"“I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest to Brilliant Minds in 2018 and 2019. And I had the most amazing experience. I thought it was a really unique gathering of the most interesting people convening on the most important issues of our time.”"

"“They started looking for a new CEO and I was headhunted. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I knew I was excited by it as soon as I got to know the board. It just cemented that this is absolutely what I wanted to do,”"

"“You just have the most amazing group of interesting people driving change and impact, and I feel so fortunate to get to learn from them every day,”"

"I started working with a postural expert."

"I wanted to fix my posture."

"“I absolutely adore Malala. I find her very inspiring. Equally, I find Emma Watson incredibly inspiring and as Angela Merkel is now finished in office I would love the opportunity to hear from her... and then I'm really inspired by the decisions that Alexandre Arnault makes, so I would love to be able to get him on stage too.”"

"I would say my posture wasn't bad previously, but it wasn't excellent."

"The chance for a long walk with a loved one, downtime with family, the opportunity to learn a new language or skill."

"“in the beginning. There were many times I was mistaken for an executive assistant instead of the CEO when people arrived to meet the CEO”"

"Look, I talk to strangers all the time…I met my husband on an airplane. You know, I've met so many interesting people on airplanes.”"

"“I had the feedback that I was quite alpha and I saw that behavior in myself as well. I felt to be a really effective and well-respected CEO, you had to have that energy. But then I saw somebody I was managing, a young woman, have that energy as well and I didn't like seeing that I'd influenced somebody to behave like that because that's what they thought they needed to do to succeed.”"

"I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be."

"“It was hugely tough but we decided that my career would take the lead, so we put his business on ice and we went,” she says. “I have a great husband, that’s one of the magic ingredients.”"

"“…whilst I was always very clear about where I wanted to go, I have always been willing to kind of like throw it all up in the air and try something new.”"

"“I've always been a little bit like this. I'm huge on New Year's resolutions. I'm huge on setting goals, but I think we're always an evolution…You grow, and you learn things about yourself, and you read more. And I think that it's an evolution.""

"I want to improve about myself, for example, I took this role and it was a much more public facing role."

"“We cannot leave this problem to the Government and schools. We need to work together to help young people – and to develop the next generation of skilled employees for the future.”"

"“As a country we walked away from apprenticeships and manufacturing generally. Now it’s very much back on the agenda, but we’ve got a lot of catching up to do to make sure we’re got the right skills.""

"“We have to bring young people in and really equip them, and move them through really fast. But we also have to up-skill – they are going to be the engineers for tomorrow.”"

"I remember my mom saying, “oh my God, you’re so ambitious."

"There is a stage presence that you have to have."

"These things don’t have to cost a lot of money."

"“Even out of the recession, we don’t believe that is going to come down massively,”"

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

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

"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."

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

"Another is the business mix."

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

"“I have had an amazing career over the past 40 years and worked with extraordinary people who share my passion for the food and drink industry,”"

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

"Much depends on what you call a top job."

"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."

"I took a pay cut and went into newspapers."

"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."

"It dawned on me that being on call for difficult corporate finance clients day and night was family unfriendly."

""Now it is time for me to do something else while maintaining my interest in skills and young people. For me, the future is about continuing to be involved in the things I love while finding more time to enjoy my wonderful family and, in particular, my beautiful grandsons.”"

"Nobody used that word, and I did not then have children but I had noticed there was only one female director in the entire department."

"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."

"I'd never heard of the glass ceiling, still less the concrete one."

"I'd studied what I wanted (philosophy and history) while ensuring I did the maths for arts students course."

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

"The pre fast track entrance week at a big American corporation and a research job in the House of Commons."

"Pearson will still behave as it has in the past, which is to review all the time what the best assets are."

"It will be careful in deciding how to handle it."

"It will not be religious about it."

"I talked my way into a transfer on good expat terms to New York."

"Although we won a Pulitzer Prize, we sold the paper to someone else for a dollar and then they broke it up and threw it away."

"The experience taught her a valuable lesson."

"You know how the world's changed over the last 16 years, and we've got a lot of amazing opportunities but they require very long-term choices and long-term plans"