When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.

Getting from point A to point Z can be daunting unless you remember that you don’t have to get from A to Z. You just have to get from A to B. Breaking big dreams into small steps is the way to move forward.

Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'