The Break the ceiling touch the sky® 101 Best Companies for women in leadership Index is the baseline study for  House of Rose Professional’s  Mission 2029 –   which aims to quintuple the number of Female CEOs  and double the number of male (advocates for diversity) CEOs in the World’s top 500 Companies  (aka the Fortune Global 500) by 2029. The world’s largest 500 Companies generate $41 trillion in revenues and employ close to 70 million people and control one-third of the world’s GDP.  HORP  believes that by transforming gender diversity at the top of these 500 companies first we can change the trajectory of global business for the better and influence a more sustainable, better world. It is to be noted that the smallest Company on the 500 largest Companies considered for this study has annual revenue of over 32 Billion USD.

 

The 2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky® 101 Best Global Companies for women in leadership Index is based on research conducted by House of Rose Professional Pte across the world’s 500 largest Companies covering over 10000 C- suite executives. Research window was Oct to Dec 2024. The Index primarily looks at the gender balance across Boards and Management teams at each Company and determines the composite gender diversity across both for every one of the 500 Companies.  A further parameter was used to remove outlier bias with a compulsory “over 20%” female executive presence on Board and Management team of each Company  being a primary filter for consideration for the Best 101. Any company under consideration should additionally have at least 3 members on its executive management team.

 

This is a  fact-based computation of gender diversity at the top. A spot on the Index cannot be bought, influenced or negotiated.

 

If you wish to benchmark your own Company’s gender balance at leadership level versus the BTC 101 Global Index and effectively the world’s 500 largest Companies by revenue, please sign up for a Break the ceiling touch the sky®  Gender Balance Benchmark Sheet (C)  (USD 999).  Scroll down to bottom of this page. Once payment is made please email Anthony Rose at [email protected] with proof of purchase to begin the process. Some key information will need to be needed from your company for the sheet to be prepared

 

Companies featured on the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index and many other great Companies will share their best practices for diversity & inclusion, leadership and success through the 2025 World Tour of Break the ceiling touch the sky® – the success and leadership summit for women  through the 2025 year starting across the world including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, etc and the annual world edition in Singapore. 

2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky® 101 Best Global Companies for women in leadership

Ranked in order 1 from the highest rank  to 101 with Composite BTC 101 Score  across board and management team.  Fannie Mae – the highest ranked company on the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index recorded a composite gender diversity score of 58.33 and  the 101st ranked Company is the DHL Group with Composite gender diversity score of 35.71.  Companies having exactly the identical board, management and overall composite scores will be ranked as a tie ( and hence placed on same line). If Companies have the same composite BTC 101 Score but have differing board and management scores, higher position will be awarded to Company with higher Management team score). 105 Companies feature on the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index.

Fannie Mae 

Woolworths Group 

National Australia Bank 

BP, Johnson & Johnson, GSK 

Best Buy 

AXA 

Societe Generale

UniCredit Group

BHP Group 

J. Sainsbury 

Mercadona

Starbucks

JD.com 

Engie

Coca-Cola

AstraZeneca

Compass Group

Zurich Insurance Group

BNP Paribas

Roche Group

Walgreens Boots Alliance

Shell

Prudential Financial

Target

Dollar General

Northrop Grumman 

Royal Ahold Delhaize

Schneider Electric

TJX

Progressive

JPMorgan Chase

Saint-Gobain

Deutsche Telekom

Toronto-Dominion Bank

Allianz    

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 

TIAA 

La Poste 

Bank of New York Mellon 

Vodafone Group 

Dow 

Merck 

Cummins

Chevron 

Cencora 

Commonwealth Bank of Australia 

Cardinal Health 

Siemens 

Electricite de France 

Nike

Lloyds Banking Group 

Royal Bank of Canada 

Groupe BPCE 

Standard Chartered 

Mercedes-Benz Group 

Enbridge 

Centene 

Cisco Systems, AIG

Elevance Health

Iberdrola

ANZ Group Holdings 

Rabobank Group

Marathon Petroleum 

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group 

Rio Tinto Group 

Siemens Energy 

HP 

Verizon Communications 

E.ON 

Jeronimo Martins

Orange 

Carrefour, Veolia Environnement

Nestle 

Dell Technologies 

Comcast 

Glencore 

MetLife 

George Weston 

Tesco 

Ingka Group 

Microsoft 

Procter & Gamble 

State Farm Insurance      

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone 

Sanofi 

Bank of Nova Scotia 

Albertsons 

Phillips 66 

Tongwei Group 

Unilever 

Swiss Re 

HSBC Holdings 

Bank of Montreal

Walmart 

UnitedHealth Group 

Deutsche Bahn 

Intel

Apple 

Credit Agricole 

DHL Group

IF YOUR COMPANY FEATURES ON THE BTC 101 GLOBAL INDEX:

