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What can a 3,000-year-old practice teach modern leaders about focus? For Chief Member Kira Halevy ☕, an entrepreneur and brand communication strategist, Shabbat is about more than her personal life. The weekly day of rest that she’s observed her entire life has also shaped how she leads. Every Friday at sundown, everything stops: No phones, no screens, no email. As an Orthodox Jewish woman, she calls it her lifeline. In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, Kira distilled what she’s learned from her Shabbat practice into five principles any leader can use, regardless of their faith or background.

There's no better way to cap off API Heritage Month than with some healthy competition around the Mahjong table. Throughout May, we celebrated by hearing lessons of resilience from Tina Tchen, former Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama, reflecting on the inspiring authenticity of Olympian Alysa Liu, and more. And, when we asked our API Members how they wanted to celebrate this year, the answer was overwhelming: participate in the traditions, don't just talk about them. Chief Members and their guests gathered across the country to learn Chinese Mahjong. It was a smash hit. Members in Washington, D.C. and NYC stayed through closing as they played "just one more." To carry the tradition forward, select Clubhouses are making these new Mahjong sets available for member use. We can't wait to host your next Mahjong night.

Chief is back on the Croisette June 23–24 thanks to our partners Basis, VaynerX, and Girl Hike CIC. Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the industry's biggest stage for what creativity can do. We're using our two days there to dig into trust, agentic AI, and what leadership actually looks like when the workplace is being rebuilt in real time — the conversations every CEO and CMO in the room is craving right now. Swipe for the full lineup, including:  — A morning beach walk and guided meditation with Girl Hike CIC to start Tuesday intentionally, hosted by founder Alaina Crystal —  Sofia C. Hernandez, Advisor & Former Global Head of Marketing & Partnerships, TikTok and Chief CEO Alison Moore on trust across four generations of talent — Avery Akkineni, CMO, VaynerX, Lara Hood Balazs, CMO, Adobe, and Alison Moore on leading in the human-agentic era Open to Cannes Lions badgeholders and Chief Members alike, we can't wait to see you on the Croisette.

Tina Tchen shared lessons from her career journey across corporate law and the White House with Chief Members in honor of API Heritage Month. One such lesson? Breaking down silos and hierarchies increases the opportunities for good people to do good work.

The pause is the point. To the multihyphenate women who wear a dozen hats: hang them up this weekend.

The API leaders in our community consistently demonstrate what it means to lead with innovation, fortitude, and creativity. Congratulations to the Asian and Pacific Islander Chiefs who have made their mark in the past year. ✨ New positions: — Emily Fong Mitchell, CEO at Lornamead Products — Anamika Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, U.S. at TeKnowledge — Anu Mandapati, PCC, PHR, SHRM-CP, Chief People Officer at Emancipet — Arthe Sampath, Executive Vice President, AI Business Strategy at PennyMac — Selene Ng, Senior Vice President, Growth at United Talent Agency — Nazia Raoof, Senior Vice President, Business Transformation at Cotiviti — Laura Chun, Director, Enterprise Technology Risk & Controls Governance Lead at BlackRock — Tiffany Cruz Oates, Esq., Director, Global Sports Consulting Practice at Secretariat Advisors — Stephanie M. Wei, CFA, Wealth Advisor at Ashton Thomas Private Wealth ✨ Promotions: — Palak J., CEO at AccessHealth — Amrita Mahabaleswara, Partner at Merus Global Investments — April Joy Damian, PhD, MSc, CHPM, PMP, Chief Scientific Officer and Director at the Weitzman Institute — Usheen Davar, Team Lead, Advertising Sales & Partnerships at Fullspan Health ✨ Entrepreneurial Ventures: — Tze Chun, Goodside — Gina Junio, PHR, Bayan & Bay — Maithili Shenoy, La Naia Collective — Saba Syed, PharmD, MS, MBA, BCACP, BCGP, ValueRx Consulting ✨New Board Seats: — Asha Aravindakshan, GW Alumni — Auditi Chakravarty, Aspen Institute’s Rising Generations Strategy Group — Madeeha Tobiason, American Cancer Society in Greater NYC ✨Awards and recognition:  — Mira Bhatia, one of Women in Retail’s 2026 Top Women in Retail — Xu Cheng, one of CDO Magazine’s Global Data Power Women for 2026 — Nishtha Jain,  one of Women Impact Tech’s 2025 Leaders of Impact — Amanda Ma, SCMSDC’s Supplier of the Year Award — Lynn Pina, one of Forbes’ 50 Entrepreneurial CMOs — Neetu Radhakrishnan, one of Women We Admire’s Top 50 Women Leaders of 2025 — Preethi Santhanam, 2025 Houston Business Journal HR Impact Award — Vivienne Wei, Operations Council’s 2025 COO of the Year — Tina Engineer-McRae celebrated the 18-year anniversary of her company, M SEARCH, Executive Search & Leadership Advisory — Miya Nazzaro’s law firm, Nazzaro PLLC, received a 2025 Comcast Rise Award ✨Publications: — Samina B., I Can, I Will & I Did: Lessons on Life, Love, and Leadership — Lucy Chen, Good Moms DO Cry: Raising Resilient Kids as an Immigrant Parent

