The second annual CNBC Changemakers The list of women who transform business and philanthropy, launched on Monday, recognize managers whose achievements cover many areas and innovations: biotechnological breakthroughs, IA advances, women's health and new products and services, many have focused on female consumers. Everyone has completed a significant achievement in 2024, propelling a major business to a new level of growth or attacking an essential societal problem.
This group of women includes a dozen founders of startups at the head of companies with a total combined assessment of more than $ 11 billion, and they have raised more than $ 2 billion from investors. The nine CEOs of the public company on the list manage organizations with a combined market capitalization of around $ 385 billion.
In total, companies extend over fourteen sectors, including nine women in the broader the media, entertainment and sports, six in the financial services industry and six in the food and restaurant sector. Aerospace / Defense, construction, real estate and pharmacy / biotechnology are also represented. Three women on the list lead philanthropic organizations, and two women are recognized for their achievements in government.
Since November, we have gathered appointments and, with advice from Changemakers Advisory Boardassessed the impact of candidates through quantitative and qualitative lenses. Our candidates submitted information on the size and scope of the impact of their candidates. Then, with our team of advisers and journalists from the whole CNBC, we evaluated the degree to which each candidate has led to changes – in their businesses and beyond. There are so many women accomplished; Our list is differentiated by focusing on their particular impact in the past year.
By assembling this list, CNBC has identified some key trends. Like last year inauguralThese leaders pursue a goal with profits, creating companies whose success is aligned with social or environmental good.
Toyin Ajayi, CEO of Cityblock HealthCo -founded the health care provider to improve the health of low -income communities, by offering not only medical care, but also on mental health and help sail in social services.
Carla Vernón, honest CEO of the company continues the mission of the company to make products designed in a sustainable and properly formulated manner accessible to parents.
Cassandra Morales Thurswell Created plastic -free shampoo bars to do affordable, also durable hair care.
And Emma GredeFounder partner and skiing product manager, has co-founded Good American, a major brand, to give a badly served market more options, and it uses its platform to generate changes. She is president of The Fifteen percent promise, a non -profit organization working with retailers to devote 15% of their shelf space to companies belonging to blacks.
Another key trend: women who meet health care needs, often their own. Stripes Beauty Founder and Creation Head Naomi Watts Crime a transformation in the way women speak and treat menopause. Joanna StroberThe Midi Health startup offers a virtual clinic, including hormonal and non -hormonal medicines, as well as lifestyle supplements and coaching, for women aged 40 and over. These two women type a market with enormous potential.
Others Changemakers focus on consumers more information on their bodies. Katherine Stualand is the CEO of Genedx, which provides genomic tests to help the diagnosis, treatment and discovery of drugs, while Michal Mor And Mother Meravtwin sisters and triathletes, co-founded in light to measure and follow metabolism to provide personalized nutrition.
While most leaders focus on AI, this group of Changemakers is at the forefront, not only of the development of AI, but also of its safe and practical implementation. Lila IbrahimGoogle Deepmind's chief of exploitation endeavors to ensure that AI is deployed, not only in a responsible manner, but as a force for good, to find medical breakthroughs. Meanwhile, laboratories in Aily Bianca Anghelina is to build tools to improve business decision -making and the head of ACCENTURE AI, Lan guanHelp thousands of business customers to develop personalized AI strategies. In 2024, Guan led the fastest growth in emerging technology in the history of accenture, reserving $ 3 billion in AI for the company.
Our goal in launching the list of modifiers last year was to highlight the leaders who challenged the chances. Women represent 11% of the CEO of fortune 500, and it is a record. Consequently, almost all women on the list come from industries or sectors of fortune 500 where women are seriously underrepresented in CEO roles. Some, like the CEO of Taylor Morrison Sheryl Palmerare the only women CEO in their sector. Palmer adopted the distinction, taking advantage of his position to create opportunities for other women. Taylor Morrison said that the company's female workforce reached 44% in March 2024, four times the average of the construction industry.
The basis of Palmer employees illustrates a trend: leading women are more likely to have more women who have reported them in leadership roles and a diversified workforce. And this is true for this year's changemakers: 29 other women on the list say that at least half of their workforce is a woman. And 30 say that at least half of their direct reports are women.
Apart from fortune 500, women also face a climb up. The funding for venture capital for companies founded by women in fact decreased, to 2% last year, while companies including women and male co-founders fired nearly 21%. (This means that fully male founding teams attracted more than 77% of all Dollars VC last year). And there is data showing that the progress that women make to fill the gaps between the sexes in leadership is “fragile”, as Sheryl Sandberg warned after the Leanin / McKinsey ratio has found a weak pipeline in the roles of CEOs.
Women who succeed, despite these chances, are by definition, exceptional, and their stories, who reveal grain, perseverance and creativity, are an inspiration. We will be Celebrate these Changakers on April 8 in Los Angeles. Please join me for a series of interviews and conversations on leadership, innovation, understanding of consumers, how to direct culture and strategies for the future.
Our programming for the April 8 summit includes some of this year's changemakers: Donna LangleyPresident of Nbcuniversal Entertainment & Studios; Paris Hiltonfounder, CEO 11:11 Media; Chelsea HirschhornFounder and CEO of Baby, Grossarcy and Fertility Product Company Frida; CEO of TIAA withdrawal solutions, Kourtney Gibson; CEO of the Guild Education Society Bijal ShahAnd Merav and Michal Mor, the co-founders and inventors of Lumen.
