Anne Chow

Former CEO of AT&T Business, Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, 2022 Women in Leadership Institute™ Legend in Leadership

Anne Chow is The Rewired CEO, a transformative, contemporary business leader whose trailblazing corporate career spans over three decades in the technology and business sectors. 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. Currently, Anne is Lead Director on the Board of Directors of FranklinCovey, a company dedicated to organizational transformation through leadership, execution, and culture. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Anne has been widely recognized for her role model inclusive leadership, driving success at the intersection of people, culture, and technology. She’s the best-selling co-author of The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias, published by Simon & Schuster in 2020, and her work has been featured in Fortune, MarketWatch, Entrepreneur, Chief Executive, CBS, and USA Today.

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  • Travels From

    Texas, USA

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Unconscious Bias for Leaders: How To Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams

Every business has unconscious bias. While bias can help organizations make sense of a complex world, it can also derail decision-making, damage employee and customer relationships, and inhibit the performance of teams. As co-author of the ...

Every business has unconscious bias. While bias can help organizations make sense of a complex world, it can also derail decision-making, damage employee and customer relationships, and inhibit the performance of teams. As co-author of the bestselling book The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias, the former CEO of AT&T Business Anne Chow can help your organization recognize its unconscious biases. In this research-based talk, Anne will show how you can identify unconscious bias in yourself (and others), cultivate connections in your organization, and build high-performing teams.

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Courageous Leadership

Good leadership can make the difference between a low-performing organization and a high-performing organization. Companies with good leaders and managers have higher productivity, greater engagement, and more innovation. At the same time, ...

Good leadership can make the difference between a low-performing organization and a high-performing organization. Companies with good leaders and managers have higher productivity, greater engagement, and more innovation. At the same time, companies with poor leadership have higher turnover and less productivity. As a winner of the 2022 Women in Leadership Institute Legend in Leadership, former CEO of AT&T Business Anne Chow understands leadership. In this talk, Anne will share the nine essential leadership characteristics that differentiate ordinary leaders from extraordinary leaders. Audiences will come away understanding the need for compassion, connection, consistency, calling, and more.

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Anchor Your Success in Your Business Culture

You can tell the difference between mediocre companies and successful companies in their business culture. If you look at companies like Apple, Netflix, Ritz-Carlton, and Zappos, you can trace their success back to their culture. The same can be...

You can tell the difference between mediocre companies and successful companies in their business culture. If you look at companies like Apple, Netflix, Ritz-Carlton, and Zappos, you can trace their success back to their culture. The same can be said of companies that took a tumble, like Enron and Thanos—their culture wasn’t strong enough to keep them from scandal. As one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business, Anne Chow understands the importance of culture in success. In this talk based on her leadership experience, audiences will come away understanding how to create a lasting culture by building trust and transparency, so they can improve relationships, performance, transformation, and growth.

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About Keynote Speaker Anne Chow

Anne Chow is a transformative business leader whose trailblazing corporate career spans over three decades in the technology and business sectors. 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 more than 30,000 people. Appointed to this role in 2019, Anne guided this team through the pandemic in the midst of unprecedented market upheaval around the world, serving 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. Her leadership experiences span product management, marketing, sales, strategy, customer service, operations, network engineering and more. Currently Anne is Lead Director on the Board of Directors of FranklinCovey and a board member of 3M.

Widely recognized for her role-model inclusive leadership, driving success at the intersection of people, culture and technology, she was named to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business twice, Forbes inaugural CEO Next List of Leaders set to revolutionize American business, and Most Inspiring Woman in Communications by Light Reading, and she received a Gold Stevie Award as Female Executive of the Year – Business Services. Anne has also been chosen as one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Gender Equity.

As a lifelong learner committed to inspiration and impact, Anne engages with audiences through keynotes, panel discussions and as a best-selling coauthor of The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams. She also shares thoughts through her publications and social posts which have been featured in Fortune, Chief Executive Magazine, The Huffington Post, MarketWatch, and USA Today. She holds a BS and an MEng 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.

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