“You’ve got to help those you lead find their passion,” explains Catherine Brune, a regional president for this financial services and insurance company. That’s the idea behind its popular Leaders as Teachers series, a set of talks by top talent that helps up-andcoming employees enhance their business acumen; it attracts about 4,000 attendees annually and is a big hit online. Another program, Leading Women Executives, finds attendees devising action plans for their careers and honing their leadership abilities; one recent graduate, Maribel Gerstner, is now president and chief operating officer of the company’s financial services division.

Chairman, President & CEO: Thomas Wilson

Executive VP, HR: Jim DeVries

% of senior managers who are women: 27%

% of corporate executives who are women: 33%

% of promotions to manager, senior manager and corporate executive positions that went to women: 16%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 35%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 33%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 31%

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 33%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 27%

% of female workforce participating in mentoring: <1%