Organizational Leadership Series [PPIL]

Anne Chow, Former CEO, AT&T Business

Thursday, February 6, 2025
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Geffen 520
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Lunch available: 12:45 p.m.
The first 75 attendees will receive a free copy of Anne's book, Lead Bigger.

As part of the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership, the Organizational Leadership Series will host Anne Chow, former CEO of AT&T Business, in conversation with Derek Brown, Assistant Professor of Business at CBS.

The discussion will focus on Anne's transformative leadership journey, which led her to become the first woman of color CEO in AT&T's 140-year history. In this role, Anne led a $35B global operating unit while prioritizing the cultivation of an effective company culture for 35,000 people. Anne will share her experiences working inside one of the largest and most well-known companies in the technology and business sector as well as introduce us to her new book Lead Bigger, which reframes and expands our perspective on inclusion for greater performance at work.   

Attending this event will provide credit toward the Phillips Pathway for Inclusive Leadership (PPIL), focusing on the DEI essential skills of managing intercultural dialogue and addressing systemic inequality.  

About Anne Chow

Anne is a transformative business leader whose trailblazing corporate career spans over three decades in the technology and business sectors. She is currently Lead Director on the Board of Directors of FranklinCovey (NYSE: FC) and also serves on the Board of Directors of 3M (NYSE: MMM) and CSX (NASDAQ: CSX). Anne is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and actively supports numerous local and national organizations, including serving on the Dallas Mavericks Advisory Council and Georgia Tech’s President’s Advisory Board.

In her prior role as CEO of AT&T Business, she was the first woman of color CEO in AT&T’s 140+ year history, responsible for leading a $35B global operating unit comprised of over 35,000 people. Appointed to this position in 2019, she guided her team, through the pandemic amid unprecedented market upheaval around the world, to serve customers with communications solutions across all sectors including small and medium sized businesses, global multinational enterprises, the public sector as well as nearly all of the Fortune 1000. Anne’s leadership experiences and expertise over the decades span product management, marketing, sales, strategy, customer service, operations, network engineering and more.

Widely recognized for her role model inclusive leadership and her impact in driving success at the intersection of people, culture, and technology, Anne was named to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business twice, Forbes inaugural CEO Next List of Leaders set to revolutionize American business, Most Inspiring Woman in Communications by Light Reading, and is one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices. Her recent accolades include being recognized by The Johnson School at Cornell University with the L. Joseph Thomas Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement, the highest honor for distinguished alumni, being awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in Business by the Dallas Business Journal and becoming the first leader of Asian descent to be inducted into the Dallas Business Hall of Fame since it’s inception in 1999.

As a lifelong learner committed to inspiration and impact, Anne engages with local, national, and global audiences through keynotes, panel discussions, and published works. She is the national best-selling author of LEAD BIGGER: The Transformative Power of Inclusion, by Simon & Schuster and co-author of The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams. Anne holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering as well as an MBA with Distinction from Cornell University and is a graduate of the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School of Music.