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 POWER Advocate Award

A key part of POWER’s mission is to:

  • Empower people to be their best self at every phase of their career.
  • Create a safe, inclusive, welcoming environment where everyone can realize their personal value.
  • And foster connection, community, and commitment.

Founded in 2019, Power’s Advocate Award, sponsored by Cigna Healthcare, has honored leaders who have made it a priority to support the growth and mentorship of women at every stage of their career in their business. By honoring them and telling their stories, we hope to inspire others to take notice of their leadership and the lasting positive impact gender diversity has had in their organizations.

About the Triangle

When designing the brand for this special program, we chose the triangle as the focus of our logo because:

  • The Triangle is the strongest shape.
  • Any added force is evenly spread through all three sides.
  • The overlapping triangles show that you need to share at least part of a side or angle in order to support each other.
  • These sides represent women in business supported by men in business which contributes to the growth of the business.
  • The triangles are pointing upward to illustrate positive direction and stability of all of the sides working together to support each other.
  • While connecting the triangles symbolizes the harmony that is achieved when all sides are united.

Lindsay Johnston, POWER President

“In today’s dynamic workplace landscape, the importance of female sponsorship cannot be overstated. It goes beyond individual success; it’s about creating a culture of support, mentorship, and empowerment. At the heart of Power’s mission is the unwavering commitment to fostering an environment where women not only excel but also uplift one another. By championing the cause of female sponsorship, we aim to pave the way for a more inclusive and diverse professional world.”

 

 

 Thanks to our presenting sponsor, Cigna Healthcare.

“Advocacy and mentoring play an important and significant role in advancing the careers of women in the workplace. Our team is proud to support the POWER Advocate Awards and the important work they are doing to empower the next generation of women in Philadelphia.  We are committed to creating more opportunities for women to advance within our own organization and in our community, and through our partnership with POWER we are working together to provide women with access to programming and resources to achieve their potential in the workforce.”

– Sally Schufreider, General Manager for Cigna Healthcare in Liberty Valley

Cigna Healthcare is a health benefits provider that advocates for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality.

With a growing need for behavioral health care, we are broadening the services available to address, connect, and deliver support for mental health needs. We make it easier and quicker for people to get support and care in person, digitally, and over the phone. We meet people where they are and help them navigate available health care services to get them access to care however, they need it. We deploy tools, resources, and personal advocates to work with people and their health care providers to help proactively connect body and mind. Our expertise in data and analytics helps create a health care ecosystem to support the people we serve.  For more information visit Cigna Healthcare.com

Our Featured Speaker – Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an author, an economist and an entrepreneur.  She is CEO of Hewlett Consulting Partners and founder of the Center for Talent Innovation, a think tank where she built a Task Force of 90 global companies focused on Leadership in an Age of Inclusion. Dr. Hewlett’s high-profile books quantify the “value of difference,” and provide vivid word portraits of highly qualified women, people of color and LGBTQ employees attempting to gain traction in their careers. Organizations as different as Cisco (’19), Goldman Sachs (’20), DraftKings (’21), Cartier (’21) and the State Department (’21) find her presentations, which blend hard data with in-depth storytelling and concrete solutions, immensely helpful in their urgent efforts to create more inclusive leadership cultures.

Dr. Hewlett has the distinction of being the most published author ever in the Harvard Business Review (17 articles and counting). She’s also written 16 critically acclaimed books, some of which are bestsellers. They include When the Bough Breaks (winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award); Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor (an Audible bestseller); Executive Presence (an Amazon Best Book of the Month); and #MeToo in the Corporate World (an Inc. magazine Best Book of the Year). She has been honored by Google with its Global Diversity Award and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Hewlett is a celebrated speaker. She has presented at Davos and at the Mobile World Congress, keynoted the FT conference on “Women at the Top,” and spoken at the White House. She is also a Glamour magazine “Woman of the Year,” has been interviewed on 60 Minutes, Panorama, Oprah, Morning Joe and PBS Newshour—and has been lampooned on Saturday Night Live. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times and Vogue.  She is an Influencer on LinkedIn.

Dr. Hewlett has taught at Cambridge, Columbia, and Princeton universities. A graduate of Cambridge University, she won a Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard University and earned her Ph.D. in economics at London University. Dr. Hewlett, who grew up in a family of six sisters in a coal mining community in South Wales, has made her home in New York City.  She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband and children.

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This Year’s Award Winners

  • The Advocate Award:  Joseph McLaughlin, Jr., Chairman & CEO, The Haverford Trust Company
  • The Advocate Award:  Molly Shepard, Founder & Executive Advisor, The Leader’s Edge
  • The Quiet Champion of Change:
    • Rajvir Madan, Chief Digital & Information Technology Officer, Arcutis Biotherapeutics
    • Coleen Kramer Beal, Financial Advisor, Janney Montgomery Scott

Previous Advocate Award Winners

2023

  • Celebration of Advocacy with a panel, but no winners.

2022

  • Daniel Graziano- Santander Bank
  • Hal Yoh- Day & Zimmerman

2021

  • Steve Collis- AmerisourceBergen (now Cencora)
  • Adam Ross- Grant Thornton
  • Sean Denham- Grant Thornton
  • Michael Cairns- Grant Thornton

2020

  • Postponed due to covid.

2019

  • Bob Cane- formerly with UGI Corporation
  • David Cohen- Formerly with Comcast Corporation