2. Biography
Grew up in North Miami Beach, Florida
Studied economics at Harvard and was awarded the John H. Williams Prize as
the top graduating student in Economics
Went on to Harvard Business School to earn an MBA; graduated with the
highest distinction as a Baker and Ford Scholar
Joined World Bank and advanced as Chief of Staff at age 29
Moved to California and joined Google in 2001 as Vice President of Global
Online Sales & Operations
Hired away by Mark Zuckerberg to become COO of Facebook in 2008
Married at age 24 but divorced a year later. She then went on to marry David
Goldberg, the current CEO of SurveyMonkey in 2004, with whom she has two
children
3. Total Leadership – Creating Four-Way
Wins
• Shared Earning/Shared
Parenting Marriage
• Redefining traditional feminine
and masculine roles: insist their
partners do more parenting
and housework
Work Self
HomeCommunity
• Publication of her 2013 book
Lean In: Women, Work, and
the Will to Lead in 2013
• COO of Facebook
• One of the "50 Most
Powerful Women in
Business" by Fortune
• One of the "50 Women
to Watch" by The Wall
Street Journal
• The Walt Disney Company
• Women for Women
International, the Center for
Global Development and
V-Day
• Starbucks, Brookings
Institution and Ad Council
4. Be Real and Be Whole
“Motivation comes from working on things we care about. But it also comes from
working with people we care about. And in order to care about someone, you have to
know them. You have to know what they love and hate, what they feel, not just what
they think. If you want to win hearts and minds, you have to lead with your heart as
well as your mind. I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through
Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time. That kind of division probably never
worked, but in today's world, with real and authentic voice, it makes even less sense.”
“I've cried at work. I've told people I've cried at work. And it's been reported in the
press that 'Sheryl Sandberg cried on Mark Zuckerberg's shoulder', which is not exactly
what happened. I talk about my hopes and fears and ask people about theirs. I try to
be myself - honest about my strengths and weaknesses - and I encourage others to do
the same. It is all professional and it is all personal, all at the very same time.”
5. Lessons Learned
Be more open to taking career risks
Skip the people pleasing
Visualize your career as a jungle gym, not a
ladder
Allow yourself to fantasize about your career
Start a Lean-In circle
