20 Most Inspiring Women
Leaders 2024

COVER STORY

Leading by Example | Aoife Reid

Aoife Reid is breaking through glass ceilings in the male-dominated legal industry serving as the Managing Partner at McMahon, Martine & Gallagher since 2017. Aoife started her career as one of the younger women admitted to the New York bar at age 23. A trial attorney by her late 20’s Aoife won the first trial she ever took to verdict.

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A Multifaceted Leader | Béatrice Cointreau

Béatrice Cointreau, the founder of BYBC Ventures, is a seasoned international entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and experienced board member. Cornell University MBA and INSEAD IBD (International Board of Director) graduate Béatrice co-managed The Renaud Cointreau group as board member and CEO, successfully developing Wines and Spirits companies with double digits yearly progressions for nearly 25 years.

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Empowering Responsible AI Management | Dawn S Talbot

When Dawn Talbot started identifying a critical conceptual gap in AI self-governance where she knew she could make a significant positive impact, she knew she had to step up and take control. This realization offered a unique opportunity to leverage her extensive experience in finance and engineering to address an emerging and vital challenge in the AI landscape.

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Armed with A Dream to Transform the World | Manjula Basant Rai

A Chartered Accountant by profession and having worked close to two decades in the Finance sector, Manjula Basant Rai, Founder, and CEO of Spaanda, always felt something was missing and sometimes questioned the purpose of her journey. While at Tesco, she stumbled across sustainability by chance, and that was her light bulb moment. In a flash, she knew what she could do and what she had to do.

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A Reinventing & Innovating Leader | Nancy Lazkani

Nancy Lazkani, Founder & CEO of Icon Media Direct has an incredible drive to succeed and equally a drive to do what’s right. This combination creates someone who will aggressively push clients, partners and employees alike to grow, and does so with the utmost integrity. This identity creates a relationship and bond that is irreplaceable when clients are entrusting Icon with millions of dollars for marketing.

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Tana Greene | Tana Greene

Since co-founding Greene Group in 1988, a national staffing company that grew to operate in more than 20 states, Tana Greene has been on a mission to help people. With over 30 years of experience in the indus-try, she saw, first-hand, the changing needs of the hourly workforce and understood the vital role technology must play moving forward. She set out to bring dignity through empowered choices back to hourly workers and provide a dependable W2 workforce for clients. Tana is a purpose-driven person with extraordinary leadership qualities.

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A Multi-Faceted Leader | Trudy Darwin

Trudy Darwin’s first corporate job after graduating from University in the late ’90s was with what the industry labeled a dot.com, where she worked on the marketing side of web development for eCommerce companies, moving to web-based sales and digital brand awareness. From this, she moved quickly up the proverbial ladder to become Director of Marketing and Sales for global U.S. businesses in industries such as; Telecom, Technology, Training, and Publishing.

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Guiding Children towards a Better Future | Veronica Robinson

Veronica Robinson, the CEO of Stepping Stones Behavioral Solutions leads with the Golden Rule in all facets of life. Her purpose is to treat everyone with the same kindness and grace. She demonstrates a deep respect for those that she serves with a willingness to gladly perform any task, whether it is changing diapers or cleaning toilets if it needs to be done.

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Top 20 Outstanding Women
CEOs of 2023

COVER STORY

Uplifting Seniors towards A Better Future | Wendy Jones

Wendy Jones, Founder and CEO of Next Steps 4 Seniors, LLC is the design and creative force behind the company’s programs and services. These programs and services were created and implemented due to Wendy’s laser focus on supporting vulnerable seniors. Her mission is to elevate the lives of these aging seniors who have been too little valued and cared for in our society.

A Force of Strength & Intention | Amanda Johnson

Amanda’s leadership throughout her tenure at Beacon is seen in every aspect of the organization — not just the strategic focus one would expect from a CEO, but a hands-on style of leadership—overseeing the implementation of new software systems, service lines and championing the recent renovation and workflow of Beacon’s new 25,000 square feet headquarters in Anchorage, Alaska.

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A True Inspiration | Clare Ducksbury

Clare Ducksbury is an inspirational leader, an advanced thought-leader in the mass claims/class actions space, and most importantly, a pioneering leader who strives to educate her team to progress collective action knowledge and expertise within their respective disciplines.

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Empowering African Americans Locally & Globally | Deidre Johnson

Deidre Johnson is the CEO and Executive Director of The Center for African American Health (CAA Health), an organization dedicated to health equity and working to improve African Americans’ social determinants of health. CAA Health values and centers community with its hub in the traditionally African American community of Northeast Denver.

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Creating Health, Happiness & Community Cohesion | Joan Kanigan

Joan Kanigan, CEO of the Western Development Museum (WDM), took an extraordinarily unique yet bold step as a leader in 2021. She initiated a 360o Performance Assessment to better understand how she was performing and where she needed to improve—all through an honest and critical feedback system to know where she was standing as a leader and a manager.

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Inspiring the Future of Construction | Leah Hamilton

Coming from a family with over 50 years in the construction industry, Leah knows what it takes to get her hands dirty. Growing up on a farm, she learned how to operate just about every piece of equipment and had worked for her father’s residential building company but at the time hadn’t considered construction as her career aspiration.

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Bringing A Change | Shirley Wang

Shirley Wang has unwavering opinions and a strong vision for the design of Plastpro’s products and the standards to which they must be manufactured. She is an out-of-the-box but also efficient thinker, and this allows her to creatively devise viable solutions when it comes to meeting customers’ needs.

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A Bold Leader | Venu Dhupa

The Westway Trust is a 23-acre estate in trust for the benefit of the community. Venu Dhupa is the leader who has brought a different vision to running this dual enterprise.

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Guiding Children towards a Better Future | Veronica Robinson

Veronica Robinson, the CEO of Stepping Stones Behavioral Solutions leads with the Golden Rule in all facets of life. Her purpose is to treat everyone with the same kindness and grace. She demonstrates a deep respect for those that she serves with a willingness to gladly perform any task, whether it is changing diapers or cleaning toilets if it needs to be done.

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