Friday 20 October 2017

Sheryl Sandberg Author, Activist, Chief Operating Officer

By Donna Nelson


While women are now making it further in business than ever before, it is still a struggle for many. When it comes to Sheryl Sandberg, it is a struggle the young activist and author met head on before becoming a Chief Operating Officer at Facebook and founder of Learnin dot com. As such, the young business woman has moved up corporate ladders only men could climb in the past.

The success story of Ms. Sandberg began when she was born to Jewish parents in Washington, D. C. In August of 1969. After which, living in Menlo Park, California as a young girl then moving to Florida shortly before high school. Upon graduating a Florida high school, the student attended Harvard University and received honors as a graduate with a Bachelors of Arts and Masters Of Arts in Business Administration.

A proud Democrat, Ms. Sandberg now finds herself challenged to continue the climb when it comes to business and politics. In fact, many while forced to live with the results of the last election are trying to find ways to survive the next few years without incident or injury to oneself, one's business or political party. As such, the activist and business woman remains quite active in both areas.

Boards which Ms. Sandberg now sits on include, Women for Women International, Center for Global Development, V-Day and SurveyMonkey. While a proud member of each board, there are often heated discussions with relation to ongoing change in all areas of business and government. Although, having gone through two divorces and having raised two children, the young business woman shows a great deal of strength and integrity when dealing with differences of opinion and other issues.

As a career woman, it has taken several positions and a bit of luck before finding the position at Facebook. In fact, the young tech savvy business woman assisted in online operations, research and development and sales at Google before making the career move to Facebook. As a politician, the activist, author and business woman was appointed as Secretary to United States Secretary Lawrence Summers.

Back in 2012, Ms. Sandberg was honored by Time Magazine as being one of the one-hundred most influential people in the world. Most likely, something the Jewish daughter of an Ophthalmologist and College teacher might never have envisioned as a child. Although, after becoming a A+ student in the Florida public school system, it was quite clear Sheryl would be a success at a number of endeavors both as a young student and later in life.

For, during her school days, Sheryl became sophomore class president and sat on the executive board. The teenager also taught aerobics while still attending high school. While at Harvard, the young college student received a number of awards, co-founded an organization related to women in economics and graduated with honors.

In 2007, at a holiday party Sheryl met and conversed with Mark Zuckerberg, a competitor and rival at Facebook. For, at the time she was working at technology giant Google. Upon meeting and talking about business, Mark became interested in hiring Ms. Sandberg.

Ultimately, Ms. Sandberg still faces a lot of challenges both within and outside Facebook. The success of the past, if any prediction of the future, indicates the business woman will have no problem facing these and other challenges head on. Whether or not a political appointment exists in the future, the activist, author and Chief Operating Officer will no doubt garner a great deal of followers regardless of political party or other affiliations.




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