Cheryl Francis has been the Vice Chairman of the Corporate Leadership Center since 2002 and an independent business and financial advisor since 2000.
From 1995 to 2000, Francis served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, a print media company. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Morningstar, Inc., HNI Corporation and Hewitt Associates.
Francis holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Women have made a lot of gains since I was in college and in business school, but what we've done is fill the pipeline at the lower levels. What we have not done really is to penetrate the real senior leadership roles of most organizations. Corporations is the one that we focus on, but really most...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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