"I'm talking about empathy as a means of understanding your workforce so you can help them, not only motivate them, but help them become self-propelled. Empathy ultimately drives performance. It's not about lesser performances or about greater performances, it's also about greater balance. Because what's really happened during the pandemic, and I think people get all caught up on where work takes place, you know, home, hybrid office, I really have no opinion on that. What I think has happened is, and everything's pictures, it means I have to draw, is we had a smaller circle in 2019, that was called our personal life. And we had agency over our personal life. And we had a bigger circle that cast a shadow on that smaller circle, and that was our professional life."

"It's a huge shift and I gave a couple of talks one week to commercial real estate folks and they were all, it was mostly boomers, some Gen X, they were mostly kind of alpha dog folks, more males, one of them was almost all male. It's not gendered though but that was the case in this instance and they were like, "Don't you think we're getting woke, and aren't we getting soft, and aren't we losing our edge?" And I thought, "Oh, I'm not explaining this right, if that's what you're taking away from this"."

"I'm telling you to have empathy, but I'm not having empathy for you". And I think that was a huge aha, is that if you were brought up, raised with this, give up your Saturdays, don't go to your kids' soccer game or cricket game, whatever it may be; work comes before everything, maybe get on to your second or third marriage because you've ground all your relationships to dust. That's how you become a leader, and then in order to lead, you've got to have your people be afraid of you and not like you and that that's what you were brought up with. This does seem like, "How could this possibly work?"

"You have to have empathy for folks and say, "I know you gave up all those things. I know what you went through frankly sucked. And the people who are coming along now that you're going to be leading are not going to put up with it, it's not going to work. So I need to have empathy and respect for what you went through, but I've got to tell you, if you want to be successful, you are not going to be successful with those tactics"."

"'I was really worried that I would be a mess but I held it together. It was a day that I am honestly not going to forget. I'm quite lucky he was late. It let me get accustomed to the situation and compose myself a bit.'"

"So from the time we were born, we had a cat,” Jenna said. “I would just sit there, sucking my thumb with my eyes swollen shut because I’m highly allergic, but I don’t care.”"

"“It’s been a big, big deal because I’d like to introduce you to ... Mr. Mango Mellow Hager,"

"Santa gave Poppy the baby and she was so excited she nearly started to cry,”"

"Better late than never: @taylorswift you inspire in all the ways! I wish I had a black leotard and a red lip on, but I don’t. Wishing y’all a very merry Swiftmas and CATmas!”"

"Somewhere in the merging of those, you find the thing,'"

"I'll have to watch it in privacy just because I don't want (husband) Henry to know how much I love him,""

"'I kind of write a visualization of what I want more of. I wrote down in my Notes [app] just the things that I wanted to do more of,'"

"“It is a weird thing when you wake up and you’re like — I’m fine, I just have a cold — but you wake up and you’re like, ‘Oh no.'”"

"And someone here at this table has a new addition to their family,”"

"thumb|Jenna Bush Hager (26181652797)We shockingly did it in the cab ride home from the airport. We went around and each person said something,' the mom recalled. 'For our family, that kind of forced fun or forced manifesting, our kids are like, "Mom, stop! No!" But it worked here."

"That is treated with what I call zen, peace, and love,”"

"“It shouldn’t take me having to go do all this and having a blue check by my name for people to take me seriously!”"

"“After years of traveling the world and getting to visit all of these incredible places, I’d go to these fancy restaurants and be intimidated by the wine menu. I was tired of it!”"

"“Also, you can’t go wrong with crisp Txakolina from Spain or Vinho Verde from Portugal to sip on a patio on a hot day.”"

"“The beauty of the culinary world is that it unites people over food and beverage. Since food and beverage are basic human needs, the bonds formed feel genuine and inspiring,” Grace says. “I love learning about peoples’ wine experiences and from the community in general.”"

"“To me, the role of a first lady, and any powerful woman for that matter, in helping the generation beneath us to come up, is not to stand in the way, it’s not to compete, it’s to facilitate, it’s to provide a bridge.”"

