Anne Chow

Leadership is all around us, and the potential for greatness lies within everyone. We’ve each been given the ultimate gift of this one life to live, make a difference, and leave a legacy that makes the world a better place…for everyone.

- Anne Chow
Lead Bigger: The Transformative Power of Inclusion
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Anne Chow is a transformative business leader whose trailblazing corporate career spans over three decades in the technology and business sectors.

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Anne Chow

As the first woman of color CEO in AT&T’s 140+ year history, she led AT&T Business, a $35B global operating unit comprised of 35,000 people.  Anne is currently Lead Director on the Board of Directors of FranklinCovey, a company dedicated to organizational transformation through leadership, execution, and culture and serves on the Boards of Directors of 3M, a company focused on applying science in collaborative ways to improve the daily lives of people around the world, and CSX, a leading supplier of rail-based freight transportation in North America. She is also a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Anne has been widely recognized for her model inclusive leadership, driving success at the intersection of people, culture, and technology. She has been named to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business twice, Forbes inaugural CEO Next List of Leaders set to revolutionize American business, Light Reading’s Most Inspiring Woman in Communications, and is one of Thinkers360’s Top B2B Women Thought Leaders. Her recent accolades include being recognized by: Women Inc. (Most Influential Women Corporate Board Directors), the Johnson School at Cornell University (L. Joseph Thomas Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement – the highest honor for distinguished alumni), Dallas Business Journal (Lifetime Achievement Award for Women), as well as becoming the first leader of Asian descent to be inducted into the Dallas Business Hall of Fame since its inception in 1999.

As a lifelong learner committed to inspiration and sustainable impact, Anne has launched into the next stage of her career, which she refers to as “rewirement”.  She is passionate about engaging with current and future leaders, teams, and audiences through her work as The Rewired CEO, where her unique insights power connection and culture with a future-forward lens and emphasis on sustainable, agile growth.

Lead Bigger: The Transformative Power of Inclusion
National Bestseller

LEAD BIGGER

In a world that’s become more interconnected yet polarized, inclusion has been overly politicized and narrowly defined to issues of gender and race.

As a result, we need a new approach to inclusive leadership that goes beyond DEI, harnessing its power for innovation and growth.

In Lead Bigger, Anne Chow reframes inclusion as the required leadership competency of expanding our perspectives for greater performance in our work, workforce, and workplace.

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Chowisms

Life is all about relationships – be sure to seek and foster meaningful ones.

Leadership is about all the people. That means each and every person.

Life is an optimization equation. You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

Prioritize the no-do-over moments. Remember, YOU define what a no-do-over is.

Inclusion is the force multiplier for leadership impact.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only two outcomes ~ success and learning.

To BE good, we must DO good, FOR good.

Cultures of trust are more agile and resilient. And they beat any strategy – every time.

Trust is foundational for any and every meaningful relationship.

If we don’t try, exert, and challenge ourselves, we will never realize our fullest potential.

Great leaders empower people to be their most authentic self.

Keep Learning. Keep Going. Keep Growing.

Be Real. Be True. Be YOU.

Take care of yourself – mind, body, heart, and soul – for your entire life.

YOU are your greatest superpower.

Those of us who are given the opportunity of being first must ensure that we’re not the only or the last.

Each of us must invest in today’s minds because they are tomorrow’s future.

There is nothing more powerful than the human connection.

You’re not a leader unless you’ve developed other leaders who can develop other leaders.

Belonging is situational and deeply personal.

Organizations and businesses will not transform unless people do.

Exceptional performance requires an environment where people can become exceptional and thrive, as individuals and as a team.

- Anne Chow
If You’re Not Inclusive, You’re Not a Leader
In Lead Bigger, I feature one-on-one conversations with leaders I admire. My conversation with Adam Grant is now available as a free online resource.
“If You’re Not Inclusive, You’re Not a Leader” will challenge your definition of inclusive leadership to help you lead bigger.
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