"If we really crack this, if we get this right, if we truly have a diverse culture and inclusive culture, that eventually will lead you to a sense of belonging and belonging is about not feeling like you're in an alien environment."

"I look back on my own journey, that feeling of being an outsider was definitely there for a big part of the beginning part of that journey."

"I didn't have a family background in financial services or indeed in business."

"It was just totally alien to the environment I grew up in."

"When I look now at my peers and my cohort, I could reel off in financial services, half a dozen female CEOs right now today, without thinking too hard about it, 20 years ago, that was not the case."

"Analysis Each step and then try and take a really lateral view."

"What is it that you are missing? Start with the premise that it's not working."

"If it’s not working, what would that look like? Does that then look like what you already have?"

"One of the challenges is how you can get something that is meaningful and relevant to every single piece of that quite complex puzzle, which is why things like targets are quite difficult to set in isolation."

"They will look very different for a different company that has a different geographic footprint. Even within the UK, that's true."

"You have to do a kind of audit of all your congregation’s needs."

"It’s always important to me that any theology we do."

"There’s fantastic work being done at both national and diocesan level."

"Younger people and children experience and consume reality differently today."

"I’m fascinated by what it means to be an embodied person in Western society."

"It’s incumbent on all of us to really struggle with OT history."

"Try to work on something that has a purpose."

"We tried, we failed, but we learnt an incredibly important lesson"

"If you fail, you don’t die. Once you realise that, everything is possible."

"I knew very little about public companies at that point."

"I had analysts in on the first day and I could feel them thinking, 'Who is this person?' and I started wondering, 'Who is this person?"

"I don't even use that word because, first of all, that's what old people do."

"That's what you do after dinner."

"I just felt like it was time."

"Time for me, time for the company."

"Never say that again."

"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."

"I learnt then that you can fail and you don't die."

"over my dead body."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"There, shackled to a spreadsheet at midnight before an early morning flight to somewhere like Oklahoma."

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

"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."

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

"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."