Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try.

I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.

I think that people are innately good.

I'm a natural optimist.

We only get better by telling our real story. That's the only way to be.

Mentors are like friendships.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

We're complex human beings. I can wear a leather dress and still have an 8-year-old and wipe up the eggs that are on her face.

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.

As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.

Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.

My family moved a lot, so I was always walking in as the new kid.

I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.

There's no more exciting moment for me as a brand strategist than a turnaround.

If our employees are wearing the Uber sweatshirt to the grocery store, that would make me feel great.

I've never run from a job; I've always run to another one.

I've always been a black woman in corporate America. I've faced my share of issues.

Because my husband, Peter, died young, I've already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.

I firmly believe brand stories are complex and multilayer.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.