Shelley Zalis- Founder of The Girls' Lounge & CEO Of The Female Quotient

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Shelley Zalis is a founder, CEO and internationally-renowned thought leader for advancing equality in the workplace. Shelley changed the game by becoming the first female chief executive of a company, ranked in the research industry’s top Twenty-Five. Today, as CEO of The Female Quotient, Shelley is advancing gender equality across industries with the Girls’ Lounge: a pop-up experience at conferences across the globe, as well as within companies. In addition to being an entrepreneur and thought leader, Shelley is also an admired speaker and skilled moderator who has interviewed influencers such as Katie Couric, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sheryl Sandberg and Arianna Huffington on topics related to equality and leadership. Today she is here to share how the world of business and tech is changing for women, how you can break through the glass ceiling of middle management and how you can help with the fight for equality in your workplace.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, we have a great guest coming up today. We are chatting with the founder of the
0:06.8	Girls Lounge and CEO of the female quotient Shelly Zales. But first, I want to talk
0:11.7	a little bit about Stitch Fix.
0:14.0	So Stitch Fix, if you don't know what it is, it's super simple.
0:16.0	You fill out your style profile online and Stitch Fix will send you clothes,
0:20.0	shoes, accessories picked just for you, your size, your style, your budget, and of course
0:26.4	things that you will like.
0:28.3	So I'm really excited.
0:29.5	Summers here, need new outfits, obviously, a lot of spaghetti straps they have some really cute
0:35.2	pieces basics prints jewelry and so I recently got a box and it had this really
0:41.0	beautiful slip dress that is something that I'm just
0:44.0	going to take away for some or use every day. Nothing like a slip dress. I know.
0:48.3	Slip it on. Stitch Fix is a super successful business that have made a lot of people very happy and a lot of people also very wealthy because they IPO and the largest like female let IPO this year, I think.
1:01.0	So Katrina Lake is a really, really impressive entrepreneur.
1:06.1	She actually just joined the Board of Glossier, which is pretty cool.
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1:54.9	which was likely given to us by a white-haired dude somewhere in a boardroom in the 1960s and
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