03/12/2026
Tiffany Dufu’s start as a Girl Scouts cookie mogul has grown into a career advancing the legacies of countless women and girls.
Training thousands of women to run for political office as President of The White House Project.
Building a professional network for millennial women as Chief Leadership Officer at Levo.
Launching The Cru, a peer-coaching platform that matches women in accountability circles, before successfully exiting in 2023.
The Cru started with a vision Dufu had one morning of herself and four other women sitting on a sofa, tethered together like climbers on a mountain. If one falls, everyone else’s strength catches her.
Her bestselling book, Drop the Ball, argues that women don’t need to do more, they need to get fiercely clear about what actually matters and let the rest go. Gloria Steinem (heard of her?) called it “important, path-breaking, intimate and brave.”
Now as President of the Tory Burch Foundation, she’s channeling that clarity into capital. Only 4% of women-owned businesses ever break $1 million in revenue. Under the Foundation’s fellowship program, 42% have blown past that mark. The difference? Access to funding, education, and other women who’ve been in their shoes.
Every role, platform, and room she’s built has been designed around the conviction that women move farther, faster when they move together.
This Women’s History Month, Tiffany Dufu takes The Power Seat at The Chief Suite at SXSW to discuss community as an accelerator. RSVP now at the link in bio.
