Meet the beauty industry’s biggest female disruptors, CEW’s Achiever and Catalyst for Change honorees in the C-Suite as well as the top Female Founders of the moment. Learn not just what makes them, former honorees, and rising stars so special and newsworthy, but their personal stories of passion, struggle, and triumph. Discover just how they’ve achieved so much — and what they have their beauty sights set on next.

They’re the most innovative beauty products of the year, according to the industry’s widest range of insiders: CEW Members. Find out what makes the winners new and newsworthy, plus why and how they were invented by the people who actually brought them to market.

Emerging Leaders are the women in beauty who demonstrate advanced leadership potential within their company or the beauty industry, and have initiated or managed a program that has positively impacted their beauty business internally or externally.

There are beauty bigwigs, and then there are the beauty bigwigs having a majorly big moment right now. In our content about CEW’s more than 40-year history of celebrating female beauty execs using their power in all the best ways, find out these fascinating women’s professional journeys. Get inspired by their tales of long and arduous trips to the comfy chair in the corner office — as well as the life lessons they want you to know so you can achieve your personal best in the beauty industry.

Who are our industry’s most notable new pathfinders, serving up a healthy dose of inspiration (and amazing products, to boot?). Get the backstory on these incredible women who had ideas, and the courage and tenacity to act on them – whether they started by mixing batches of face creams to solve their own skin issues, or went from making up runway models to making their dream makeup line, or who decided that they were going to clean up the beauty industry’s act, one launch at a time. CEW’s Female Founders prove that you are unlimited in your potential, and that you don’t have to be a business whiz to become a true beauty titan.