CEO Interview Series: Lisa Maki, CEO of PokitDok

Lisa Maki is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-founder and CEO of PokitDok, a platform-as-a-service making it faster and easier for healthcare organizations to bring new applications and services to market. When PokitDok was acquired by Change Healthcare, Lisa returned to her roots at Microsoft where she started her career, now serving as Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Health Next.

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CEO Interview Series: Susan Ehrlich, CEO of Earnest

Learn how Susan Ehrlich , CEO of Earnest, creates a company culture that is highly competitive but also highly collaborative, why she cannot have a bad day, books that have changed her life, how she transformed from a shy kid who wouldn’t raise her hand in class to a CEO, the unique proposition she had to agree to before taking the Earnest CEO role and how she sleeps so well at night and how she stays calm under pressure.

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Busting 3 Myths About What Makes Successful CEOs

We’ve grown up in a society that values specific attributes and achievements—ones that often apply primarily to men and limit opportunities for women leaders. A few different research studies have examined what makes successful CEOs and leaders. The takeaway: Nearly everything we’ve thought about CEOs is wrong. CEOX can help your executive search by evaluating candidates on leadership skills that really make someone successful.

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Let’s Stop Thinking About Confidence As Another Problem for Women to Solve

Women Leaders and aspiring women CEOs often struggle to recognize their worth. This lack of confidence isn’t actually women’s fault. It’s the result of an educational and business culture that has devalued the contributions of women from the very beginning. And that it has resulted in an upper echelon of leadership that still includes so few women isn’t a surprise—it’s the natural consequence.

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As long as they're qualified...

I don’t care whether the person is a man or woman as long as they’re qualified. It’s time to reconsider how biased systems inform what we think of as qualified. By opening our minds to the different—but valuable experiences and leadership skills—of talented women, we can diversify our CEO ranks, and reap the rewards that follow.

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CEO Interview Series #1: Rita Hansen, CEO of Onboard Dynamics

This educational series is intended for women who are aspiring to be CEOs. Today we talk with Rita Hansen, CEO of Onboard Dynamics and learn How being buried alive in a glacier has shaped her success in business, what she wishes she had realized as a young woman, how sponsors and champions helped her in her career, her struggles with reshaping her BOD and why it had to be done.

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