My mom was a beautician in her early days, and then my parents decided that one of them needed to go to school in order to build the future. So my mom started going to college when I was in eighth grade, and she graduated when I was a freshman in college.

You can't get the growth without the skills.

I personally feel I will have failed if I do not make progress toward making us the most inclusive and diverse workforce in the U.S.

There is a high school trap where girls get lost in computing.

If you aspire to senior leadership, you're going to have to work hard. That doesn't mean you have to give up everything.

I think there is a general view that sustainability is really important. I do think it is a top priority. I don't know that it's the top priority.

I want to have a really big impact on my kids, my community, and my company.

People who come to Accenture want to be part of collaborative teams that are interesting and diverse. We think it's actually a real differentiator as we try to get people to come join us.

Through our Building Bridges dialogues at Accenture, where we have brought together people from diverse backgrounds to have sometimes difficult conversations, such as around race, I have experienced the power of storytelling to help people from diverse backgrounds understand each other.

It takes work to figure out how to bank on your phone, how to sign up for classes, how to connect in a community.

Every year, I spend time to improve how I communicate.

When you come into a role, there seems to be just a ton of different places you can make an impact. But it's critical in that first year to be seen to be a leader that can actually accomplish things and has a sense of priorities.

Women tend to lag in adopting new technology quickly.

This goes to show how much of an impact culture has. Even in countries where online access is readily available, there may not be the same expectation for women.

The government needs to invest in raising digital fluency of its citizenry.

While men and women alike are liberated by the balance that work flexibility affords, women appear to derive greater value from it.

It's important to reflect upon how far we've come in achieving gender equality in the workplace and how we could move faster toward even greater goals.

We don't always talk about that as a leadership quality. I think what's really important is having empathy, understanding the experiences of how someone is going to experience what you have to say.

In the old, on-premises world, we had to make updates client by client. With digital, companies need to move quickly and change quickly, and cloud provides a competitive advantage.

We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where our people can be successful, both professionally and personally.

Diversity is critical to our business outcomes.

The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity.

We want the brand of Accenture to be innovation.

For large companies, they are looking at 2020 as the decade of delivery on the promise of digital and technology.