Global Women’s Impact Forum 2025: The former CEO of Pepsi in the family’s profession and sorcery

“There are many women who work as a spine of the country.”

That was one of the closing lines of Indra K. Noii, former president and CEO of Pepsico, in Newsweek Global Impact Forum for opening women on Tuesday 5 August 2025, in Newsweek The headquarters in New York City.

The event collection for one day, sponsored by Myeyedr. , With Starz and Trinet partners, 300 senior executives and emerging stars through multiple industries to celebrate the achievements made by women, communicate with inspiring women and find practical solutions to overcome some of the biggest challenges that they still face in the workplace.

On the stage, companies ‘leaders such as WNBA, Soulcycle, Nissan, Samsung, Hulken, Coach, Estée Lauder, and girls’ scouts in the United States participated in personal stories about their professional trips and conflicts as women in the workplace.

While conversations noted the unique challenges of industries such as sports, fashion, retail, beauty, technology and health care, women inside and outside the theater have found common ground. Most women in the room have witnessed discrimination, failure, rebuilding the company and antichrist syndrome.

At the core of the conversations, each speaker served as what he means to be a strong and effective leader today and in the future.

Give priority to wellness

During the “Giving Priority Committee”, the speakers agreed that good leaders are taking their well -being seriously.

Sakara co -founder of Sakara stressed the importance of “checking your engine light” by listening to your body to prevent fatigue.

“So I say that the first thing is to reach this place where you can know when your body listens,” she said. Then secondly, as soon as you listen, as I know that my throat gets a little traditional, I say to myself, “Well, I need more comfort. I need more vegetables and plants, or you just need to benefit a little. “

The CEO of Soulcycle Evelyn Webster said that the leaders “put the weather” for their organizations, so it is important to be consistent.

“I can say when I don’t invest in my wellness because of the way I start controlling the temperature in the institution, and this is not a good thing.”

“Over time, when I invested in my wellness, I am happy and a better person,” she said. “When you are in good health, you are happy and we are all worthy to be happy.”

As the leader of an exercise company, you see every day how the endorphin makes its customers and trainers happier, think clearly, communicate better and help them enable them to better driving and inspiring.

Search for them and be a guide

The guidance was a fundamental principle that allowed many women to prosper/climbing companies.

“Girls are doing what he can see,” said scout girls from the CEO of the United States of America, Bonnie Parikovsky.

Alison Witherspoon, head of the marketing organization in the United States, said about “leadership: new measures to succeed” that she is grateful to many male mentors who have had the opportunity throughout her career.

But she was not even worked with an executive director who said that she began to “understand what it takes to be a leader of this, and then what is similar to being a woman in this role.”

“This was the first time I saw someone, I thought somewhat, perhaps I can be in a leadership position as well,” she said.

Clinique and Dermatological Brands, General Manager Kelly Fanning, shared how its mother company, Estée Lauder, has gave a “reverse guidance” where executive managers make upper leadership. By this, Vanning said she learned how to look at Tiktok and Sephora to shops and artificial intelligence tools in new ways.

“So the reverse network was great,” she said. “It is fun to be able to see this executive level, you are still learning.”

Using experience from other jobs

Whether on the stage or in the audience, women participate in the life of experiences. However, as with many successful people, their trips were not written. Whether this is a full promotion or change in the industry, a good leader can take all their cumulative experiences and skills and bring them a new role.

These soft skills or traditional female skills are often seen as harm in the workplace, but women in this event said that it was the things that allowed them to succeed.

While building the myeyedr optics network. Sue Download that women tend to be more attention to the behavior of others and have more sympathy for the needs of others. I told the audience that being a leader does not mean forgetting who you are women.

“Don’t be afraid to be a really wonderful mother,” she advised. “If you are at the Board of Directors meeting and call my child, I am excused from myself. Do what you want to do and no one else will judge him.”

Before she was a WNBA Commissioner, Cathy Engelbert was the first chief executive of DELOTTE. When she jumped from consulting to sport, she said she was initially afraid because she knew “nothing about being a delegate running a sporty periodic.”

“I was CPA. I was an accountant. I worked in the drug industry. I worked on bank customers. I worked in consumer products, but I don’t know anything about playing sports,” she said.

But after landing in this position, she quickly found that many of her skills are convertable-including planning for the strategy to care for players, fans and shareholders, and planning scenario during the draft in the Covid-19s and the executive marketing to convert a team that is not made from resources into league with more than 100 million fans.

Listening and delivering the needs of stakeholders

The good leader is the person who listens – for colleagues, clients and trends. This includes relying on the trends that are in line with the company’s values and goals and starting from the learning location in the meeting room.

Alex Schinasi, CEO of Hulken Company, has talked about how its bag has been transferred to the “really absence” task of ridding things into the hottest accessories of New York City. From make-up artists to grandmothers to get groceries to mothers accompanying car to play football-Hulken flourishes the content created by the user and the original reviews.

“Shalbing is global,” she said. “By relying on this, we actually created a sense of originality, from honesty, that our audience can really be associated with it. So this feeling of intercourse with the mark is very impressive.”

When entering a new company or council, it is important to monitor the company and learn it as much as possible from the jump.

Bridget Ryan Berman, Member of the Board of Directors of the Automotive Group, Newell Brands and Tanger Inc. , On the “Women on Boards” painting on how to make an effect on a variety of shapes and enhances time and experience. She said that good leaders did not lead the ego.

She said, “Often, people are trying to overcome themselves,” she said. She said: “You see this often in the meeting hall, you read about the people who come and want to take oxygen throughout the room,” she said. “It is really related to becoming a student in that company, business and industry they tend to on the first day.”

Dismantling the legend of the existence of everything

Finally, in a room of women who are accomplished and strong, there is permanent pressure “for everything”. But in the last chat today, Evra Nuii closed the legend being perfect.

“You cannot be average to be a mother, and a medium in being a wife and average in being an executive official … You must be good in the job, and the burden falls on us [women]”So I look at all this and say, we lie to women that you can get everything. Let’s be honest and say it is difficult. It is a sorcery. I just hope that the most important balls will not fall.”

Part of the dismantling of the expectation of everything is authentic, even when things are difficult.

Melody Lee, head of marketing coordination at Mercedes -Benz, the United States of America, said in the leadership committee that she wished that the previous generation of working women would be more at risk and sincere when they failed.

She said: “Women before they feel pressure so that you do not see cracks … but they are not a linear path.”

The standards are not dismantled only for the office – women also work to get rid of their health and bodies.

During “female institutions: mobility in the Ecological System Committee in Entrepreneurship” earlier in the day, the founder of Megabe Katie Stuinto participated in how to fight it with the acceptance of the body and the fear of the thigh that inspired the launch of its company that aims to alleviate the physical problems facing women, but it is often sad to discuss.

In addition, Dr. Jessica Chaibard, the chief medical official of her salary, and Janein Versesi, co -founder and CEO of Elektra Health, discussed how there is still a lot of shame and lack of information surrounding menopause.

By being authentic, attentive, adaptable and open to building communications, women can flourish in all industries and levels of experience in the workplace. Women have made incredible steps in the professional world, but there is a lot of work to do. We hope that women at the Women’s Global Impact Forum will be inspired enough to return these lessons to their organizations and start enhancing change.

Scout girls also put the CEO of the United States of America Bonnie Parikovsky in a statement to Newsweek“If the energy in the room is any indication of filling the change – we are on our way!”