Engaging talks on work life balance, executive panels on the role of mentoring in career advancement, networking lunches hosted by senior women. Every meeting of the Women’s Leadership Group at this academic medical center offers something to make female executives and managers think. That’s equally true of the center’s Leadership Development program, which finds clinical managers learning from their peers, senior execs and professional coaches, and trading best practices in preparation for key roles. Nurses with an eye on the executive track may take advantage of free certification review classes, a 15% bachelor’s degree discount, scholarships, mentoring and leadership workshops.

President & CEO: Dean M. Harrison

Senior VP, HR: Dean L. Manheimer

% of senior managers who are women: 63%

% of corporate executives who are women: 20%

% of promotions to manager, senior manager and corporate executive positions that went to women: 80%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 69%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 20%

% 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: 29%

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

% of female workforce participating in mentoring: 3%