Acknowledgments

I want to offer special thanks to the following people: Kim Lubel, chief executive officer of CST Brands; Jill Campbell, chief operations officer of Cox Communications; Sandra Dewey, executive vice president and head of business affairs, Turner Entertainment Networks and Cartoon Network Originals; Jacqueline Hernández, chief operating officer of Telemundo; Charisse Lillie, vice president of community investment of Comcast Corporation and president of the Comcast Foundation; Kathy Murphy, president of Fidelity Personal Investing; Debbie Storey, chief diversity officer of AT&T; Kathy Waller, chief financial officer of Coca-Cola; and the other amazing women leaders who contributed to this book.

I want to thank Neal Maillet and Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, whose enthusiasm about this project was welcome support. Thanks also to my interns Andreia Bulhao, Jessica Benmen, and Amanda Miller who made our work seem easy. Jessica, you went way beyond the call of duty and it is appreciated. Thank you to Susan Adams of Bentley University for distributing our Women and Confidence Survey to some of their students and alumni and reviewing the data, Andrew Acosta for the interpretation of the data, and to my good friend Laura Newberry for her abounding encouragement. I want to thank Joel Fortinos and Becky Post for their guidance, as well as Danielle Lucie Goodman and Shauna Lani Shames for their insights and craftsmanship. I am grateful to the Turkey Land Cove Foundation for providing a magical place to write this book.

In some examples, the women mentioned in this book are not actual people but composites representing the experiences of several colleagues, clients, friends, or acquaintances. On occasion names have been left out to provide anonymity.