It exists. You can hold it. Chief in Tech: How Women Are Breaking the Silicon Ceiling and Leading with Impact is out with Wiley, written by Anna with me as co-author, and built on the voices of more than 50 C-level contributors: CIOs, CTOs and CISOs from some of the most recognizable companies in the world.
What the book argues
The book is about the silicon ceiling: the specific, structural version of the glass ceiling that exists in technology organizations, and how the women who broke through it actually did it. Not as inspiration porn, but as an operating manual. The contributors share the real mechanics: sponsorship, board paths, technical credibility, the politics of the C-suite.
What making it was like
A book with 50+ executive contributors is an operations problem wearing a literature costume. Interviews, transcripts, legal reviews, endless coordination across time zones. We ran it like we run everything: with systems. It will not surprise anyone reading this blog that AI-assisted tooling helped us process interview material and keep structure across a manuscript this size, with every word going through human hands. That workflow deserves its own post someday.
The moment
Seeing the book featured on a Times Square billboard was surreal for two people who started with coding workshops for girls. The best-seller badges are nice. What actually matters is different: for eight years we have been building a network where women in tech lift each other. The book is that network, compressed into an object you can put in someone's hands.
If you read it, tell me what resonated. And if you are one of the leaders who contributed: thank you. It is your book as much as ours.