In 2011, female executives occupied five of Moffitt Cancer Center’s six spaces in the Advisory Board’s Academy Fellowship program, which examines best practices in health care and prepares participants for future leadership roles.

When your professional priorities jibe with those of your employer, success can’t be far off. This cancer research and treatment center helps female directors become vice presidents through a one-year development program that explores its strategies, mission and financial goals, as well as the seven management areas that leaders are expected to master. Rising stars may join the Women’s Leadership Circle, whose 86 members are among the system’s top executives; at meetings, the newest participants often receive mentoring from those with more experience. Prominent members include Nancy Ziel, a former nurse who’s now administrative director of satellite operations; and Yvette Tremonti, a onetime director of accounting and current EVP for strategy and business development.

CEO & Director: William S. Dalton, PhD, MD

VP, HR & Organizational Development: Joanne Olsen

% of senior managers who are women: 62%

% of corporate executives who are women: 28%

% of promotions to manager, senior manager and corporate executive positions that went to women: 7%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 64%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 36%

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

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 30%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 28%

% of female workforce participating in mentoring: <1%