PLJ – Q4 2025 Issue
PLJ – 2026 Awards Information
Latest Press Releases
Profiles in Leadership Journal Announces the 2025 Women Worth Watching® in Leadership Honorees
Cleveland, OH (August 1, 2025)
Featured Articles
My Board Journey: Why Advisory and Nonprofit Boards Matter
Securing a corporate board seat is not an easy path—especially for women and those coming from nontraditional backgrounds.
The Importance of the Black Professional in the Modern Workplace: From Entrepreneurship to Corporate Leadership
There are moments in history when a nation must pause—not just to commemorate, but to celebrate achievements, amplify the voices that advance progress, and chart a new course forward.
Congratulations, Mary Barra, Chair and CEO, General Motors—A Woman Worth Watching, Always
In 2011, Profiles in Diversity Journal selected Mary Barra as a Woman Worth Watching®—recognizing her early leadership at General Motors.
Featured Series
PLJ – Magazine Issue – Q1 2025 – Award Winners
2025 Latino & Hispanic Leadership Award Winners
- Akin – Sergio Urias – Partner
- allnex USA – Juan Garcia – Director, Supply Chain Americas
- Crossroads Impact Corp – Eric Donnelly – CEO
- DailyPay – Gregory (“Goyo”) Schipilliti – Director of International
- Dechert LLP – Bernardo L. Piereck de Sá – Partner
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed – Gaela Gehring Flores – Partner
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed – Emilio Saiz – Partner
- IQ Academy Los Angeles – Ana Navarro De Ruiz – Engagement Coach
- Knobbe Martens – Mauricio A. Uribe – Partner
- Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP – Josue Villalta – Partner
- L’ATTITUDE Ventures – Laura Moreno Lucas – General Partner
- Latham & Watkins – Santiago Bejarano – Partner
- Latham & Watkins – Guido Liniado – Partner
- New American Funding – Patty Arvielo – Co-Founder and CEO
- New York Life – Will Colon – Vice President and Head of Foundational Business Operations & Shared Services
- Newmark – Jimena Sayavedra – Associate Director
- Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Jesika Silva Blanco – Partner
- Project Bread – Adriana Mendes-Sheldon – Director of Community Partnerships
- Prosperity Now – Marisa Calderon – President & CEO
- RWJBarnabas Health – Teresa Di Elmo – Chief Nursing Officer & Vice President for Patient Care Services
- Salazar Law – Luis Salazar – Partner
- Stretto – Leticia Sanchez – Managing Director
- Stride/K12 – Pamela Anzaldua – High School Teacher
- Stride Inc. – Paola Stauffer – High School Spanish Teacher
- Stride, Inc. – Inez Azucena Ventura-Jackson – Career Learning Program Coordinator
- Transamerica – Gus Ortega – Head of Operational & Nonfinancial Risk Management
- Union Pacific Railroad – Ashanti Mieres – Director Mexico Marketing and Sales
- WilmerHale – Josh Lerner – Partner
2025 Emerging Leaders Award Q1 Winners
- DiCello Levitt LLP – Sara Aguiñiga – Partner
- Gibbons P.C. – Courtney A. Johnson – Government & Regulatory Affairs Attorney
- Lighthouse – Dawn Kelly Garrison, Esq. – Senior Manager Proposal Marketing
- Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Alicia Grant – Partner
- Prosperity Now – Jason Wallace – VP of Community Impact
- Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight – Carolin Guentert – Partner, Co-Managing Partner, New York office, Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight and Co-Chair
- Tallo – Allison Danielsen – CEO
- Union Pacific Railroad – Greg Thompson – Superintendent Train Operations
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP – Tania Faransso – Partner
PLJ – Magazine Issue – Q2 2025 – Award Winners
2025 Women Worth Watching® in STEAM Award
- BeOne Medicines – Melika Davis – SVP, Global Clinical Operations
- Berklee College of Music – Taneshia Nash Laird – Associate Professor, Africana Studies
- Dechert LLP – Nisha Patel Gupta – Partner
- Fish & Richardson – Crystal Culhane – Principal
- Fish & Richardson – Excylyn Hardin-Smith – Principal
- Knobbe Martens – Kimberly J. Miller, Ph.D. – Partner
- Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP – Shelley C. Danek, Ph.D. – Partner
- New York Life Investments – Amanda Gallagher – Managing Director, Global Head of Data and Tech Solutions
- NYC Health + Hospitals – Danielle DiBari – Chief Pharmacy Officer, Chief Procurement Officer, Senior Vice President Business Operations
- Orbital Engineering, Inc. – Mallori Barg – Director of Business Operations – Utility Services
- Oregon State University – Elizabeth Tomasino – Professor of enology
- Robins Kaplan LLP – Emily E. Niles – Partner
- The Norton Law Firm PC – Esther Kim Chang – Partner
- Trilyon, Inc. – Carolyn Joshua – President & CEO
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C. – Eva F. Yin – Partner
2025 Asian Leadership Award Winners
- Akin – Inderveer Hothi – Partner
- Akin – Hyongsoon Kim – Head of the Consumer Class Action Practice
- Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP – Sabrina Wang – Partner
