Inaugural Great Place to Work® For All Leadership Awards Honor Top Women Leaders

SAN FRANCISCO, March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Last night, on the eve of the 107^th International Women's Day, Great Place to Work announced its inaugural Great Place to Work^® For All™ Leadership Awards at a gala dinner at the Four Seasons San Francisco The honorees—women leaders from companies on the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For and Best Workplaces for Women--were chosen by senior leadership at their companies for a being the leader who has consistently played a critical role in helping their organization deliver on strategic growth and business goals by creating a high-trust culture that is a great place to work for every employee. The 77 Great Place to Work For All Awards recognize these leaders' contributions to their businesses and fully live their companies' values in the service to their customers, employees, and stakeholders.

The awards dinner kicked off the 15th Annual Great Place to Work^® For All Summit^™, March 7-9 in San Francisco.

In making today's announcement, Great Place to Work CEO, Michael C. Bush said, "We are excited to celebrate the achievements of some of the top women leaders at America's greatest companies. The companies on the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For and Best Workplaces for Women are leading the conversation in workplace equality and are demonstrating to corporate America how to become more diverse, more innovative, and great places to work for all."

"The inaugural awards ceremony is part of Great Place to Work's challenge to inspire every employer and company to become a great workplace for every one of its employees. This maximizes revenue, profit and growth. We are committed to accelerating the maximization of all human potential that is currently underrepresented and disengaged across workplaces, with our first milestone of closing the work experience gap between women and men by 2020," Bush said.

In alphabetical order by company name, the honorees are:

Mary Curtin, Senior Vice President, Administration
4imprint, Inc

Jennifer Oneal, Studio Head, Vicarious Visions
Activision Blizzard, Inc.

Ellyn Shook, Chief Human Resources Officer
Accenture

Donna Morris, Executive Vice President of Customer and Employee Experience
Adobe Systems

Brenda Mullins, Vice President, Chief People Officer, Human Resources
Aflac, Inc.

Melisa Miller, Executive Vice President & President of card services business
Alliance Data Systems

Julia Gutz Moller, Assistant Vice President, U.S. Marketing
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America

Cathy Benton, Chief Human Resources Officer
Alston & Bird LLP

Monica Singh, Vice President/General Manager, Sales & Marketing
American Express

Jeanette Rice, President and Chief Operating Officer
American Fidelity Assurance Company

Lori Lee, Chief Executive Officer, AT&T International and Global Marketing
AT&T

Nikki Sumpter, SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer
Atlantic Health System

Leslie Dixon, Chief Human Resources Officer
Baird

Christy Tosh Crider, Shareholder, Chair of Women's Initiative and Health Care Litigation Group, Head of Long Term Care Group Baker Donelson

Mary Lou Burke Alfonso, Chief Operating Officer, North America Center Operations
Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Arvetta Powell, Director of Diversity & Associate Experience
Build-A-Bear

Melissa Wood, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Burns & McDonnell

Tina Jones, Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources
Cadence

Kristy Simonette, Senior Vice President of Strategic Services / Chief Information Officer
Camden Property Trust

Corey Haire, Vice President, East Coast Division
CarMax

Francine Katsoudas, Senior Vice President and Chief People OfficerCisco

Debra Punke, Senior Vice President of Human Capital
Concord Hospitality Enterprises Company

Kathy Kantzer, Vice President, Loan Servicing
Credit Acceptance Corporation

Wendy Cama, Audit Partner
Crowe Horwath LLP

Debra Buck, Regional Vice President
CWS Apartment Homes LLC

Teresa Briggs, West Region Managing Partner; San Francisco Managing Partner, U.S. Board Member
Deloitte

Joanne Smith, Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer
Delta Air Lines

Arden Hoffman, Vice President, Head of People
Dropbox

Penny Pennington, Principal
Edward Jones

Tracey Kruse, Chief Operating Officer
Encompass Home Health and Hospice

Neha Parikh, President, Hotwire
Expedia, Inc.

Ginnie Carlier, EY West Region Talent Leader and Assurance Partner
Ernst & Young LLP

Lynne Walker, Executive Vice President, Director of Affinity Strategy
First Horizon National Corporation

Amy McDonald, President
FONA International, Inc.

Sarah Cohen, Executive Vice President, General Counsel
Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts

Sara Kenkare-Mitra, Senior Vice President, Development Sciences
Genentech

Sheryl Trioani, Senior Director of Accounting
Granite Properties, Inc.

Sarah Lewis-Kulin, Vice President, Best Workplaces List Research Team
Great Place to Work

Laura Fuentes, Senior Vice President of Talent and Rewards
Hilton

Debbie Connelly, Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Hyland

Juanita Phillips, Director of Human Resources
Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation

Kathleen Reidenbach, Chief Commercial Officer
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

Jackie Daylor, National Managing Partner for Audit Quality and Professional Practice
KPMG LLP

Susan Rossnick, Vice President, Engineering and New Product Development
Kronos Incorporated

Stephanie Linnartz, Chief Commercial Officer
Marriott International, Inc.

