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  • 21 October 2025

Chicago Women’s Forum 2025: How Women Rise

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Renowned leadership expert and bestselling author Sally Helgesen will present at this networking event for professionals in the legal community.

Women’s distinctive strengths and behaviors provide them with many advantages. Yet the very habits that help them early in their careers can undermine them as they seek to move into leadership positions.

Drawing on the insights that made How Women Rise an international bestseller, author Sally Helgesen will explore how women at every level can avoid this common trap to build careers that are satisfying, sustainable, and rewarding. Her emphasis will be on tactical, practical solutions.

Sally Helgesen will explore how women at every level can build careers that are satisfying, sustainable, and rewarding.

This presentation is sponsored by Cornerstone Research Women’s Forum, which fosters discussion of thought-provoking topics relevant to professionals working in the legal community. The evening will offer valuable content, lively conversation, and networking with local women legal professionals and senior staff of Cornerstone Research.

For more information about this event, email events@cornerstone.com.

Headshot of Sally J. HelgesenSally J. Helgesen
Author, Speaker, and Leadership Coach

About the Speaker

Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, is an international best-selling author, speaker, and leadership coach. She has been inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, which honors those whose ideas have shaped the field of leadership worldwide and is ranked number one in leadership by Global Gurus.

Sally’s book How Women Rise, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, examines the behaviors most likely to get in the way of successful women. Inc. magazine cites it as the top book CEOs give to women in their organizations, and rights have been sold in 26 languages.

Previous books include The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, considered the classic in its field and continuously in print since 1990, and The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, which explores how women’s strategic insights can strengthen their careers and their companies. The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations was cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time and is credited with bringing the language of inclusion into business.

Sally’s most recent book, Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace, was published in February 2023.