Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit Is All About the Sisterhood: raceAhead
In a moving conversation, former PepsiCo chair and CEO Indra Nooyi says that unconscious bias can only be eradicated if a sisterhood of women call it out.
Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit international edition is in full swing and with an all-star line-up, including P&G group president, North America Carolyn Tastad, Blanca Treviño, President and CEO, Softtek, and Jean Yoon, the trailblazing star of the Kim’s Convenience, the award-winning Netflix show about a Korean family living and working in Canada, now in its fourth season.
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If you only have time for one update, do check out this powerful conversation between former PepsiCo chair and CEO Indra Nooyi and Fortune’s Nina Easton, who talk about what it was like for the former CEO to step away from the top spot.
In a word, liberating.
“When you’re a female, colored woman, immigrant serving as a CEO of a large company and undertaking a transformation, there are tons of critics,” she said. “All the time you were in the public eye trying to answer the critics. So it was a grind all the time.”
Now, she’s working on a new book that she hopes will create a “sisterhood” of women leaders.
“It’s very, very important that we stop talking about unconscious bias, and start doing something about it,” she said. “The onus is not just on the men. It’s on the women.”
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