Excerpts from Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit: Maintaining a diverse leadership pipeline
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Excerpts from Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit: Maintaining a diverse leadership pipeline

Heidrick & Struggles’ Jane Bargmann joined a panel at Fortune’s most recent Most Powerful Women Summit to discuss how boards can ensure a pipeline of strong, diverse candidates for CEO.
March 20, 2024
Heidrick & Struggles

Heidrick & Struggles was once again a proud partner of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, which took place from October 9–11, 2023. This year’s theme was “rising to the occasion.”

The annual summit brought together women leaders across business, government, academia, philanthropy, and the arts for inspiring conversations, one-on-one interviews, panel discussions, and interactive breakout sessions.

This year, Heidrick & Struggles hosted a panel titled “Next in Line.” Jane Bargmann, global managing partner of Heidrick & Struggles’ Industrial Practice, joined the discussion about how boards can ensure a pipeline of strong, diverse candidates for CEO.

The following video is an excerpt from the panel and features a discussion about maintaining a diverse leadership pipeline.

Panelists

Jane Bargmann, global practice managing partner, Industrial Practice, Heidrick & Struggles

Elena Gomez, chief financial officer, Toast; board member, PagerDuty, Smartsheet; board chair, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Lynn Martin, president, NYSE Group; board member, Partnership for New York City; Inner-City Scholarship Fund; Manhattan College Board of Trustees

Gina Mastantuono, chief financial officer, ServiceNow; board member, Gong, Roblox

Moderator

Jo Ling Kent, CBS News Senior Business & Tech Correspondent

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