Everything’s coming together for executive women at this health-care services company. Over the past few years, the organization has refined its hiring process so that it now includes a focus on increasing female representation at the top and has begun keeping better tabs on the numbers. It has also introduced Women Leading Change, an external development program that gives women at the director level and above a chance to receive executive coaching as well as to test their business acumen by tackling major projects. Women now hold two of the company’s five president positions (up from zero before these efforts were launched), and the number of senior women who have profit-and-loss responsibility has risen by an astounding 44%. “There is a momentum that you can feel,” says Stacy Butterfield, SVP and corporate controller. “It’s causing us to think bigger and bolder about our goals.”

Chairman & CEO: George Barrett

Chief HR Officer: Carole Watkins

% of senior managers who are women: 32%

% of corporate executives who are women: 23%

% of promotions to manager, senior manager and corporate executive positions that went to women: 34%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 31%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 23%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 0%

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

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 25%

% of female workforce participating in mentoring: 1%