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Ana Dutra, Leadership Expert

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Ana Dutra is the CEO of Mandala Global Advisors, a company she recently founded, and a senior global advisor for Humantelligence, a technology solutions company. She has 28 years of experience as a global executive, consultant, and business leader in industries such as technology, manufacturing, and professional services. In the last six years as the CEO of Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Consulting, Dutra created a $300 million new global business through a combination of organic growth, multiple acquisitions, innovative go-to-market approaches, and incorporation of technology and digitalization of products and services.

A Brazilian native with more than 20 years of experience in P&L management, business growth, and C-Level business consulting in more than 30 countries, Dutra is also a director on the boards of the Executives Club of Chicago, the International Women Forum, Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago, Governor State University, and Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL).

Dutra holds an MBA from Kellogg, a Master in Economics from Pontificia Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, and a Juris Doctor from Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, all summa cum laude. Fluent in four languages—Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French—she lives in Northfield, IL, with her husband, their three daughters, and their German Shepherd.

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Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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