Alison Moore took over as CEO of Chief, a member organization and community platform for women leaders, in February 2025, having previously served as CEO of Comic Relief US and held executive positions at companies including HBO, NBCUniversal, and Condé Nast. It was a moment of transition for Chief that saw founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan take strategic positions on the board, with Childers now serving as chairman and Kaplan as board director. “They really handed me the baton,” says Moore. “I don't know that I'm necessarily the founder type, but I am a great baton grabber. That's where I shine.”
Moore is steering the organization to support women in senior leadership roles as they assess their futures in post-Covid workplaces, at a time of widespread adoption of AI. To find out more about the impact of the latter amid conversation about the AI gender gap, Chief and The Harris Poll recently produced a report on women and AI, which found that 80% of women surveyed were actively involved in their organizations’ AI strategies, predominantly in AI governance, ethics, and responsible implementation or in roles designing and implementing how humans and AI will work together across an organization. Participants also indicated concerns about risks and the impact of AI on workers. Some 83% of respondents agreed that being cautious about AI adoption is a sign of good leadership rather than resistance to technology, while 73% were concerned that the critical thinking gap would worsen in workforces over the coming three years.
“The research is telling us something important: the companies that will win aren’t just the ones moving fastest. They’re the ones being most intentional about what they’re building alongside the technology. Judgment. Institutional knowledge. The leadership pipeline. Those things don’t scale automatically, they must be invested in,” said Moore with the release of the report. “Women leaders understand that as th
