6th Annual #GetOnBoard Week: How Women Lead Honors Visionary Impact and Advocacy in 2025

Maggie Wilderotter and Perkins Coie Receive Top Honors at the 6th Annual #GetOnBoard Week Awards

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- How Women Lead, a powerful network of more than 25,000 influential women executives committed to accelerating female leadership, is proud to announce the honorees of its 6th Annual #GetOnBoard Week Awards. 

These distinguished awards spotlight visionary leaders and trailblazing organizations driving equity at the highest levels of corporate leadership. The Awards Ceremony, sponsored by Visa and PNC Bank, will be held in San Francisco during #GetOnBoard Week, a summit focused on advocacy and actionable strategies to propel women into board roles. This year's hybrid conference will take place September 8–12, 2025, and is expected to engage more than 2,000 participants across 30 unique events, both online and in person, across the U.S.

The 2025 #GetOnBoard Week Honorees

Fearless Leader Award – Maggie Wilderotter, Board Director
Maggie Wilderotter is being honored for her profound influence on women in board leadership, having personally helped more than 700 people secure board roles. A seasoned executive, she has led both Fortune 500 companies and start-ups as CEO and has built one of the most extensive board portfolios in the country—serving on more than 35 public company boards and 14 private company boards, including Costco Wholesale Corporation, Sana Biotechnology, and DocuSign, where she currently serves as Board Chair.

At Costco, she has helped guide a board that continues to stand firm in its values, even under pressure, demonstrating that integrity and long-term vision are pathways to sustained business success. In 2025, Costco's Board of Directors "chose early and definitively to keep their DEI efforts alive," underscoring the company's leadership in aligning values with performance.

"From her very first board seat to her current stewardship across dozens of boards, Maggie has built a powerful legacy of mentorship and opportunity, helping hundreds of women ascend to board leadership," said Julie Castro Abrams, CEO of How Women Lead. "She proves that courage, commitment, and conviction can reshape boardrooms for the better. She exemplifies the How Women Lead Credo: be fierce advocates for each other and say yes to helping one another. We are thrilled to honor her at this year's #GetOnBoard Week."

Disrupter Award – Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm dedicated to helping clients solve the legal and business challenges of tomorrow. How Women Lead is honoring Perkins Coie for its principled defense of the rule of law and steadfast commitment to diversity, inclusion, and opportunity for all, which has set a benchmark for integrity in the legal profession.

Accepting the award on behalf of the firm is Sonia R. Farber, Partner at Perkins Coie, whose leadership exemplifies this commitment. Sonia's career has focused on advancing women leaders and founders, and when Perkins Coie acquired her practice three years ago, it amplified both her impact and the firm's investment in providing opportunities for diverse voices in the boardroom and beyond.

"At a pivotal time in our country, Perkins Coie's unwavering support of equality in access to opportunity—and Sonia's leadership in ensuring access to women and diverse founders to the forefront—show what true courage and vision look like," said Julie Castro Abrams, CEO of How Women Lead.

For more information about #GetOnBoard Week, and to attend the online summit and in-person gatherings held nationwide September 8–12, 2025, please visit How Women Lead's #GetOnBoard Week.

About How Women Lead
How Women Lead is a national organization of top executive women focused on activating their individual and collective power to achieve equity for women by driving representation and opportunities across all aspects of life and career. Founded in 2014, the organization fights for change at all levels by driving systems reform, mobilizing a movement, offering training, and providing access to opportunities. Now more than 25,000 strong, the organization has expanded its impact nationally.

How Women Lead's philanthropic arm, How Women Give, provides grants and invaluable connections to women's and girls' organizations on the frontlines of today's most critical issues. Its sister organization, How Women Invest, invites women to play big and powerfully in venture, making meaningful investments and propelling high-potential, women-led companies forward at scale.

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