News about AWESOME women.
The number of board members of companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index who are women is on the rise. According to an article in the Washington Post, “After being stuck at 16 percent for several years, the percentage of women-held board positions in the S&P 500 now reaches nearly 27 percent.” Continue reading
Jill Marcotte, Partner, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Dealer Tire, has been named the Chairman of the Board of Simple Tire. She also shared insights on a panel focusing on “Paths to the Boardroom” at the 2019 Women for Economic and Leadership Development Leadership Conference at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. Continue reading
An article in Harvard Business Review cites the example of a new COO who came up through the supply chain ranks and found ways to change her focus to become a more strategic thinker. The author, Ron Carrucci, writes that too few leaders even understand what strategic thinking really is – and how important it is to their role. SUPPLY CHAIN-TRAINED COO BECOMES A MORE STRATEGIC THINKER Continue reading
Mary Long, Managing Director of the Global Supply Chain Institute’s Supply Chain Forum at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an AWESOME Advisor, participated as a panelist for a super session at the 2019 GS1 Connect conference. The panel’s topic was “Using Data Science to Extract Business Value.” Continue reading
The publication Refrigerated and Frozen Foods recently featured an article titled “The rise of women in supply chain and logistics.” The article highlights observations from the AWESOME/Gartner Women in Supply Chain survey, including that more organizations have reported initiatives to improve gender diversity over the past several years. Read more about the 2019 Research. Continue reading
Fifty years after the first moonwalk took place, some of the behind-the-scenes people who made it happen are finally being recognized. This includes a group of women working for International Laytex Corporation (ILC) — now Playtex — who stopped sewing girdles long enough to assist NASA in making a spacesuit that could mean the difference between life and death for an astronaut. Continue reading
Beth Ford, CEO of Land O’Lakes and recipient of the 2015 AWESOME Legendary Leadership (ALL) Award when she was EVP, Chief Supply Chain and Operations Officer, was interviewed recently at the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival. Continue reading
When MIT held its first Women in Supply Chain Summit last March, one of the topics of discussion was how to correct the gender imbalance in supply chain leadership. Katie Date, who is manager of corporate and SCALE network outreach at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, summarized some of the key observations from that discussion in an article published in Supply Chain Management Review. Katie also leads MIT CTL Women in Supply Chain Initiative. Continue reading
Christine Lagarde has been nominated to be president of the European Central Bank. If confirmed, she will become the first woman to lead that organization – an addition to her already impressive list of firsts. Continue reading
Since the day Johnson & Johnson’s Kathy Wengel began speaking on a panel of supply chain leaders at AWESOME’s first symposium in 2013, she has been an inspiring model of what a leader with courage and competence can do. For the many accomplishments of her 30-year career at Johnson &Johnson and her impact beyond the J&J business, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) has selected Kathy to receive the 2019 Distinguished Service Award. Continue reading
