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 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.
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 society as a whole by connecting key leaders on boards and C-suites to our highly qualified network of women+ executives.
Our Vision
We’re working to reshape the workplace by eliminating barriers and fostering practices that promote intelligent inclusion and deliberate diversity.
Our Story
In February 2020, our founders started hosting monthly gatherings of high-performing women+ leaders from their professional networks.
The goal: to foster a community built on sharing knowledge and opportunities.
By the summer of that year, the group’s work took on new meaning. They saw companies promising to invest in a more diverse, inclusive workforce, but few organizations had made real progress, particularly in positions of senior leadership.
NxtWork was founded to leap past good intentions and create real change.
Meet the Founders
Dominique Shelton Leipzig
Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Partner,
Leader Global Data Innovation and
Ad Tech Data Privacy Teams,
Mayer Brown, Los Angeles office
Co-Founder, Co-CEO NxtWork
With 30+ years of experience, Dominique is one of the country’s top C-level and board cybersecurity, privacy, and data advisors. She is a skilled strategist leading diverse teams in digital transformation strategies for Fortune 100 companies and start-ups across a wide variety of industries including technology, retail, healthcare, and finance.
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.
Jenny Kim
Senior Vice President, Vantage Group at Morgan Stanley
Co-Founder, Co-CEO NxtWork
As a trusted advisor with 15 years in the industry, Jenny provides investment advice and complex trust and estate planning strategies to high-net-worth individuals and families in Los Angeles, New York, and across the country.
The NxtWork Difference
Founded by three women of color, NxtWork is a diverse, primarily BIPOC network of women+ uniquely positioned to connect business leaders with an ethnically diverse network of industry executives.
We help our partners add real value to their organizations by achieving their diversity goals and fostering a culture of innovation through meaningful inclusion and representation at the leadership level.
- NxtWork is the only organization of its kind devoted to creating direct relationships between diverse women leaders, C-suites, and boards.
- 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.
- NxtWork is NOT an executive recruiting or job-matching tool or DE&I consulting service.
- Instead, NxtWork develops organic, trusted, 1-to-1 relationships with diverse women leaders and companies that share business priorities.
The NxtWork Network
Our referral-only network consists of executive women+, from all backgrounds, with the experience, expertise, and leadership skills to add real value to today’s boardrooms.
These women+ are the best in the business. And we’re ready to prove it, one highly qualified member at a time.
NxtWork members are leaders in their fields, with proven experience delivering real results across a variety of industries.
- B2B
- Change management
- Commercial products
- Consulting
- Cybersecurity and privacy
- Finance
- Healthcare
- Legal
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Media and 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
