Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai, in full Pichai Sundararajan, (born June 10, 1972, Madras [now Chennai], Tamil Nadu, India), Indian-born American executive who was CEO of both Google, Inc. (2015– ), and its holding company, Alphabet Inc. (2019– ). As a boy growing up in Madras, Pichai slept with his brother in the living room of the cramped family home, but his […]
Melissa Reiff, CEO of The Container Store
Melissa Reiff is the new face of the much beloved The Container Store. Many people are still unaware of the change in the leadership guard that took place last July. Reiff took over for long-time CEO Kip Tindell, who founded the company in 1978 and has since stayed on as chairman after stepping down. One thing […]
David K. Williams, chairman and CEO of Fishbowl
David K. Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of Fishbowl, a private company in Orem, Utah that produces inventory management software once called Fishbowl Inventory and now separated into two separate products called Fishbowl Manufacturing and Fishbowl Warehouse. Williams wrote a book for business professionals entitled The 7 Non-Negotiables of Winning: Tying Soft Traits to Hard Results. It was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. […]
Sylvia Metayer, CEO of Sodexo Corporate Services Worldwide
Sylvia Metayer has been CEO Corporate Services worldwide and a member of the Group’s Executive Committee since 2015. Sylvia first joined Sodexo in 2006 as Group Financial Controller, and was later appointed CFO for Sodexo’s On-Site Services operations in Europe, taking an active part in the preparation of large, complex tenders. From 2010, prior to […]
Harold MacDowell, CEO of TDIndustries
TDIndustries is a leading mechanical construction and facilities service company in Dallas. MacDowell is the third CEO at TDIndustries, following in the footsteps of his predecessors–demigods in the servant leadership spectrum: founder Jack Lowe, Sr. and his son, Jack Lowe, Jr. As the CEO since 2005, MacDowell continues to deepen TD’s commitment to servant […]
Kristen Hadeed, founder and CEO of Student Maid
In 2009, as a junior at the University of Florida, Hadeed started Student Maid, an all-student cleaning company that has since grown into a business that has employed hundreds of Millennials. She met leadership failure right out of the gate. When 45 of her first 60 employees quit, she realized she was the reason. “The […]
Brittany Merrill Underwood, founder and CEO of Akola Jewelry
Underwood is a clear example of a servant leader practicing conscious capitalism to transform the lives of impoverished women and families. Through her nonprofit social business, Akola’s jewelry line is the first Full-Impact Brand to be sold in the luxury space through their national launch in Neiman Marcus. (Watch her story here.) Akola reinvests 100 […]
Garry Ridge, CEO of WD-40 Company
Chances are, you’ll probably find a can of WD-40 in your garage. Garry Ridge, who calls himself the “chief” of the WD-40 “tribe,” is a big believer in creating lasting memories in his staff’s minds every day. He attributes this as the key to having built the company’s success during his 22-year tenure. Ridge passionately […]
Bob Chapman, CEO of Barry-Wehmiller
Chapman became chief executive officer of family-owned Barry-Wehmiller in 1975 at age 30, after the untimely death of his father. Today, $2-plus billion Barry-Wehmiller is a combination of more than 80 acquired companies with over 11,000 team members in more than 100 locations around the globe. As Chapman states in his book, Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary […]
Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
Bachelder’s story, documented in her book, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others, is the most compelling case study to showcase the power of servant leadership to reinvent a company from the inside out. This was also compelling enough for me to award her the No.1 ranking. When she was named CEO in […]