NCWIT Pacesetters is a fast-track program in which senior executives from startups, corporations, universities, and government commit to increasing their numbers of technical women. Pacesetters organizations work to recruit previously untapped talent pools of technical women and retain women who are at risk of leaving, resulting in "net new" women for their organizations.

In our pilot program 2010-2012, Pacesetters sought to add 1,000 net new women to the U.S. tech talent pool by 2012 using new and innovative change strategies to reach their goals. The result was 1,685 net new women in just two years. Read their profiles to learn more about individual Pacesetters organizations. Click on their strategies to find out more about these approaches, or read about all strategies.

A new cohort of Pacesetters was announced for 2013-2015.