List will recognize 40 female leaders who are impacting society, challenging established business practices and driving industry-wide change
Nominations open today through November 3
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., October 3, 2023 – CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, today announced the opening of nominations for the inaugural CNBC Changemakers: Women Transforming Business list developed in partnership with Full Picture, a leading strategy, communications and production firm, as well as the formation of a CNBC Changemakers Advisory Board. The unranked list, inspired by CNBC Senior Media & Technology Correspondent Julia Boorstin’s best-selling book When Women Lead, will recognize a diverse group of women whose accomplishments have left a mark on the business world and who are paving a path forward. CNBC Changemakers will feature 40 women from companies and organizations across all sectors of the economy—including philanthropic organizations.
The women named to the list will have crossed meaningful financial milestones, achieved significant business results, challenged traditional leadership models, solved old problems with new approaches, and identified untapped opportunities in the past year. They will be recognized for setting new standards for success and management, transcending gender barriers and serving as role models for all. They are the icons rewriting the rules and shaping a dynamic business landscape.
The nomination process for CNBC Changemakers begins today, October 3, 2023, and runs through November 3, 2023, at 11:59pm ET and is open to women in senior leadership roles at companies with at least $25 million in annual revenue in at least one of the past three years or with an enterprise value of at least $100 million for private companies or $250 million for public companies. A data-driven approach that analyzes the quantitative and qualitative impact and significance of each nominee’s contribution to their industry or sector between November 1, 2022, and November 1, 2023, will drive the selection of the list. Complete details on how to apply can be found here: cnbc.com/changemakers. The CNBC Changemakers list will be announced in January 2024.
The CNBC Changemakers Advisory Board is made up of top academics, management experts and business and entertainment icons, who will work with the CNBC editorial team to determine the weight of quantitative and qualitative criteria that will be used to select the final list.
CNBC Changemakers Advisory Board members include:
- Marcela Miguel Berland, Latin Insights Founder & President
- Julia Boorstin, CNBC Senior Media & Tech Correspondent
- Tory Burch, Tory Burch LLC Executive Chairman & Chief Creative Officer; Tory Burch Foundation Founder
- Emma Carrasco, NBCUniversal News Group Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs
- Srikant Datar, Harvard Business School Dean
- Karen Finerman, Metropolitan Capital Advisors CEO & Co-Founder and CNBC Contributor
- Beth Ford, Land O’Lakes, Inc. President & CEO
- Ken Frazier, General Catalyst’s Health Assurance Initiatives Chairman; former Merck Chairman & CEO
- Desiree Gruber, Full Picture Founder & CEO
- Kris Jenner, Entrepreneur, Executive Producer, and star of HULU’s The Kardashians
- Oscar Munoz, Former CEO & Chairman United Airlines and CNBC Contributor
- Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective Founder & President
- Sheryl Sandberg, LeanIn.org and OptionB.org Founder
- Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Founder
CNBC’s Julia Boorstin will report on the list across all CNBC platforms.
About CNBC:
CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news, providing real-time financial market coverage and business content consumed by more than half a billion people per month across all platforms. The network’s 15 live hours a day of news programming in North America (weekdays from 5:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a mix of reality programming, CNBC’s highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.
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About Full Picture:
Full Picture is an award-winning agency with a Peabody, GLAAD Media, PR Net 100, Webbys, Shortys, 14 Emmy nominations, and over 20 other media industry awards. We help people and brands tell their stories in the most compelling ways to reach new audiences and create fans who are loyal and loud. Our roster of clients spans across three divisions – Brand and Strategy, Production, and Strategic Communications.
Joanne Bradford serves as an advisor to Full Picture on the CNBC partnership, Bradford most recently served the President of Honey acquired by PayPal, she was the COO of SoFi and held senior positions at Microsoft, Yahoo and Pinterest.
Media Contacts:
Jennifer Dauble
VP Public Relations, CNBC
Jennifer.Dauble@nbcuni.com
Christy Welder
EVP Strategic Communications, Full Picture
Cwelder@fullpic.com
