My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.