Tell us a bit about your background and the career you had before becoming CEO at Susan G. Komen. How did you choose a retail career?

When you decide to “lean out” or you are forced to do so, a lot of identity-shedding happens suddenly.

You rocked your career. You embraced the mission and advanced the vision of your employer … not to mention that you made money for them...

I wrote Caregiving Confidential: Path of Meaning to respond to a gap in people’s retirement planning that especially impacts women ...

After college, I had intended to go to law school, but I got interested in business and decided to aim for business school instead.

My rise to the top of Canada’s fashion publishing food chain surprised everyone, including me.

The adverse effects of the pandemic and recession have fallen disproportionately on women.

Given its assault on life, livelihood, and our collective psyche, the Covid pandemic easily qualifies as “the worst of times.”

I’d worked about 25 years in the advertising industry (which is about the equivalent of 50 in dog years). The industry had stopped being...