When you take time to discover the humanity beyond a person’s job, title, position, you gain more than you anticipated and may uncover potential opportunities that otherwise may not have been discussed…

Being a trailblazer can be risky, but the unknown doesn’t have to be scary if we remind ourselves and others that many things fail. Make decisions based on the best-case scenario but have a contingency plan for the worst-case scenario…

As a leader, it is critical to bring perspective, stay calm, remain focused, consolidate data and bring structure, especially during times of crisis. However, you quickly learn that not only do you have to manage the short-term crises and ongoing business but you also have to be willing to tackle the longer-term, societal issues such […]

Diversity needs to be defined in context and organizations need to know what they are trying to diversify before tackling the issue. I care most about diversity in investments and diversity in executive and board leadership. My work with the Maurula Project is addressing these issues but my hope is that the increase in VC […]

In starting the Yale Alumni Health Network (‘YAHN’), one of our key strategic goals is to break down barriers between health-related disciplines, be that health law, health policy, public health, medicine, or health media, etcetera. I’m hoping that brings various experts and professionals together that learning from one another will create more empathy and inclusion.This […]

Keep taking up space! No one knows your value like you do so, don’t be afraid to make it known. As women, we have to work at unlearning the conditioning that tells us to be small and to look externally to determine what’s best for us. You can’t truly get out of your own way […]

I’m fortunate to have been raised and influenced by a fairly high-powered woman in finance – my mom! Because of her, I grew up thinking that if I worked hard enough, I could achieve the same thing. As you may guess, our world is not quite this simple. Upon entering the workforce, I quickly faced […]

Whether that’s leading a team of 10 or a team of 300, authentic leaders have a core set of characteristics that I call the HUMANS ingredients to authentic leadership: Humble, Unique, Model, Adaptive, Narrator, and Spark. I sincerely believe that leading authentically has the power to solve two of our largest workplace issues –the lack […]

In my experience, more women, than men, express feelings of imposter syndrome and a hesitation to step into a first time CEO role – even with decades of relevant leadership experience. My advice to women: release yourself from untenable expectations. Allow yourself to make mistakes, to learn and to recruit to your team individuals who […]

An unexpected challenge I’ve faced as an entrepreneur, is being explaining to male investors on the importance of having women build and launch companies for women. Some of the questions have been absurd but despite the frustration I am committed to improving global fetal and maternal outcomes – especially here in the US because we […]