She’s One of Only 8% of Women Who Occupy the Role of Chief Financial Officer at a Fortune 1,000 Company

How do you balance the needs of your employees with your own needs? I find it hard to have time or energy to focus on my own career needs. Is it something I’m going to have to do before work or on...

How do you deal with usually (male) managers who try to manage you out?

What is one piece of advise you'd give to someone who'd like to be in an executive position in five to ten years?

What was your biggest professional challenge and how did you over come it.

What are some of the key experiences from your career path that inspire you in your current role at TRP?

What is the greatest challenge that you have had to manage through in your career? How about the greatest achievement?

As women in the workplace we want to be polite so we wait to be called on. To avoid coming off as opinionated, we qualify our opinions and speak in terms of questions and not statements. We ask...

How do you balance being a mother and a professional? What have you sacrificed, both personally and professionally, at each stage of your career?

What career behaviors have you observed (women or men) that you consciously decided not to mimic or adopt?

What was one of your hardest challenges as a woman working in a male dominated environment?

If you could provide one piece of advice to yourself at the beginning of your career (presuming a time machine were available), what would that advice be? How have your assumptions changed (or...

To what extent did you plan your career path? Did you aim for a C-suite position, or did you take on new opportunities as they arose?

What valuable piece of advice have you received in your career?

Looking back over your previous experiences, is there anything you wished you knew earlier on in your career that might have been impactful in your decision making and path?

What advice do you have for women who may want to reinvent themselves and move away from what they have always done toward something completely new and different? Is there room for that or do you...

What best practices have you seen employed by other firms to advance senior women?

What are you doing personally to groom or mentor other women for C-Suite roles and to change the culture/shift the thinking of men, internally and externally, that you work with in C-Suite roles...

Of course high-level strategies like trusting yourself, being confident, or demonstrating your work ethic are useful guiding principles throughout your career, but what day-to-day practices in...

You are young for a CFO, particularly for such a large company and regardless of gender, and as such you are responsible for a very broad range of business functions and priorities. Can you...

What book would you recommend for leadership? Who did you look up to and why? Top quote to inspire you/others?

Any advice for someone who is trying to transition into finance with minimal experience?

Impact of the financial plans with Covid

I didn’t start saving for retirement until I was 29 years old. How much of my income should I set aside? I feel like I am behind.

I’m relatively new to the company and trying to grow into an exec / leadership position where the current exec team are old friends or working with each other for years - what advice can you give?

Male dominant fields like finance or IT

When you witness it happening, how do you address it? Is it worth addressing?

Is there any way to combat unconscious bias in the workplace without catering your behaviour to men?

I find men speak over me or louder - many times repeating what I have already said. How do you get "the floor" in meetings?

Looking back, what advice would you give yourself 5-10 years ago to help with where we are today?

What factor is most important in your success to overcome the imbalanced gender difference throughout your career?

Celine - How have you been able to effectively balance work and personal life, and do you credit any of your immediate family members in helping support your professional success throughout your...

What is your least favorite quality in a person you have to work with? How do you deal with it, when you encounter it?

What advice would you give your younger self? Or what might you have done differently if only you had known then what you know now?

What philosophy or values guide your personal financial decisions?

What advice would you give to the next generation of female innovators and leaders, and how are you personally developing and mentoring women in your organization now?

What is the biggest mistake or regret in your career?

Do you view language (the inability to understanding and speak multiple languages) as a substantial barrier in a professional environment?

Have you ever encountered gender bias as you grew professionally? If so, how did you overcome it?

How are you juggling career, home, etc. during these uncertain times?

What is your #1 piece of advice to working mom's trying to give it their all at home and at the workplace?

How to do recommend "building your brand" and networking while we WFH indefinitely ?

As a successful career person and mother, what are some things you have done to find balance between work and personal life without neglecting one over the other?

How to show your ambition and have it be perceived as a positive by colleagues/managers? How to network when WFH and when almost everyone in “power” is male?

What were the most difficult questions you were asked when pursuing the CFO role?

Top books or people that motivated you during your career and why.

Once you had more clarity around the direction you wanted to take your career, can you speak to how you established a work-life balance while maintaining both as a priority? With so many...

Have you faced age-bias in your career and how did you deal with it?

Can you share a story of a time you felt that you were especially able to capitalize on your strengths and grow in your confidence?

If you could talk to your younger self, what would you say? How would you encourage them and what would you advise against doing knowing what you do now?

I'm really curious to how you navigated to a CFO position. Was that your starting goal or did it evolve over time?

Do you have a recommended strategy for building a diverse leadership team in a typically male-dominated industry like tech?

How has T. Rowe Price evolved from a traditionally male dominated company to its current environment where there are many women in leadership roles in the IT, PMO and marketing teams? How do you...

What is the best thing to do to break through the glass ceiling?

What is a good tactic to get looked at as a potential CFO in a predominately Male C suite industry?

What type of backgrounds are generally considered? I have wonderful mix of law, tech, and business, but sometimes I feel a specialized candidate vs. generalized candidate is often sought after.

How do you maintain a work life balance while holding a C-suite position?

What is your opinion about mostly getting companies to be debt free, besides maybe a short term and highly managed debt for a specific project and time frame. I find when companies are free from...

Can you talk about the relative importance of credentials? How important are advanced degrees or certifications to advancing to the C Suite?

I am currently a Controller and have been for many years. I've read articles, tried to beef up my financial skills because I would like to break into a CFO role. But every time I apply for a CFO...