El Brown: This founder of a music-based movement class has changed lives—including her own By Katie Morell It was late in 2008 when El Brown, a former teacher, came up with a business idea that would soon help thousands of children, land her on The Oprah Winfrey...

Debbie Roberts: The zone president at a huge global brand learned her love of business working in a corner store By Katrina Brown Hunt When she started really moving up in her career at a certain global brand, Debbie Roberts took time to do one important thing:...

Men at Work: S. Shariq Yosufzai By Janell Hazelwood At Chevron, diversity is part of the corporation’s core values. One of the world’s leading energy giants, the company has earned numerous accolades, from achieving a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equality Index, to...

Accelerate By Karen Eisenberg Beverly Norman-Cooper was content in her job as a regional communications consultant for Kaiser Permanente when she got a phone call from the CFO’s office: would she be willing to move to the national division to manage communications for an important new initiative? “There...