Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.