SHERYL SANDBERG

Sheryl Sandberg (28 de agosto de 1969) é unha executiva de tecnoloxía, activista e escritora. É a directora executiva de Facebook, e a fundadora de Leanin. org.

Nacida en Washington, D. C. nunha familia xudía, estudiou en Harvard e en 1991 graduouse summa cum laude cunha licenciatura en económicas, tralo cal traballou un tempo no Banco Mundial. En 1995 obtivo un Máster en Administración de Empresas coa máxima distinción na Harvard Business School.

Máis tarde, sirveu coma xefa de gabinete de Lawrence Summers, Secretario do Tesouro dos Estados Unidos durante o goberno de Clinton. Cando os republicanos gañaron en 2000, mudouse a Silicon Valley e traballou para Google como vice presidenta de operacións e ventas globais online. En 2008 comezou a traballar en Facebook como directora executiva, e en 2012 convirteuse na oitava integrante e primeira muller da xunta directiva.

En 2012 apareceu en Time 100, unha lista anual das 100 persoas máis influíntes do mundo, segundo Time Magazine.

No seu primeiro libro "Lánzate: Mulleres, Traballo e a Vontade de Liderar", publicado en 2013, argumenta que é necesario romper as barreiras sociais e persoais que impiden que as mulleres desempeñen labores de liderazgo no traballo, como a discriminación, o sexismo, o acoso sexual ou os roles de xénero que as propias mulleres internalizan. Sheryl pensa que é necesario animar ás mulleres a lanzarse a asumir postos de liderazgo, pois cree que habendo máis mulleres en posicións de poder, crearanse máis oportunidades equitativas para todos.

"Tomar a iniciativa vale a pena. É difícil visualizar a alguén coma líder se ela está sempre esperando que lle digan o que ten que facer"

Sheryl Sandberg (August 28, 1969) is a technology executive, activist and author. She is the chief operating officer of Facebook, and the founder of Leanin. org .

Born in Washington, D.C. to a Jewish family, she studied at Harvard and in 1991 she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics, and after that she worked for a while at the World Bank. In 1995 she obtained a MBA with the highest distinction at Harvard Business School.

Later, she served as the chief of staff of Lawrence Summers, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States during the Clinton administration. When Republicans won in 2000, she moved to Silicon Valley and worked for Google as vice president of global online sales and operations. In 2008, she started working for Facebook as a Chief Operating Officer, and in 2012 she became the eighth member and the first woman of the board of directors.

In 2012 she appeared in the Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, according to Time Magazine.

In her first book, "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead", published in 2013, she argues that it is necessary to break social and personal barriers that prevent women from performing leadership work, such as discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, or the gender roles that women themselves internalize. Sheryl thinks it is necessary to encourage women to start taking leadership positions, because she believes that having more women in positions of power will create more equitable opportunities for all. "Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do."