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Full of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley’s first African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals, drawn from the author’s own compelling story of how she weathered life’s difficulties to build massive success.

Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young black woman, wife, and mother, managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO. Through the busts and booms of Silicon Valley in the early 2000s, this bold and inspiring book details the risks she took and the strategies she engaged to steer her family, her career, and her company MetricStream toward success.  Through her journey, Shellye discovered that ambition alone is not enough to achieve success.

Shellye has over 25 years of experience in technology leading organizations focused on business to business as well as business to consumer. She is a recognized expert in marketing and co-authored Marketing That Works: How Entrepreneurial Marketing Can Add Sustainable Profits to Any Sized Company.

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