---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-034200"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WSM"
cik: "0000719955"
company_name: "WILLIAMS SONOMA INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T14:06:36.784290+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Williams-Sonoma appoints Arianna Huffington to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Williams-Sonoma (WSM) appoints Arianna Huffington to its Board, effective August 1, 2024.
- Huffington is founder/CEO of Thrive Global and founder of The Huffington Post; former director at Uber and Onex.
- She will receive standard non-employee director compensation on a pro-rated basis.
- CEO Laura Alber and Board Chair Scott Dahnke cite Huffington's entrepreneurial leadership and alignment with company values.
- Huffington expressed support for WSM's commitment to worker wellbeing and growth.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-034200
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WSM
- cik: 0000719955
- company_name: WILLIAMS SONOMA INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719955/000162828024034200/0001628280-24-034200-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719955/000162828024034200/wsm-20240801.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-034200
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-034200.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-034200.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Arianna Huffington was appointed as Director at WILLIAMS SONOMA INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On August 1, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Arianna Huffington to serve as a director of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719955/000162828024034200/0001628280-24-034200-index.htm

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