Chief’s brand and how to talk about Chief

• Chief is the private network executive women rely on to raise their leadership game.

• Chief helps members maximize their leadership impact through access to a vetted executive community and valuable insights.

• Our community represents more than 10,000 companies, including 77% of the Fortune 100. Nearly 40% of Chief Members are in their company’s C-Suite.

Chief helps its members raise their leadership game by providing them with a curated community and valuable, of-the-moment leadership insights. Membership includes:

• A place among the largest network of senior executive women — all of whom are committed to connecting in a trusted, confidential space.

• Executive coaching or a peer advisory group to work through leadership challenges and gain unbiased feedback.

• Executive Education course/s - executives strengthen foundational leadership competencies through live, structured workshops led by world-renowned business academics.

• Timely in-person and virtual events, including monthly roundtables, quarterly speaker events, and annual summits in major cities tailored for today’s senior leaders. Topics are curated to help Chief Members navigate emerging business challenges, strengthen their leadership, and expand their executive network.

• Access to Chief’s Clubhouses in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., where they can build local communities and connections (for an additional annual fee).

• A safe, inclusive, and welcoming experience for women executives of all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences.

• Leadership is more demanding than ever before.

• Today, the pressure to work faster, produce more with less, and be more available to stakeholders is constant.

• Executives who identify as women also face unique challenges and nuances. But they don’t have to do it alone.

• Networking is not just a necessity — it’s a shortcut to success, maximizing time and effort needed to overcome their leadership challenges faster thanks to the insights of powerful peers.

• Chief is the only network where top executive women can connect with peers across industries to strengthen their leadership and address their individual leadership challenges — together.

Our mission is to maximize the impact of women executives.

• Raise your leadership game.

• Up your leadership game.

• Maximize your executive impact.

• Where mentors are mentored.

• We believe great leadership is essential because change starts at the top.

• We believe the conversation around leadership should be as complex as its challenges.

• We believe leadership is a practice, not a person.

• We believe there is more than one way to lead effectively.

• We believe that modern leaders are lifelong learners.

• We believe diverse perspectives fuel stronger decision-making.

Chief’s founding belief is that better representation of women in leadership positions is key, and we are laser-focused on serving this critical audience. Once women step into executive roles, they have fewer peers who understand their challenges personally.

Over the last five years, we’ve learned a lot — including how to better serve our members so they get the most value from the Chief network. That’s driven us to concentrate our focus on maximizing their leadership impact. Because when women executives perform at their best, they can create real change.

Chief believes diversity in leadership is critical. The data shows what we know to be true — diverse leadership teams drive stronger business and financial performance.

We know that women and those with intersectional identities face an additional set of barriers in business and leadership. Chief has narrowed our focus so that we can equip these leaders with the network and the tools to raise their leadership game and make even more of an impact in their organizations.

Representation and equal opportunity is embedded in Chief’s ethos.

Our impact strategy is an extension of Chief’s mission, focused on leveraging the power of our resources and network to reduce barriers to brilliance for the next generation of leaders.

Through our partnerships and events, we aim to increase career opportunities for girls and young people, and leaders of color. We believe it is our responsibility to leverage our clubhouses and our network of leaders to invest in girls and young people to ensure that the next generation of progressive, intersectional leadership can be maximized.

We work with organizations on the local level to connect our members to the next generation of leaders and support nonprofits focused on career access and advancement through usage of our Clubhouse spaces.

We’re also proud to partner with Girls Inc’s national Project Accelerate program, which focuses on accelerating young women’s trajectories through college and career entry.

Chief is on a mission to maximize the impact of women executives. We define success as our members telling us that they have more impact as a leader because of their Chief experience.

Chief is on a mission to maximize the impact of women executives. We believe great leadership is essential because change starts at the top. We believe diverse perspectives fuel stronger decision-making and will create more opportunities for diverse voices throughout the talent pipeline.