Driven by Intention: Own Your Purpose, Gain Power, and Pursue Your Passion as a Woman at Work

INTRODUCTION

Know thyself.

—PLATO

I’ve worked for some of the world’s biggest and most influential corporations, Accenture, Credit Suisse, Merck, and Novartis among them. As I write this, I am serving as managing director and global head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at investment management firm BlackRock, which oversees more than $9 trillion in assets for retail and institutional investors.

Early in my career, when I was working as a staffing and diversity analyst at Wakefern Food Corporation, I was selected to help the CEO and the chief operating officer create a presentation for the co-op members. At the time, PowerPoint, which has become a common tool for doing presentations, was fairly new to this company, and it was also very ...