It is difficult to find anyone who has taken a more unusual journey to their current position than Julie Sweet at Accenture. Rather than the typical consultant or engineer, she was a corporate lawyer for almost twenty years. Afterwards, she entered the world of technology and rose to the top of the company in less than a decade. The lesson is that judgment, credibility, and the ability to simplify issues have the same importance as experience in a sophisticated field.
Technology is changing almost every part of the modern economy, but those who create that technology have not always been as diverse as the society that uses it. Reshma Saujani has spent more than a decade fighting that imbalance, first by creating Girls Who Code to help close the gender gap in computing, then by launching Moms First to push for structural changes affecting moms and working families. Her career straddles two questions that are increasingly difficult to tease apart:
Women are shaping the future of business, technology, finance and society. They are women whose leadership reaches far beyond the organizations they lead. They are the generation of women at the top of their fields, across sectors, across continents making decisions, redefining markets, fueling breakthroughs in innovation, pushing back the stereotypes of female leadership and paving ways for those who will follow behind them. Many have made it but they are not profiled here because they are women who have
In the Latin America creator economy though meaning is often conflated with commerce. Grace Arzuza Mendoza’s trajectory is instructive because it reveals the more difficult phase of all translating pageant luster and gym content into brands. The model, fitness influencer and entrepreneur from Barranquilla Colombia remains first and foremost known on Instagram, where analytics firm Hype Auditor counted roughly 641,200 followers as of Sept. 2026. And what matters less is the audience she has tried to attach to it. Two
Artificial intelligence is not an experiment in technology anymore; it’s a core business capability. However, to achieve AI at enterprise scale, you need to do more than just pick the newest model or platform. Sol Rashidi is a leading Chief AI Officer and AI Strategist, who has made a career out of that gap between ambition and execution in AI. Her work includes enterprise AI, data strategy, workforce preparation, governance and the business challenges of taking emerging technology and turning
Adrian Portelli is one of those self-made tycoons that has people in Australia talking. This entrepreneur from Melbourne who had a passion for luxury cars built a luxury car subscription business which is not yet a year old but has already reached a valuation of one billion dollars. Portelli is well-known across the country for the catchy media nickname “Lambo Guy” and is the founder of LMCT+ which besides being a membership rewarding platform gives out supercars, multimillion-dollar homes and
The Romantic Myth and the Actual Risk Nowhere in our lives are dreams and work more aligned so that we actually feel as if we are on a glamorous path, and the entrepreneurs that show us their life stories are probably the ones who have been successful at it the most. Our timelines are filled with pictures of young, stylish people working on computers in Bali as well as business people who tell rags-to-riches five-slide carousel stories, and there are
John Ternus and the Quiet Reinvention of Apple’s Throne For almost seventeen years, the story of Apple leadership was dominated by only one face. Tim Cook – the operations wiz who took charge of a struggling company from Steve Jobs and turned it into the world’s top enterprise – was Apple’s face, its diplomat and its guiding light. But the narrative has formally and deliberately passed on to another. John Ternus became Apple’s chief executive on September 1 2026 taking
Introduction No name carries so much weight in the global world of high fashion and big business as Ortega’s. Marta Ortega Pérez, the daughter of Inditex founder Amancio Ortega, has emerged from her father’s long shadow to carve out her own niche among the most powerful women in business. As non-executive chair of Inditex — the parent company of Zara and the world’s largest fashion retailer by sales — Marta has silenced skeptics, outperformed the “nepo baby” tag and led
Gloria Steinem was among the strongest voices in the women’s rights movement. As a writer speaker political activist and a feminist organizer she worked against gender inequality and fought for women’s freedom and equality over nearly six decades. Steinem passed away after a short illness, at her New York City home on Thursday 2 September 2026, in her 93rd year, as the Gloria Steinem Foundation website. Early Life and Career in Journalism Gloria Steinem, feminist activist and journalist was born