Chief is heading to Boston Tech Week with Clair Health to unpack why women deserve health tech that's built for them, not around them. Women have been underrepresented in clinical research, product design, and data modeling for decades. The AI being built on top of that data is inheriting the gap. Jenny D., Co-Founder and CEO of Clair, is building the first non-invasive continuous hormone tracker for women. She'll join Andrea Kowalski, Senior Vice President of Provider Product Solutions at Datavant, Amanda Ducach, MBA, CEO and Co-Founder of Ema - AI for Women's Health, and Roshanie Ross, Chief Experience Officer at Chief, to talk through where today's models fall short on female biology, what "designed for women from day one" actually looks like in practice, and how continuous, real-time data could reshape the care equation. Chief Members: RSVP link in our comments.

Moving fast with AI is easy. Moving with discernment? That’s much harder — and according to Chief Member Grace Briscoe, it’s what will define successful leadership in the age of AI. In our Beyond Speed: Women Leading in the AI Era report, we found that 68% of women leaders are using AI to amplify human talent, not replace it. Grace sees that tension firsthand in the advertising and AI ecosystem, where adoption is accelerating rapidly and pressure for efficiency continues to rise. But as she writes, while AI can accelerate production, it cannot replace discernment, strategic thinking, relationship-building, or human judgment. That’s why the organizations that succeed long term won’t simply be the ones moving the fastest. They’ll be the ones most intentional about how humans and AI work together. Read Grace’s full perspective below. https://lnkd.in/gjsNxj3d

In the first of five Chief Salons — our new half-day gatherings designed for intimate, peer-led conversations — Boston-based Chief Members will gather to explore Authenticity in the Age of AI. Each Salon explores a question senior leaders are actually working through right now. Boston's programming, curated by Community Manager Maddy McLaughlin, will offer peer conversations led by Felicia Newhouse, PhD and tailored interactive workshops. There's no better place to dig into our human advantages than a city known for bridging classical artistry and technological innovation. We'll see you in Boston soon, Chiefs. Seattle, Atlanta, Washington D.C., and San Francisco: you're next.

This API Heritage Month, Chief Members will celebrate by donning a lapel pin featuring Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu — known for walking away from the sport at the height of expectation, then returning on her own terms to win gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Games. That kind of clarity about what success looks like, and the conviction to chase it your own way, is leadership worth honoring. Inspired by Alysa, Chief Members took a moment to reflect on how they’re redefining success, choosing themselves, and leading with authenticity. Read on to hear from: — Devasena Gnanashanmugam, M.D., Physician Executive — Hope Gong, Executive Coach — Jocelyn Loleng, Media Partnerships Consultant at The Content Exchange — Nazia Raoof, Senior Vice President, Business Transformation at Cotiviti — Reema Pinto, Global Head, Design & Strategy at Method