Changemakers Bela Bajaria, Netflix chief content material officer, and PEAK6 co-founder Jenny Just, at the 2025 Changemakers Summit in Los Angeles with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin.
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CNBC is now accepting nominations for our third annual Changemakers list.
The list acknowledges women reworking enterprise and philanthropy, feminine leaders who’ve completed a significant achievement in 2025. The aim of our list is to spotlight trailblazing women who’ve defied the odds — women now run a document 11% of Fortune 500 firms, a quantity that is been on the rise over the previous decade. But that document quantity nonetheless represents a large gender hole, and it is truly rising in key roles throughout company America, making the annual CNBC list more important than ever.
Women who’re leaders at firms and organizations (together with philanthropies) with at the very least $25 million in annual income in at the very least considered one of the previous three years, or an enterprise worth of $100 million for personal firms and $250 million for public firms can submit a nomination.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, Nov. 21 at 11:59 pm EST.
The list will likely be introduced in February 2026, and our third annual Changemakers Summit will happen in April.
Our CNBC Changemakers Advisory Board of skilled leaders throughout enterprise and philanthropy will assist us decide the weight of standards used to pick out the women acknowledged, and assist us determine an inclusive group of women. Returning to lend their steerage and experience this yr:
- Marcela Miguel Berland, Latin Insights Founder & President
- Tory Burch, Tory Burch LLC Executive Chairman & Chief Creative Officer; Tory Burch Foundation Founder
- Emma Carrasco, NBCUniversal News Group Senior VP of Corporate Affairs
- Karen Finerman, Metropolitan Capital Advisors CEO & Co-Founder and CNBC Contributor
- Ken Frazier, General Catalyst’s Health Assurance Initiatives Chairman; former Merck Chairman & CEO
- Desiree Gruber, Full Picture Founder & CEO
- Oscar Munoz, former United Airlines Chairman & CEO and CNBC Contributor
- Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective Founder & President
- Merline Saintil, Rocket Lab Lead Independent Director; Black Women on Boards Co-Founder
- Sheryl Sandberg, LeanIn.org & OptionB.org Founder
- Dr. Stacy Smith, Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Founder
Changemakers, like the women who have been featured on 2025 and 2024 lists, are taking novel approaches to previous enterprise issues and figuring out new enterprise alternatives. Help us to spotlight the work of women who’re succeeding, innovating and driving change at their organizations and past.
Submit a nomination for the 2026 CNBC Changemakers list.