Company CEO, CHRO or D&I leader may contact Anthony A. Rose, Chairman and CEO, House of Rose Professional at [email protected] for your Company’s certificate confirming its appearance on the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index.  Additionally, should you wish to access your comparative benchmark Break the ceiling touch the sky® Gender Balance Monitor sheet. vs. key competitors/Companies please purchase your GENDER BALANCE BENCHAMARK SHEET (USD 999) below.  You can use the Industry Partner rates to sign up for Editions of the 2025 World Tour of Break the ceiling touch the sky®.

 

IF YOUR COMPANY DOES NOT FEATURE ON THE BTC 101 GLOBAL INDEX:

You may purchase your GENDER BALANCE MONITOR SHEET below (USD 999)  and understand how your Company leadership would currently compare to Companies on the BTC 101 Global Index and the world’s 500 largest companies globally.   You can also reach out to House of Rose Professional Chairman and CEO Anthony A. Rose at [email protected] to understand  how you can improve your gender diversity at leadership levels, learning from the Companies featuring on the list above and  leveraging HORP’s deep international, cross category expertise across  the areas of Talent, Training and Transformation and the MISSION 2029 FOR A BETTER WORLD global program. You can also sign up your Company to learn and share with the best of the best Companies on leadership, DEI and success at upcoming Editions of Break the ceiling touch the sky® – the success and leadership summit for women

2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky® 101 Best Global Companies for women in leadership Index – (The “Next 50”  Best Global Companies for women in leadership)

These are the “Next 50″ Best Global Companies for women in leadership that are making progress to enter the top 101.  (Ranked in order 102 (Broadcom – composite gender diversity score of 35.29 ) to 152 ( Accenture with composite gender diversity score at 29.5)  with Composite BTC 101 Score  across board and management team in Brackets these are the companies that occupy the 102 to 152nd positions on the BTC 101 Global Index.  Companies having exactly the identical board, management and overall composite scores will be ranked as a tie ( and hence placed on same line). If Companies have the same composite BTC 101 Score but have differing board and management scores, higher position will be awarded to Company with higher Management team score).

Broadcom

Volvo

Alimentation Couche-Tard

Abbott Laboratories

United Parcel Service

LyondellBasell Industries

Lowe’s

Equinor

United Airlines Holdings

TotalEnergies

Walt Disney

American Express

FedEx

L’Oreal

Bank of America

China Life Insurance

Goldman Sachs Group

Humana, Archer Daniels Midland

Netflix

Meta Platforms

3M, Nvidia

Banco do Brasil

Air France-KLM Group

Boeing

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

Eli Lilly

Brookfield

Sysco

UBS Group

PepsiCo

Enel

Bunge

Arrow Electronics

AbbVie

ING Group

Uniper

S.F. Holding

Caixa Economica Federal

Mondelez International, Visa

Home Depot

Intesa Sanpaolo

Petrobras

Alibaba Group Holding

Migros Group

Wells Fargo

Suncor Energy, Deere

Truist Financial

Daimler Truck Holding

Lockheed Martin

Morgan Stanley

Accenture

2024 Break the ceiling touch the sky® 50 Global Companies with gender-balanced Boards

Board gender diversity is an important predictor of good peformance. The following is a list of 50 Global Companies (also based on research of the world’s 500 largest Companies by annual sales) with the most gender balanced boards (45% t0 55% female composition of the Board).

Woolworths Group

PKN ORLEN Group

British American Tobacco

Best Buy

Cardinal Health

Citigroup

BHP Group

Coca-Cola

Engie

Schneider Electric

Prudential Financial

Johnson & Johnson

Zurich Insurance Group

TJX

Chevron

American International Group

Banco do Brasil

Accenture

HSBC Holdings

Kroger

Progressive

Saint-Gobain

Veolia Environnement

BP

Shell

AstraZeneca

Northrop Grumman

Merck

General Motors

La Poste

JPMorgan Chase

CVS Health

Walt Disney

Elevance Health

Vodafone Group

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance

Inditex

Deutsche Telekom

Bayer

SAP

Meta Platforms

Royal Ahold Delhaize

J. Sainsbury

NRG Energy

Petronas

ENI

Enel

Poste Italiane

Christian Dior

Crédit Agricole

Picture above from the 2014 World Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky®, Nov 11, 2024, Singapore.