SPOTLIGHT: ALEXANDRA TROWER

Alexandra C. Trower is Executive Vice President, Global Communications at The Estée Lauder Companies, the world’s leading prestige beauty company with more than 30 brands including Estée Lauder, Clinique, M•A•C, La Mer, Jo Malone London and Too Faced.

She is an Executive Officer of the Company, serves on the Executive Leadership Team, is a founding member of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee and is an Executive Co-Sponsor of the Company’s LGBTQA employee resource group. She assumed her current role in 2008, and today oversees corporate, social, crisis, Lauder family and philanthropic communications, including The Estée Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Campaign, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and whose mission is to end breast cancer in our lifetime.

SPOTLIGHT: SHELLEY ZALIS

Shelley Zalis is an internationally-renowned thought leader for advancing equality in the workplace. As the first female chief executive of a company ranked in the research industry’s top 25, she changed the game, helped elevate feminine strengths in the workplace, and has devoted herself to becoming a mentor and role model to women and leaders in her industry.