It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.

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

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

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.

Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.

It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.

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.