For me, leadership is making a difference. It’s using your agency to bring about change. Melanne Verveer Read Quote
Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it – the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges. Melanne Verveer Read Quote
I hope that through Fast Forward, we can encourage women everywhere to know their power wherever they find themselves; to find their purpose; and to connect with others in order to create a better world – especially for women and girls. Melanne Verveer Read Quote
We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold. Melanne Verveer Read Quote
My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department. Melanne Verveer Read Quote
Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress. Melanne Verveer Read Quote
Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates. Melanne Verveer Read Quote
