Awards & Recognition
★Time 100 Most Influential People in the World (2012)
★Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women (multiple years: #4 in 2017, #6 in 2018, #9 in 2014, #36 in 2021)
★Fortune's Most Powerful Women rankings consistently 2007-2018
★Wall Street Journal 50 Women to Watch (2007-2008)
★Business Week 25 Most Influential People on the Web (2009)
★Newsweek and The Daily Beast Digital Power Index (2012)
★Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award
★John H. Williams Prize for top economics student at Harvard University
★Thinkers50 Best Book Award shortlist for Lean In (2013)
★Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award shortlist (2013)
★Jerusalem Post World's 50 Most Influential Jews #8 (2013)
Notable Facts
→Former COO of Meta (Facebook) for 14 years (2008-2022), helped grow company from $150 million to $110 billion in annual revenue
→First woman elected to Facebook's board of directors
→Founded LeanIn.Org in 2013, supporting 86,000+ women in Lean In Circles across 183 countries
→Author of bestselling books 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' (4.2 million copies sold) and 'Option B' (co-authored with Adam Grant)
→Net worth estimated at $2.4 billion according to Forbes (July 2025)
→Harvard MBA with highest distinction, summa cum laude economics degree
→Former VP of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google
→Chief of Staff to US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers under President Clinton
→Famous TED talk 'Why we have too few women leaders' viewed millions of times
→Donated $100 million in Facebook stock to charitable foundation
→Co-founder of Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners
→Conducts annual Women in the Workplace study with McKinsey & Company