AIM President and CEO Brooke Thomson and Governor Maura Healey are among 12 leaders honored with the 2025 Legends, Leaders, Pioneers & Allies Award from the Get Konnected, the Boston-based inclusive business networking organization.

Get Konnected cited Thomson as a trailblazing woman who has “paved the way for others, embodying the spirit of the African proverb: ‘Teach a man, you educate an individual. Teach a woman, you educate a nation.’”

Thomson is being recognized as an Ally of the organization. Since becoming chief executive of the statewide business association last year, Thomson has been a prominent advocate for the role of women in the workplace and for an inclusive vision of economic growth.

Get Konnected will honor its 2025 award winners on April 8 from 5:30-8 pm at the UMass Club in Boston.

“Your unwavering dedication to inspiring, uplifting, and mentoring the next generation of women leaders has made a profound impact, and we are thrilled to recognize your remarkable contributions,” wrote Colette Phillips, the President of Get Konnected, in the award citation.

“Your leadership, resilience, and commitment to empowering others have not gone unnoticed, and we cannot wait to celebrate you.”

Other 2025 honorees include Karen Holmes, Director of Public Affairs/Executive Producer & Host of WCVB’s Cityline;  Frieda Garcia, social justice advocate; Helen Chin Schlichte Co-founder – President Emerita of South Cove Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Director Emerita of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Donna Levin, Co-founder of Care.com and CEO of the Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurship at Babson College;  Zamawa Arenas, Founder of Flowetik; Kathleen McQuiggan, Portfolio Manager, Brown Advisory; Maura Healey, Governor of Massachusetts; Nancy Stager, President, Eastern Bank Foundation; Cathleen Stone, President of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation; Sharhea Wade, Vice President, Global Inclusion & Diversity, State Street Corp.;  and Nina Liang, City Councilor, Quincy.

Founded in 2008 as an inclusion, allyship and diversity social impact venture, Get Konnected is Boston’s award-winning, nationally recognized premier cross-cultural business-networking event series. The organization brings together professionals, business and civic leaders and entrepreneurs from all cultures across industries and sectors. It also publishes also the creator of a series of specialized lists that celebrate, document and showcase the contributions people of color are making to the economic, civic and social fabric of Boston and Massachusetts.