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.

People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.

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

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

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.

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