Abbott CIO talks about motivation, legacy

Zoetis CEO: COVID-19 allowed me to rewrite the role | Abbott CIO talks about motivation, legacy | How can employee negotiations be more equitable? Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( October 6, 2022 CONNECT WITH NEXTUP  [LinkedIn]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( €‰€‰[Tik tok]( [NEW SmartBrief]( Gender equity news from NextUp, Advancing All Women in Business [SIGN UP]( â‹… [SHARE]( [] Top of the week [] [Zoetis CEO: COVID-19 allowed me to rewrite the role]( [Zoetis CEO: COVID-19 allowed me to rewrite the role]( Peck (Zoetis) As a self-described "frustrated optimist," Zoetis CEO Kristin Peck says the pandemic gave her an opportunity "to rewrite the book on what it was going to be like for me to be a CEO." She took the job just a couple of months before the pandemic began, and having children at home -- one with a serious medical condition -- deepened her empathy for employees. "I think it helped me relate to where my colleagues were, and to prioritize what mattered probably faster than I would have expected. I was very connected with colleagues interestingly, more than I probably would have been had I traveled the world," Peck says. Full Story: [Fortune (tiered subscription model)]( (9/21) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Today's leadership [] [Abbott CIO talks about motivation, legacy]( Sabina Ewing, global CIO and vice president of business and technology services at Abbott, says her career is in the second lap of an 800-meter run, which is the time to open her stride and think about the finish line, or her legacy. Ewing is motivated by Abbott's mission in life sciences, a committed leadership team and the demand to bring technology out of the back office and into the spotlight, and she wants to leave knowing others are "in a position to unleash their own full potential" and having helped "[demystify] the notion of what it looks like when you have female leadership and when you have a person of color." Full Story: [CIO (free registration)]( (9/29) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [How can employee negotiations be more equitable?]( Organizations and employees often believe myths about career negotiations that can hinder women's potential to advance, write Kathryn Valentine, CEO of Worthmore Strategies, and Hannah Riley Bowles, senior lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School. They dispel three common myths in the workplace: that men negotiate and women do not, that women need to negotiate pay to close the gender wage gap and that backlash against negotiation is inevitable. 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