Our Sponsors
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact Betty Gower at Betty@NxtWork.org
Interested in becoming a sponsor?
Contact Betty Gower at Betty@NxtWork.org
Welcome to NxtWork.
Let’s start here: While companies often aim to build more representative leadership teams, very few succeed.
The decision-makers responsible for filling roles on the board and in the C-suite often lack the networks needed to meet those goals. NxtWork helps you expand your leadership pipeline—quickly and meaningfully.
We are the premier network of qualified, vetted executives—diverse in experience and perspective—ready to collaborate and add instant value to your C-suite or boardroom.
Welcome to NxtWork.
Let’s start here: there’s discourse, and then there’s reality. While companies often express a desire to diversify senior leadership, very few succeed.
The decision makers responsible for filling roles on the board and in the C-suite often lack the network to meet their goals and diversify their pipeline. NxtWork helps you extend your network with speed and scale.
We are the premier network of qualified and vetted executive women+, ready to collaborate and add instant value in your C-suite or boardroom.
Our Mission
NxtWork brings value to organizations—and to society as a whole—by connecting key leaders in the boardroom and C-suite with a highly qualified, vetted network of executive talent.
Our Vision
We’re working to reshape the workplace by removing barriers and championing practices that foster intentional inclusion and broaden access to leadership
Our Story
In February 2020, our founders began hosting monthly gatherings of high-performing leaders from across their professional networks.
The goal: to foster a community built on shared knowledge, support, and opportunity.
By the summer of that year, the group’s work took on new urgency. While many companies pledged to build more inclusive and representative leadership teams, real progress remained elusive—especially at the senior level.
NxtWork was created to move beyond good intentions and enable meaningful, measurable change through connection, access, and action.
Meet the Founders
Dominique Shelton Leipzig
CEO and Founder of Global Data Innovation
Dominique Shelton is the CEO of Global Data Innovation, a legal advisory firm guiding CEOs and Boards to exponential data-driven growth while minimizing risks. With 30 + years in Big Law, she has trained 50,000+ professionals in AI, privacy, and cyber governance. Her insights have benefited companies with a combined market cap of over $3 trillion.
Christine Lawton
General Counsel, WENEW
Co-Founder, Co-CEO NxtWork
A lawyer and business advisor with 25+ years’ experience in entertainment and consumer technology, from major motion picture studios to new blockchain and NFT dynamos, Christine develops transactional frameworks that transform consumer entertainment experiences and create global markets.
Betty Gower
Marketing Leader
Betty Gower is a marketing leader with more than a decade of senior experience in general marketing, strategy, corporate branding, and communications. With a strong understanding of the customer, Betty has succeeded in enduring branding such as the Universal logo and industry leading strategy such as the Kaiser Permanente ACA rollout.
The NxtWork Difference
NxtWork is a trusted, high-impact network of experienced executives, designed to help business leaders build stronger connections across industries and perspectives.
We support our partners in driving progress by expanding leadership networks, fueling innovation, and strengthening inclusive practices at the top levels of their organizations.
- Unlike traditional coaching, mentoring, or leadership programs—which often reinforce existing hierarchies—NxtWork accelerates access to real relationships that spark collaboration and drive results.
- NxtWork is effective where coaching, mentoring, or leadership development programs often fall short. While important, these initiatives can devalue accrued accomplishment and reinforce established hierarchies.
- We’re not a recruiting firm, job-matching platform, or consulting service.
- Instead, NxtWork develops organic, trusted, 1-to-1 relationships with diverse women leaders and companies that share business priorities.
- We’re a connection engine—fostering authentic, 1-to-1 relationships between leadership-ready executives and companies aligned on values and vision.
The NxtWork Network
Our referral-only network includes accomplished executives from a wide range of industries—each bringing the expertise, experience, and leadership needed to make an immediate impact in today’s boardrooms.
This is top-tier talent. Proven. Trusted. Ready to contribute—one qualified member at a time.
NxtWork members are leaders in their fields with a track record of delivering results and driving growth across sectors.
- B2B Strategy
- Change Management
- Commercial Products
- Consulting
- Cybersecurity & Privacy
- Finance
- Healthcare
- Legal
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Media & Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Sales
- Technology
- Wealth Management
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Media and entertainment
- Private equity
- Sales
- Technology
- Wealth management
- B2B
- Change management
- Commercial products
- Consulting
- Cybersecurity and privacy
- Finance
- Healthcare
- Legal
