"I oversee any new customers at any level during the onboarding process – we run a very busy help desk for Premium account holders and end-users for myTrip."

"I went for a promotion."

"lt has been a bit of a journey, my career, in a good way."

"So on that basis, start today."

"I believe that the greatest threat to diversity is the belief that someone else will fix it."

"It’s never too late to start the diversity and inclusion journey."

"So I believe that diversity is the only way that you can really create competitive advantage."

"I guess with that in mind, from a leadership perspective, the motivation levels of the team and the happiness of the end customer."

"It’s really important that we get that commitment from the top."

"The tone is set by the board, by the C-suite and by everyone cascading it downwards."

"So role modelling for diversity comes from the top."

"Startups are uniquely positioned to embrace diversity and I think that’s because they are full of ideas, they have a mindset which is very entrepreneurial and their ideas can change the world."

"Let’s inspire kids in to digital, have more young women joining and staying in the tech sector & encourage diversity in the boardroom."

"Companies are more successful and profitable if they have diversity at the heart of their businesses."

"My ambition is for this country to seize its position as a digital nation of significance by leveraging its technology leadership position and growing a diverse and inclusive skills base."

"I believe that the UK can sustain its position as a magnet for digital investment and for tech talent."

"For me it’s important to know what failure looks like, after all, success is always on the other side of fear."

"Give yourself the space to be the person you want to be versus the person everyone else wants you to be."

"You are a role model whether you choose to be or not, your behaviours are copied, good or bad."

"I think they need to follow a career path that they are passionate about, whatever field that may be in"

"It can take time to find the right balance, but I would say I have always tried to “blend” my life with work, although it can be hard sometimes. If you love what you do it makes it a lot less stressful. I can often be found doing my work emails whilst watching my children on the sports field, or taking my mum on store visits with me."

"It had to be in private homes yet still be social because we all like to share."

"‎I wanted to create a brand new concept and it’d have to be steeped in personal service."

"I sat on the beauty industry trade board CEW and I saw so much innovation in beauty."

"I started and ran Women in Business for five years, and we did mentoring around the country."

"I noticed that women were active in their communities and yes, they were talking about love, beauty, relationships, but the biggest thing I noticed was that that were also talking about wanting to start a business."

"The company also performs that little techie trick known as "search engine optimisation", so that if you want to know how to make the perfect teriyaki chicken, open a bottle of champagne without spilling any, or build your own cold-fusion nuclear reactor etc, it should come out pretty near the top of your Google search."

"About 60 per cent of the traffic comes in from natural search."

"‎It's the biggest short-form social knowledge library on the internet, I believe. We create the knowledge store, and we have interactive tools and community functions."

"I always get in trouble when I say I want to build a $1bn business, because our shareholders say ‘Nancy you shouldn’t be declaring all of that stuff’, But I do want to build a big business."

"We're on this mission to try to enable tens of thousands of women, initially in the UK and then around the world, to be able to have that great flexible but sustainable business but with all that support and mentoring from us."

"And therefore when you’re going into that finance community, which is very male dominated, it’s quite difficult to get that connection and the genuine insight and understanding around those businesses."

"My firm belief is that a lot of the businesses women are creating feel more lifestyle."

"It is surprising to me that investors haven’t realised like what good deal there is to invest in female founders and continue to throw money at this."

"You don’t matter. You should be happy to just work at Starbucks. You should just be happy to become a cleaner and have a job like that. You should just be happy that you are safe. It is an additional form of re-traumatisation that happens to refugees, and there is no solution for it right now."

"We just need to be careful that we don't inadvertently prevent women from taking some of the opportunities by not being in the office when they feel it's beneficial both to their skills and to contribute to the business."

"Businesses do have a role to play in that."

"I benefited enormously from watching some really excellent leaders and how they navigated challenging problems."

"Being seen and then seeing other leaders is a really important part of development."

"We find, certainly at Nationwide... that men are more likely to come into the office than women"."

"It was only in the months that followed, that people realised the downside of home working wasn’t benefitting everyone equally."

"So many ditched the commute and extolled the virtue of flexibility and being able to balance home and work life more seamlessly."

"In the early head-spinning weeks of Covid lockdown, we were quick to champion the benefits of home working."

"We should be in a strong position to inspire the next generation of female leaders. However, our post-pandemic ways of working may deny many women the opportunities that were so important to me in my early career."

"Citing moves in recent years to hold hearings in public and publish decision summaries."

"have always believed we have lots to gain and nothing to lose by being more open about our work."