Angela Lee, Assistant Dean of the Samberg Institute for Teaching Excellence at the Columbia Business School was recently featured in The Huffington Post’s Trailblazing Women series. In addition to serving as Assistant Dean of the Samberg Institute, she also teaches both MBA and Executive Education courses on Strategy Consulting and Leadership Communication at Columbia and is the founder of 37 Angels, an angel investment network that trains women to invest in early stage start-ups. The network funds early stage startups (led by both men and women) and reviews over 2,000 start-ups a year.
Lee received her Bachelors of Arts degree from University of California, Berkeley and her MBA from Columbia Business School. In her interview with The Huffington Post, Lee was asked about how her gender has impacted her career, her achievements, challenges that she faces as a women in a leadership position and her plans for her future.
In the interview, Lee was asked what her biggest challenges have been as a woman leader. Lee describes her experience as “an accumulation of many small things I noticed that happened, because of my gender.”
“When I was working at McKinsey, we had a class of associates and it was me and 17 guys in my department. That both helped and hurt me. On the one hand, it was awkward at times and it felt uncomfortable speaking up, but at the same time, I was very visible. I’ve felt many minor injustices, yet I don’t think I can genuinely say I have been held back, as a woman or hit the glass ceiling,” she said.
Read the rest of Angela Lee’s interview with The Huffington Post, here. For more information on the Columbia Business School, visit metromba.com.