Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.
The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.
Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.
I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.