Hewson has held senior jobs in Lockheed’s aeronautics, services and logistics businesses, and internal auditing division. And one of the best things you can do for yourself is to learn to forgive yourself for not knowing all the answers when you’re knee-deep in new territory.” Offering some advice to other women in the corporate world, Hewson said: “Bottom line is, do your best and don’t set limits on what you think you can do. Working well with others also helped, she said, adding, “You may be the smartest person in the room, but if you can’t get along with others, you will not succeed.” In 2005, upon being singled out as a woman “worth watching” by a diversity organization, Hewson said she believed that success depended largely on being willing to take risks and staying open to new ideas. Her first job was as an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, but she soon joined Lockheed, and then worked her way up by taking every job she was offered. Hewson went on to earn a bachelor degree of science in business and a master’s degree in economics at the University of Alabama. On Thursday, Hewson kicked off an annual meeting for over 300 top female Lockheed executives at the company’s Bethesda headquarters - an event she helped initiate years ago.īorn in Junction City, Kansas, Hewson’s father died when she was just nine, leaving her mother with five young children.
She has long been a champion of helping other women move up the corporate ladder and in early October, Hewson and Hudson spoke about their careers in the traditionally male-dominated defense business at Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women” summit. 19 on the annual Fortune magazine list of the most powerful women in business. She’s tougher than nails when she needs to be, but never tougher than she has to be,” he added. “She’s a very capable executive and she’s widely liked inside the company.
“Marillyn’s elevation is probably a better outcome for employees and shareholders,” Thompson told Reuters, noting that Kubasik’s sarcasm sometimes rubbed people the wrong way. “I just hope they’re not being put in spots to be thrown off the fiscal cliff.” “It’s about time there were more women in these top jobs instead of all these boring old white guys,” said Washington lobbyist Caren Turner. They join pioneer Linda Hudson, the chief executive of the U.S. Hewson and Phebe Novakovic, the incoming CEO at General Dynamics Corps, will take power a day before $500 billion in additional defense spending cuts are due to start taking effect, cutting into revenues across the sector. defense contractors come January, with Hewson at the helm of the biggest of the three, just as the industry braces for the first downturn in over a decade. Hewson’s promotion means women will hold the top jobs at three of the six largest U.S. 2 spot in January, but Kubasik’s ouster accelerated that move, and unexpectedly propelled the avid golfer and reader into the top job. “She knows our business, our customers, our shareholders, our commitments and our employees.” “Marillyn is an exceptional leader with impeccable credentials,” Stevens told reporters.
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