and her industry as a woman leader. 

The article, written by Manuel Herrera, shares information about #GetOnBoard Week, our honorees receiving awards for their work in creating a more equitable landscape for women, and the How Women Lead Advocacy and Action Summit.

How Women Lead is honoring Mary Stutts, Salesforce, and Nia Impact Capital at our annual #GetOnBoard Week Summit for their impactful work creating more equity for women in the workplace.

Making banking easier for every customer is the mission of Mary Mack, who leads 67,000 employees in Wells Fargo's consumer and small-business banking (CSBB) division. Last year, Mack led the app's relaunch, making it easier to use and more secure for customers. As part of the bank's effort to support women-owned businesses, Mack's  team also introduced "Connect to More," a partnership between Wells Fargo and the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center that supports women-owned businesses.

Our new Latinas in Sight initiative is focused on increasing Latina representation on corporate boards, make training resources available, and generate social impact to support organizations focused and led by Latinas.

Julie Castro Abrams shares our mission to drive Latina representation in the boardroom, support Latinas in senior leadership roles, and break barriers through our new Latinas in Sight initiative. 

Julie Castro Abrams sits down with podcast host, Lynda Grindstaff, to share more about How Women Lead and the continuous mission to drive the needle towards gender equity in the world.

How Women Lead is proud to announce our newest appointments to our Executive Board, Lorraine Akiba, President and CEO of LHA Ventures and Lori Castillo Martinez, Executive Vice President and Chief Equality, Sales Force, as well as Shawnte Mitchell, General Counsel at Genomics to our Silicon Valley Board.

Lorraine Akiba, President and CEO of LHA Ventures and Lori Castillo Martinez, Executive Vice President and Chief Equality, Sales Force join our Executive Board and Shawnte Mitchell, General Counsel at Genomics joins our Silicon Valley Board.

In this conversation with Dr. Nancy, Julie Castro Abrams shares her story about how she got involved and created an organization focused on social justice work, and gives advice to women on how they can advocate for gender equity. 

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We are proud to have four new executive women leaders join our Executive Board of Directors, each with diverse and accomplished backgrounds to support our mission towards gender equity in the boardroom. 

Attendees of the Latina Empow(h)er Summit gained advice from Julie Castro Abrams on how to overcome insecurity and lack of confidence when climbing in their career.

It is important to have organizations that drive the needle towards diverse representation in key business decision-makers and founders, and How Women Lead is an organization committed to this.