Carol Ross-Spang, Senior Vice President/Chief Human Resources Officer
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

Sara Dolan, Chief Financial Officer
Michigan State University Federal Credit Union

Patty Arvielo, President
New American Funding

Nancy Humbert, Executive Vice President, Ambulatory Services
Nicklaus Children's Health System

Anne Phillips, Senior Vice President, Clinical Development/Medical/Regulatory Affairs
Novo Nordisk Inc.

Johnni Beckel, Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer
OhioHealth

Sarae Janes Lewis, Director, Communications
Pinnacle Financial Partners

Diana Verdun, Director of Human Resources Plante Moran

EJ Blanchfield, Chief Operating Officer
Point B Inc.

Amity Millhiser, Chief Clients Officer
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Holly Bass, President
Professional Placement Resources, LLC

Susan Haseley, Executive Vice President
Protiviti Inc.

Alison Midili Smith, Vice President of Human Resources
Publix Super Markets Inc.

Ellen McGirt, Senior Editor
raceAhead

Hala Mirza, Head of Corporate Communications
Regeneron

Cindy Robbins, President & Chief People OfficerSalesforce

Jewell Parkinson, Senior Vice President, Head of Human Resources, SAP North America
SAP America Inc.

Oita Coleman, Vice President, Research and Development
SAS Institute Inc.

Artemis Patrick, Chief Merchandising Officer
Sephora US

Stephanie Doliveira, Vice President of Human Resources
Sheetz, Inc.

Jila Javdani, General Manager, Delivery Excellence
Slalom, LLC.

Mary Anna Quinn, Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Kathy Vogt, Senior Vice President, Governance & Operational Excellence
Synchrony Financial

Gabi Novacek, Partner and Managing Director
The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.

Amy Carolvillano, Vice President of Logistics and Distribution
The Container Store

Julia Feldman, Managing Director
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Callie Field, Executive Vice President, Customer Care
T-Mobile USA

Colleen Dolan, Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Transwestern

Amanda Andrade, Chief People OfficerVeterans United Home Loans

Peggy Riley, Director of Employee Communications
Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.

Robynne Sisco, Chief Financial Officer
Workday, Inc.

Ann Marr, Vice President, Global Human Resources
World Wide Technology, Inc.

Co-Chairs and Executive Title Partners for this year's Great Place to Work® For All Summit ^TM are PwC, which lead "Innovations in Partnerships," Workday, which lead "Innovations in Technology", and Accenture, which lead "Innovations in Leadership."

Additional sponsors include Activision Blizzard, Aflac, Alston & Bird, AT&T, Baird, Bombas, Bright Horizons, Cadence, CarMax, Cisco, Comcast NBCUniversal, Custom Ink, Dynamic Signal, EY, Famous4Colors, Four Moon Productions, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Genentech, Globoforce, Hilton, HR Certification Institute, Lavit, LOMA Agency, Marriott International, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Nationwide, O.C. Tanner, Plante Moran, SAP SuccessFactors, Salesforce, SAS and World Wide Technology.

The Summit also unveils A Great Place to Work for All, Bush's new book that redefines great workplaces in the 21^st century. The book features a chapter on Innovation in Leadership introducing a new leadership framework, showing the advantages of what he defines as "For All" leaders. In effect, the times demand executives who not only are business-savvy but also are devoted to fairness, have deep faith in people, and empower all individuals to reach their full human potential.

The Great Place to Work® For All Summit™ is recognized by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to offer Professional Development Credits for the SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠. This event has been approved for 13 Recertification Credit Hours: HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR^®, PHRca^®, SPHR^®, GPHR^®, PHRi™, SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute's^® (HRCI^®).

For press inquiries and to request an interview with Michael C. Bush or any of the 77 award recipients, contact Melissa Krantz at (917) 653-6716 or [email protected].

About Great Place to Work® For All Summit ^TM

The Great Place to Work® For All Summit ^TM assembles executive leaders from Best Workplaces, including the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®, Great Place to Work-Certified organizations, and those newly embarking on their workplace journey. Its mission is to share best practices for creating and championing high-trust cultures that are better for business, better for people, and better for the world.

About Great Place to Work

Great Place to Work is the global authority on high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures. Through its certification programs, Great Place to Work recognizes outstanding workplace cultures and produces the annual FORTUNE "100 Best Companies to Work For®" and Great Place to Work Best Workplaces lists for Millennials, women, diversity, industries and, internationally, countries and regions. Through its culture consulting services, Great Place to Work helps its clients create great workplaces that outpace peers on key business metrics like revenue growth, profitability, retention and stock performance.

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