List acknowledges feminine leaders who’re impacting society, difficult established enterprise practices and driving industry-wide change
First episode of recent unique podcast “CNBC Changemakers & Power Players” available now
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., September 30, 2025 — CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, immediately introduced the opening of nominations for the third CNBC Changemakers: Women Transforming Business listing. The unranked listing, impressed by CNBC Senior Media & Technology Correspondent Julia Boorstin’s best-selling ebook, “When Women Lead,” will acknowledge a distinguished group of girls whose accomplishments have left a mark on the enterprise world and who’re paving a path ahead. The CNBC Changemakers listing will characteristic ladies from firms and philanthropic organizations throughout all sectors of the economic system and across the globe.
Like the earlier CNBC Changemakers lists, honorees could have crossed significant monetary milestones, achieved vital enterprise outcomes, challenged conventional management fashions, solved outdated issues with new approaches, and recognized untapped alternatives previously yr. They shall be acknowledged for setting new requirements for fulfillment and administration, overcoming gender limitations and serving as position fashions for all.
The nomination course of for CNBC Changemakers begins immediately, September 30, 2025, and runs by way of November 21, 2025, at 11:59pm ET. Nominations are open to ladies in senior management roles at firms with not less than $25 million in annual income in not less than one of many previous three years or with an enterprise worth of not less than $100 million for personal firms or $250 million for public firms. The listing shall be chosen with a data-driven strategy that considers the quantitative and qualitative affect and significance of every nominee’s contribution to their {industry} or sector in 2025. Complete particulars on the best way to apply will be discovered right here: cnbc.com/changemakers.
The CNBC editorial group will work with the CNBC Changemakers Advisory Board, a gaggle of high lecturers, administration specialists and enterprise icons, to find out the load of quantitative and qualitative standards that shall be used to pick the ultimate listing.
CNBC Changemakers Advisory Board members:
- Marcela Miguel Berland, Latin Insights Founder & President
- Julia Boorstin, CNBC Senior Media & Tech Correspondent
- Tory Burch, Tory Burch LLC Executive Chairman & Chief Creative Officer; Tory Burch Foundation Founder
- Emma Carrasco, NBCUniversal News Group Senior Vice President 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 CEO & Chairman United Airlines and CNBC Contributor
- Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective Founder & President
- Dina Powell McCormick, BDT & MSD Partners Vice Chair, President & Global Head of Client Services; 2024 CNBC Changemaker
- Merline Saintil, Rocket Lab Lead Independent Director; Black Women on Boards Co-Founder
- Sheryl Sandberg, LeanIn.org and OptionB.org Founder
- Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Founder
The CNBC Changemakers listing shall be introduced in February 2026 and an occasion celebrating the 2026 CNBC Changemakers will happen within the spring. More particulars shall be launched within the coming weeks.
In conjunction with the decision for this yr’s nominations, CNBC additionally debuted the brand new unique podcast, CNBC Changemakers & Power Players immediately. Hosted by Boorstin, the podcast options in-depth, candid interviews with feminine innovators, executives, and entrepreneurs—from the CNBC Changemakers listing and past—who’re reshaping the way forward for enterprise. From tech and finance to sports activities, leisure, and well being, these ladies share the methods behind their success and the challenges they’ve overcome to steer with affect. The premiere episode is available now with new episodes each Tuesday. Follow and hearken to CNBC Changemakers & Power Players on all main podcast platforms.
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