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.

Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.

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.

And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'