After starting her career in nearly 30 years ago in the training program for Atlanta-based bank SunTrust, Allison Dukes is now the senior managing director and chief financial officer of Atlanta-based Invesco. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

AJC Her+Story: Execs Unplugged

Invesco exec says she once fell into trap of underestimating her abilities

Allison Dukes is chief financial officer of the investment management firm.

Her firm was targeted by the anti-DEI movement. Now she’s telling her story.

AJC HER+STORY

This Georgia Tech professor broke barriers for women in aerospace

AJC HER+STORY

Atlanta commercial real estate can be insular. Here’s how she broke in.

Lily Tova the therapy dog comforts refugee girls in Decatur

AJC HER+STORY

More than $1.4 million given to programs for Atlanta women and girls

Kristine Sickels stands inside the Switchyards Toco Hills co-working space on Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. The author and marketing executive moved to Atlanta nearly 20 years ago. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

AJC HER+STORY

Want your voice heard at work? This Atlanta marketing exec explains how.

Kristine Sickels draws insights from her long career in marketing at Newell Brands, as well as her new ventures, for her upcoming book.

AJC HER+STORY

Atlanta photographer captures 107 Black women’s ‘becoming era’ in new book

AJC HER+STORY

She turned a side hustle fixing cars into a nearly million-dollar business

AJC HER+STORY

From 4-H to the Fed: How raising steers led to the central bank for this exec

Norfolk Southern's Chief Mechanical Officer Dianne Barnett poses for a portrait at the railroad's headquarters in Atlanta on July 29, 2026. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

AJC HER+STORY

She started as a clerk at Norfolk Southern. Now she’s a top executive.

Dianne Barnett’s career began as a stenographer clerk in Birmingham. Now she's Norfolk Southern's chief mechanical officer.

AJC HER+STORY

Welding school leader seeks more women in trades as modern Rosie the Riveters

AJC HER+STORY

Need help building something complex in Georgia? That’s her team’s specialty.

AJC HER+STORY

From runways to highways, her Atlanta construction firm has blazed paths

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Events

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Agnes Scott's 7th Annual Women's Global Leadership Conference

October 6, 2026

09:00 AM - 02:30 PM

141 E College Ave, Atlanta, GA 30030, USA

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Explore timely issues, bold leadership and ideas that drive a more innovative society with speakers representing a range of industries, sectors and communities. Headlined by four-time Olympic gold medalist and entrepreneur Sanya Richards-Ross and hosted by Agnes Scott College, a leader in innovative liberal arts and global education, the conference fosters connection, partnership and new ideas that inspire the next generation of leaders.

WHAT: Agnes Scott's 7th Annual Women's Global Leadership Conference

WHEN: October 6, 2026, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Agnes Scott College Presser Hall, Decatur GA, 30030

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