Honoring leadership & impact—on the stage and across the channel 🌟 Join us Dec 8 in NYC for the CRN Women of the Year Awards Gala. 🎟️ Get your ticket: okt.to/1egFlU #CRNWOTY #WOTC

Women of the Week: Paige Powers, VP, US Distribution Sales at Fortinet ✨ Paige shares how trust and purpose drive stronger leadership—and why impact comes from lifting others. Watch more: okt.to/9BcPXK #WOTC

Take the stage at WOTC East 🎤 Main stage sponsorships available—share your insights and lead the conversation! 15-min & 30-min keynotes panel seats available. Don’t miss your chance to be heard. 👉okt.to/tNCgAd #WOTC

Celebrate the leaders defining the channel’s future—and put your brand alongside them. 🌟 Sponsorship at the CRN Women of the Year Awards Gala = visibility, impact, and industry alignment. 🔗 okt.to/FKwp5J #CRNWOTY

New Women of the Channel Community Spotlight! Alanna talks with Rob of Hitachi Vantara about allyship in action—using influence & accountability to elevate women in leadership & technical roles. Stronger allyship builds a stronger channel! Watch more: okt.to/oZcSsx

WOTC East sells out every year—and we’re getting close. ✨ Join us in NYC Dec 7–8 for inspiring keynotes, real connections, and insights you can actually use. If you’ve been thinking about it, now’s the time. 🎯 Secure your spot before it’s gone: okt.to/EtwhAr #WOTC

Trailblazers, innovators, changemakers—this is your moment. ✨ Submit for the 2026 #CRNWOTY Awards by Tuesday, June 16. Winners will be honored Dec 8 in NYC and featured on CRN.com. Don’t miss your chance to spotlight leaders shaping the channel. Submit now ➡️ okt.to/BGs7Z1

This week’s Women of The Week: Lindsey Christensen, Director of Channel Nationals West at Lenovo ✨ From advocating for your growth to building stronger teams through co-creation, her leadership insights are a must-watch. 🎥 Watch more: okt.to/UrFRVg #WOTC

You don’t have to leave healthcare to make an impact—you can expand it. This week’s blog explores how one leader moved beyond the bedside to help shape the future of healthcare through technology, empathy, and collaboration. Read more: okt.to/CsTGR6 #WOTC

⏰ One week left to register! Join our June 4 Quarterly Workshop with Ashley Welch to learn 5 simple discovery methods to uncover deeper customer insights, build trust & stand out. 🕦 June 4 | 11:30 AM EDT Register now! okt.to/2pPQJ7

New Women of the Week 🚨 Sommer Newman (Cyera) shares a refreshing take on leadership, redefining balance, & why relationships—not transactions—drive real impact. A must-read for anyone building, leading, & navigating growth in tech. Watch here: okt.to/24yRcW #WOTC

Dec 8 | NYC ✨🏆 Join us for the CRN Women of the Year Awards Gala—dinner, awards, and live entertainment. 🎟️ Tickets available now—celebrate the leaders shaping the IT channel. okt.to/629qvD #CRNWOTY #WOTC

WOTC East (NYC, Dec 7–8) sells out every year—and we’re getting close 🚨 If WOTC West inspired you, don’t miss our flagship event. 2 days of leadership, connection, and growth. 👉 okt.to/vMyShP #WOTC

A new Women of the Channel Community Spotlight is here 🌟 Alanna speaks with Joo of SolarWinds on partner-first leadership, career growth, & why you don’t have to feel “ready” to take the next step. Built on trust, curiosity, & bold moves. Watch more: okt.to/PN6dV3

Sign up here to receive our weekly newsletter, CRN Channel Essentials, in your inbox: okt.to/BARcdL. In the Thursday, May 21 edition of CRN Channel Essentials, @CRN Senior Associate Editor CJ Fairfield breaks down her takeaways from her session on generational differences among women in corporate America at last week's Women of the Channel Leadership Summit West, hosted by our parent company, The Channel Company. While CJ says she and her fellow moderator, Brenda Hudson, senior vice president of corporate sales, sales enablement, learning and development at @InsightEnt, figured out corporate life in wildly different ways, the generational divide wasn't what stood out most: The humanity was. You'll learn more when you read tomorrow's edition of CRN Channel Essentials, a weekly newsletter written by a CRN editor on a particular news story, topic or trend that is pertinent to the channel community.

Meet our Women of the Week: Shawnae Mckown, Director, Channel Marketing - Nationals at Fortinet! ✨ Hear her inspiring leadership journey and insights. Click the link to watch the full interview and get inspired! okt.to/dBHC1x #WomenOfTheWeek #Leadership #WOTC

New WOTC blog 📖 10 Years Sober: 10 Lessons That Gave Me My Life Back by Steph Louisa, Senior Consultant at The Channel Company. A powerful, personal reflection on resilience, growth & reclaiming your path. Read more 👉 okt.to/nCuXGP #WOTC

Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z women in the IT channel may be chasing the same goals (e.g., better careers and workplaces), but new research from our parent company, @TheChannelCo, shows they are arriving there with very different frustrations, expectations and definitions of success. CJ Fairfield breaks down key takeaways from the research, which Amy Wilde, The Channel Company’s director of data and research, presented at last week’s @WOTChannel Summit West in Carlsbad, Calif. CJ also spoke with Stacy Whitley, director of strategic memberships at the @GTIAofficial, for her perspective on the findings: okt.to/28guTa

Still carrying the energy from #WOTCWest ✨ Two days of honest conversations on leadership, ambition, boundaries, AI, and burnout—real, human, and deeply meaningful. Grateful for every voice and connection. Taking this energy forward 💛 #WOTC

Closing out Day 2 with a powerful keynote ✨ Sara Ross takes the stage with “DEAR WORK”—redefining success without burnout. Backed by science, data, and real insight, this is about sustaining ambition, clarity, and vitality at work. 💛 #WOTC