Kathryn Valentine

The woman who used those words was successfully promoted.

Here's another one.

Instead of, I want to work less, you could use the formula to say something like, as you know, I piloted a new onboarding process this quarter and it's getting great results.

We can roll it out across the company next year, but in order to do that, I need to work the hours when I'm most productive, which is typically earlier in the day.

How can we make this work?

That woman no longer works late into the evenings.

Now, you might be thinking, this isn't fair.

I shouldn't have to deal with gender bias at all.

You're right.

And we can wait for gender parity.

Estimates are it will only take 191 years.

In the meantime, there are 79 million women who need tools to be successful now.

Another one I've been hearing recently is, well, won't AI fix this for me?

I wish that were true, and for a while I thought it was.

Unfortunately, it turns out AI's strength is in its ability to gobble up huge amounts of information, most of which on this particular topic is what researchers call crap.

Did you know that we make 35,000 decisions every day?

As women, so many of those decisions are made to optimize for other people.

What does my boss need?

My team?

My kids?