Stefanie O?Connell

Stefanie O'Connell is an award-winning journalist debunking myths around women’s work, money and ambition that fuel modern day gender inequality.

“Rigorous, incisive and galvanizing,” her book, "The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up — and Then Pushes Them Down," is “a testament to what’s possible when women are liberated from keeping themselves small to make other people comfortable.”

Stefanie also wrote, hosted and co-produced the WEBBY award-winning podcast “Money Confidential” for REAL SIMPLE magazine. In her "Too Ambitious" newsletter, she uses data to expose how power and gender collide to keep women “in their place” — and shows how liberating women’s ambitions can liberate us all.