Dona Young currently serves on the boards of Foot Locker, USAA, Spahn & Rose, and NACD. Previously, she served on the boards of Aegon NV,  Save the Children US, and Save the Children International. Young currently engages in strategic advising and consulting. She retired as chair, president, and CEO of The Phoenix Companies, where she previously had been the organization's general counsel. Young has spoken widely on issues such as leadership, civic engagement, and board and governance matters, and she serves on the faculty of the Director Professionalism® program of the NACD. Young is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow, is NACD Directorship Certified®, and has also received the CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight from the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2015, Young was named to the NACD Directorship 100 and was also one of four directors to receive the Financial Times Outstanding Director Award in 2021.