“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

“If you can, and I think you probably can, see yourself as part of something bigger than yourself.”

"The more experiences you have in life, your toolbox is going to be better and greater."

"We've always gone to the wilderness and sought perspective in the less familiar places."

“Having an ecosystem of people who actually can talk to you, help you, and support you may be the most important thing, not only for your professional and personal success, but for your life.”

“The future pulls us out of the past, and pulls toward the dream, and what’s possible.”

“The emotionally healthy person lives in the now. So, we don’t have to wait until some other time. We don’t have to wait until we’re retired. We don’t have to wait until something else happens. We don’t have to live a life of contingency.”

“If there is a purpose to this life, I would say it’s to evolve ourselves....”

“Be yourself and enjoy what you’re doing because life is too short.”

"I think the lesson is...that there is always a personal and a human side to business."

“Finding the courage to speak up and challenge publicly in an environment of executives far above me - people who I wanted to be like - without having that title was really challenging for me. The moment I did was the moment my career trajectory completely changed.”