Anne Chow

Anne is a transformative business leader whose trailblazing corporate career spans over three decades in the technology and business sectors. She is currently Lead Director on the Board of Directors of FranklinCovey and serves on the Board of Directors of 3M and CSX. Additionally, Anne is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. In her prior role, as the first woman of color CEO in AT&T’s 140+ year history, Anne led AT&T Business, a $35B global operating unit comprised of over 35,000 people. Anne’s leadership experiences and expertise over the decades spans product management, marketing, sales, strategy, customer service, operations, network engineering and more. Widely recognized for her role model inclusive leadership and her impact in driving success at the intersection of people, culture, and technology, Anne was named to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business twice, Forbes inaugural CEO Next List of Leaders set to revolutionize American business, as Most Inspiring Woman in Communications by Light Reading, and inducted into the Dallas Business Hall of Fame. She is the best-selling co-author of The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias, and national best-selling author of Lead Bigger: The Transformative Power of Inclusion.