Advice For The Ambitious Girl...Denise Morrison

"Ambition is a part of femininity. So you can be ambitious and you can be feminine and that's both okay."

--Denise M. Morrison, Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today, Leadership Tuesdays continues a series looking at the why women are not seeking advance degrees in business at the same rate as they get other professional degrees and why women are not proportionately represented in senior leadership positions in business.

Meg Whitman's mom gave her some of the best advice that a mom can give any child. That advice has served her extremely well. Sadly, her mom's words still does not apply equally to all women in the United States much less to women around the world.

Taking a look back to the Fall of 2004, Carlotta Mast wrote an article that appeared on the Graduate Management Admission Council's website, gmac.com discussing why women continue to make up less than 50% of the student body at business schools. As stated in her article, companies and business school all say that want to increase the number of women in their leadership positions and programs. But why isn't this happening?

To read her article, click here. For more information on Leadership Tuesdays, see here.

Denise Morrison, CEO of Campbell Soup...On Diversity

"Diversity in a company doesn't happen by chance.  It absolutely takes a leadership imperative.  And you need to declare that you are going to become a more diverse organization because it's good for business.  The consumer is diverse for any business...and therefore it just makes good business sense."  --Denise Morrison, Chief Executive Officer, Campbell's Soup

Source:  From CEO Sisters, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, 90.9 wbur NPR, Boston's NPR Station http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/10/07/ceo-sisters


Every Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. For a feature on Ms. Morrison and Ms. Wilderotter, two sisters who are currently CEOs of major corporations, and for more information on WOMEN AT LIBERTY's Leadership Tuesdays, see http://www.womenatliberty.com.

Leadership Tuesdays: Ambition is...Sisters CEOs Maggie Wilderotter & Denise Morrison

"Ambition is part of being feminine."  --Mother of Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter and Denise Morrison, CEO of Campbell Soup

L-R: Maggie Wilderotter & Denise Morrison

Every Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. For a feature on Ms. Wilderotter and Ms. Morrison and also, more information on WOMEN AT LIBERTY's Leadership Tuesdays, see http://www.womenatliberty.com.