If it’s lonely at the top, it’s a lot lonelier when you’re a woman,” says Lindsay Kaplan of the realization that moved her and Carolyn Childers to start Chief, a private membership network focused specifically on female executives.
Kaplan, a former vp at mattress company Casper, and Childers, a onetime senior vp at home-improvement marketplace Handy, created Chief “as a way to connect and support executive leaders,” says Kaplan, adding, “There are a lot of amazing organizations out there for women in business, but we felt like the executive woman was overlooked because she often became the de facto mentor or the speaker on panels at those organizations.”
Since launching in 2019, the group is now at 20,000 members, welcoming female execs from the likes of Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Shondaland,…