Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.

It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.