"“I’m very much of a hands-on type of person. I like to be on top of everything and enjoy watching a grassroots movement come to flourishing. I realized that Eritrea could use more financial aid, after visiting the country for the first time a couple of years ago,” the Canadian model whose parents immigrated from Eritrea shares, regarding her decision to start a charity of her own as opposed to joining an existing organization as an ambassador. “So I looked at this as an opportunity. Especially as an Eritrean woman,”"

"“Just drink what you like, don’t let people judge you for it!”"

"“Summer is upon us and I love trying funkier, skin-contact wines at this time of the year. Petillant naturel (naturally sparkling) and skin-contact Italian or Austrian grape blends are what I lean into during the warmer months, Also, you can’t go wrong with crisp Txakolina from Spain or Vinho Verde from Portugal to sip on a patio on a hot day.”"

"I need my sisters and younger sisters to go on social media and see this every day and not just see, I’m not going to say names, male leaders of the world. Because, that’s all that you do see,” Mahary said. “And, I need to see the first ladies’ work on social media.”"

"“We’re here on Facebook Live panel. Do you know how important that is? Growing up, I didn’t have Facebook Live. I didn’t see the first lady of Nigeria or the first lady of the Congo or any of these first ladies because I didn’t know they existed, I didn’t know what they were doing,”"

"Maybe you don’t want to drink a big heavy Napa Cab right now — or maybe you do, I don’t know!”No judgment here, but her recommendation is to lean into something refreshing and seasonal."

"Bloom went from working other people's games to starting her own – a leap that came with even more power and influence. "And then, ultimately, I started bankrolling the game and extending credit,""

"“I’ve always been ambitious, but I learned it needs to be something bigger than myself,” she said. “My old job, I was able to see what these guys wanted and give them transformational experiences. At the end of the day, that didn’t mean much. But I have this skill set. Now I want to create transformational experiences for women, whether it’s co-working spaces or a digital network involving blockchain.”"

"I was looking for this thing that would make me feel validated, make me feel like someone, make me feel significant. And I sort of found it."

"I was a fly on the wall, and I'm privy to all this inside information about all these different industries. ... And at the end of the night, people were tipping me and I made more money that night than I'd made the whole month.""

"People who are in the seats of leadership are boomers and beyond, and they grew up in a very different leadership context.” The ‘my way or the highway’ attitude does not work for millennials and they, “demand, as table stakes, transparency, inclusivity and feedback.”"

"Lead to Win,” is a concise and charismatic effort that promotes leadership reflection."

"Leadership has transformed from oversight to insight,”"

"Never count yourself out."

"“Lead to Win”"

"There is a measure of creating the culture that happens with proximity,” Harris told The Informer,” proximity breeds familiarity, and familiarity fosters mentorship.”"

"We are blessed so that we may be a blessing to others.""

"It’s not an either-or type of thing,"

"Give your influence away," she urged her listeners. "Amplify your impact by creating other leaders. Think of yourself as a kingmaker, a queenmaker." Invest in the success of the people in whom you see potential, she continued, because building one another up goes both ways. "You won't be successful if your people don't believe in you, so you have to invest in their success as well."

"Leaders, hear me clearly. "If you don't trust them, they won't trust you."

"I'm self-aware enough that when I walk into that Birmingham board room, I know I have to be able to connect with those men so they will hear me," she said. "It's about speaking and showing up in a way that your listeners will hear you, embrace you and act upon what you say."

"Say 'I see you,' and invite them to join the conversation. Everyone values being heard.""

"One of the most valuable things you can do as an influential leader is to listen,"because people will always tell you what they value and what they want. When you know that, you can deliver—and then you can make the sale."

"Everybody Is Somebody's Child." "No matter how different we seem, we need to identify what we have in common," Harris said. "And one of those things is that everyone is somebody's child."

"“Expect to Win” and “Strategize to Win,"

"I know those boys in Birmingham can't handle the Full Frontal Carla that I am in New York City,"

"As senior women in your organizations, every single one of you in this room has influence,"

"You need to understand that you have it, and that you can use it. Because what you do not use, you will definitely lose. You got here because you earned that seat at that table. Don't give away your power by ignoring that fact."

"I saw some of the most famous people in today's world,""