"Own the rights and the wrongs. Celebrate your successes but also own up to your failures and use the experience to correct your course for the future." — Jennifer Caserta
Editor-in-Chief, Seventeen Magazine
A: My favorite interview ever was when I sat down with Barbara Walters. I asked her, what do you know now that you wish you knew when you were a teen. She said, “Don’t imagine that your life now is the way it’s always going to be. You have no idea how interesting your life can become." That’s an amazing message ... READ MORE »
CEO, Luminary Labs
A: Humility, compassion and a good gut instinct. READ MORE »
Founder & Executive Director, GEMS: Girls Educational & Mentoring Services
A: The willingness and courage to take risks and fail, a sense of humor about yourself and life in general, and the ability to know what you’re great at, continually work at that and develop it, and then hire people who are better than you at the other things. READ MORE »
Founder & CEO, Peeled Snacks
A: Madonna. She’s the most impressive businesswoman I know, who continually manages to reinvent her products in order to stay current. She’s also an amazing dancer. READ MORE »
Founder & President, Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence
A: I’ll give you five, all leadership traits I’ve learned by watching President Obama: 1). Focus It’s important to define a problem, focus on what it is you want, and then go for it without getting sidetracked or deterred. It’s like what athletes are taught: Keep your eye on the ball. 2). Discipline Obama is a master of restraint. You can see the wheels in ... READ MORE »
President & CEO, International Medical Corps
A: Attract great people, invest in them, give them opportunities and the space to fulfill their potential. Encourage new ideas and calculated risk-taking. Readiness to adapt quickly to change. READ MORE »