"We facilitated a number of listening sessions and did customer discovery to find out what resources the community lacked and created programming and partnerships that filled in those gaps."

"I had experience pushing myself, and I understand now that the grit, ambition and determination necessary to show up to ballet auditions prepared me for this journey."

"I had zero business experience and no college degree."

"I was a resident dance teacher for various schools in Baltimore City."

"Nothing in my background was remotely close to entrepreneurship or business management."

"The transition definitely wasn’t easy."

"I’m constantly learning something new."

"I consider myself a late bloomer in many elements of entrepreneurship."

"I was searching for a community to heal with, and there was nowhere for me to go."

"I founded this organization as a result of recognizing the lack of prevention and recovery resources centered around women that looked like me."

"To be honest, the work we do has a very small impact on the world right now. We make components, so we help products be a little easier to make or work a little better. It's a small impact, but it's exciting for us and for our customers."

"I used to spend a lot of time making things when I was younger, and I think this has helped. From 3D printing to sewing, the hands-on work helps me imagine how physical items come together."

"Graphic with a photo of Madison Maxey leaning over a work table with a quote superimposed of what she would tell her 14 year old self about manufacturing: "Pair engineering with design from the start. With these two skills, you can make just about anything you want."

"I think I would spend one hour walking around somewhere nice, one hour at a nice symphony or jazz show, one hour cooking and eating something nice, and the rest of the day I would spend in a lab with exciting tools and materials to use for developing new things."

"We do work for engineers and designers making next-generation products. I'm super motivated by how we can help them do their work with our materials. I also love research, so I'm always excited to hear what the team has been up to and what breakthroughs we've made on a Monday morning."

"More than anything, I think it's important to be a critical problem solver when working with new technologies. If something you're doing isn't working, don't worry, wine, or wander around. Just change one variable, try again, and measure the result. Eventually, you'll get there!"

"We make electronic textiles, and the word "textile" always makes people think of shirts and socks. In reality, we manufacture electronic components for cars, robots, and more. They would be surprised to know that we don't spend much time weaving and sewing and spend most of our time testing the electrical performance of components and laminating things."

"The invention for sure! I work more on the business and strategy side these days, but I love it when I get the chance to see parts from the factory, or see prototypes. It's really satisfying to see ideas become real through engineering, design, prototyping, and production."

"Getting a new process into production is an exercise in resilience. We are constantly trying to troubleshoot unexpected issues, and the unknown can be difficult. However, this is also what makes the work mentally stimulating and fun!"

"I started my career in design and found hardware and materials engineering by digging deep into design problems. I just kept digging and digging, and this led me to eventually have ideas for developing my own materials. However, a material that can only be made in a small swatch isn't very useful, so the need to scale led me to advanced manufacturing. I see myself very much as a physical product person. If someone wants to make innovative things in the real world, they will eventually need to touch advanced manufacturing in some way!"

"“I believe Africa is special, even with all our challenges. Africa has given me my identity. Africa has given me my confidence. I have a huge extended family; that is how we are in Africa… Africa is in full Technicolor. If you go elsewhere, it is mute"

"“We once asked (at a workshop): what is your favorite memory of Coke, or any of our products? And I said: for me, it is when we were growing up, Coke came in glass and it would clink. And whenever we would hear that we would think, oh we are going to have a fun day today! That sound is still a very positive sound.”"

"“I didn’t have a negative perception. I actually grew up associating it with fun. We didn’t have (Coke) every day, and so when we did, it was generally because company was coming over and we were all going to have a lot of fun,” says Kidero, smiling."

"I live and breathe sustainability. Whatever I do, it needs to live. I don’t like the word charity"

"Your generation is coming of age at a time when women’s empowerment is also finally coming of age. By now it should be clear to you that life is not linear; it takes many twists and turns. And there is no corporate ladder, rather there is a corporate lattice for most women, and you must decide when you want to take the on-ramp back onto a career, or some other satisfying occupation, and when you want to move sideways rather than up. Empowerment is about having the choice to define for yourselves what your version of success looks like at any stage of your life"

"Our job is to make them as successful as possible. After all the charity sector is an important sector for society as a whole.”"

"Charities had to get smarter and have stepped up to the challenge"

"Charities need that single view of their donor, to understand when and how they donate, what their preferences are from a communications perspective –essentially – what will help turn them into loyal and regular donors, so increasing funds"

"It’s vital to be a role model. To me it’s important to answer questions; it’s an opportunity to be honest and that’s good for all disabled people.”"

"I have two fingers coming from each shoulder and my legs are foreshortened above where the average person’s knees would be with little feet.”"

"One of the things I really enjoy is talking to young people. I give talks in schools, and to Brownie groups as well as book talks."

"When I left Cambridge for what was then the top name in mergers and acquisitions in the City."

"If people find Bupa to be an uncompassionate machine, then our strategy has failed and we have wasted our marketing money.""

"It is one way of taking people right to the heart of what the business is about,""

"It is a practical statement and something we try to live by because it can only mean something if it is adopted by the front line. It has a bearing on everything, from how our corporate strategy is driven to how we decide agenda items for meetings, because we are focused on making the customer the centre of everything."

"As we look forward to welcoming Lesley Cowley to ACL’s Board, I’d like to record my sincere thanks to Jeff Halliwell for the role he’s played as Chair since 2013, guiding the Board through a period of major development for ACL and its governance.”"

"I’m excited to be joining ACL’s Board to help guide the company as it manages the pressures of coordination at a growing number of constrained airports while staying at the forefront of technical progress and customer service.”"

"I’m delighted to be handing over the role of Chair at ACL to an excellent successor in Lesley Cowley. Her strong track record working in bodies with important public roles gives Lesley the right background to take over chairing the Board of ACL as the company prepares for continued regulatory change and commercial growth.”"

"All three of those pieces together have given us fundamentally different financial characteristics"

"We can take things that we've made in one country and move them to another country."

"Those are markets where we have not only great demographic characteristics but we can use our scale."

"Emerging markets, our exposure to emerging markets, emerging markets are now about 10% of all of Pearson's revenue and growing at more than 20% a year."

"We are a large education business and the FT and Penguin certainly play into that very nicely."

"We are just far more focused on businesses that have a lot to do with each other, and that are consistent."

"Another is the business mix."

"The ubiquity of digital across Pearson, not only in how we make things, but how we sell them and how we deliver them to our customers."

"Well I think there are three dynamics that have really been at work at Pearson's this year and a few years before this that have changed our fortunes."

"Someone like Chrissie Rucker of The White Company, who creates a successful chain of shops, doesn't have the power to shape law that a senior judge has but she may create jobs for hundreds and significant wealth, as we report on the opposite page."