Angela Braly Quotes

Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

From Warren Buffett to Jamie Dimon to Paul Tudor Jones, no one has cracked the code and put a critical mass of top women in the C-Suite or near it.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.

Women…are just as capable of being heads of state as men. Some of the most forceful leaders of history, from the time of Queen Elizabeth to Israel’s Golda Meir and India’s Indira Gandhi in our own time, have been women. Mrs. Gandhi, incidentally, is prime minister of 530 million people, more than twice the population of the United States.

In this country it is the women who are concerned with commerce.

It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.

It seems to me that women have made an awful lot of progress, but they probably remain underrepresented at the highest levels of most organizations, for a variety of reasons. And it's probably going to take a long time to change that.

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

We want to see women in more power positions, not just in front of the screen but behind the screen as well.

As a CEO, I want to show women that there are no limits to what they can achieve, whether through entrepreneurship, government, science or any path they choose, and there is plenty of room for women at the top.

We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.

I am surrounded by exceptional women on Accenture's board of directors as well as my own leadership team.