- Oncourse Home Solutions – Sylvia Chen – Head of Total Rewards
- Oncourse Home Solutions – Arul Sugunakumar – CTO, Oncourse Home Solutions
- PENN Entertainment – Jane Nguyen – VP of Human Resource Operations
- Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP – Khue Hoang – Co-Managing Partner, New York Office
- Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP – Qiaijing ‘Ella’ Zheng – Managing Partner- Palo Alto and San Francisco offices and Chair of Asian American Litigation and Finance Practice
- Stretto – James M. Le – President & Chief Operating Officer
- The Norton Law Firm PC – Wendy J. Ray – Partner
- Webster Bank – Tammy Leisen – Senior Managing Director of Government Banking
2025 Team Leadership Award Winners
- Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP – BLB&G’S Case Development And Client Advisory Group
- PRF Institute – THE PRF Teaching Ministry
2025 Mentoring Leadership Award Winners
- Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP – Hannah Ross – Partner and Member of the Firm’s Executive Committee and Board
- Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP – Katie Sinderson – Partner
- Colonial Pipeline – Melanie Little – President, Chief Executive Officer
- Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight – Kate Mueting – Firm Administrative Partner; Discrimination and Harassment Practice Group Co-Chair
- Winston & Strawn LLP – Kobi Kennedy Brinson – Partner; Chair, Opportunity & Inclusion Committee; Co-Chair, Financial Services Industry Group
2025 Emerging Leaders Award Q2 Winners
- Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP – Rebecca Boon – Partner
- Tallo – Hannah Bullard – Head of Employer and Workforce Partnerships
PLJ – Magazine Issue – Q3 2025 – Award Winners
2025 Women Worth Watching® in Leadership Award Winners
- Akin – Amy Kennedy – Partner
- Akin – Parvin Moyne – Partner
- allnex USA – Eileen Weber – R&D Director Americas
- Arrow Electronics – Kim Brown Wilmsen – Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
- Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP – Lindsey Strang Aberg – Counsel
- Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP – Jillian Raines – Partner
- Dechert LLP – Allison Fumai – Partner
- FUJIFILM Biotechnologies – Maja Pedersen – Chief Operating Officer
- Gibbons P.C. – Mary Frances Palisano – Director, Business & Commercial Litigation Group; Child Advocacy Team Leader; Pro Bono Chair; Coordinator of the Gibbons Cares Pro Bono Platform
- Globality Inc. – Sonia Mathai – Chief Human Resources Officer
- Hanson Bridgett LLP – Shannon M. Nessier – Sacramento Market Leader, Partner
- HARMAN International – Traci Perry – Senior Vice President, Controlling, Lifestyle Division
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP – Amina Hassan – Partner
- Knobbe Martens – Andrea Cheek – Partner
- Knobbe Martens – Carol Pitzel Cruz – Partner
- Merz Aesthetics – Terri Phillips, MD, MPH – Global Chief Medical Affairs Officer
- New York Life – Ridhika Nayar – CFO Technology, Data, AI & Ventures
- Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Christine Fernandez Owen – Co-Head of Projects Real Estate, United States
- Oncourse Home Solutions – Marlo J. Gaal – Chief People and Diversity Officer
- Oncourse Home Solutions – Marguerite (Meg) Hillock – Director of External Affairs and Partnerships
- Oncourse Home Solutions – Zisan Tekin – SVP, General Management and Operations
- Pagaya – Tami Rosen – Board Member, Chief Development Officer, Chair of Advisory Board
- Prosperity Now – Chrissi Johnson – Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer
- Pryor Cashman – Katherine C. Reilly – Partner
- Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP – Sarah Jorgensen – Founding Partner
- Renita Marshall Helping Hands Foundation – Renita Marshall – Founder & President
- Robins Kaplan LLP – Jamie Kurtz – Partner, Co-Chair of the Health Care Litigation Group
- Stretto – Kavita Sarma – Managing Director, Client Services
- Texas Tech Health El Paso – Gloria M. Loera, DNP, RN, NEA-BC – Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director
- UnitedLex – Renee Meisel – CEO
2025 Veteran Leadership Award Winners
- DailyPay – Alexander Haig – Vice President, Public Sector, DailyPay
- New York Life – Christopher M. Mulch – MBA Partner
- Norton Rose Fulbright – Juanmarcos Bañales – Associate
- PENN Entertainment – Sean Demeule – Vice President and General Manager
2025 Native American/Indigenous Leadership Award Winners
- Special Olympics – Tyler Fryberg – Building Bridges Project Coordinator
2025 Emerging Leaders Award Q3 Winners
- DailyPay – Gregory (Goyo) Schipilliti Cid – Director of International and Head of Latino Segment
- Ivy Planning Group – Alex Smith – Vice President, Recruiting
- Ivy Planning Group – Bradley Smith – Consultant and Project Manager
- Ivy Planning Group – Gary Smith II – Business Development
- Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Eagle Robinson – Head of Patents, United States
