A sentiment that has stuck with Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and founder of Ellevest, since the beginning of her nearly 40-year career is that she refuses to have impostor syndrome.
A longtime banker, Krawcheck shattered many glass ceilings in the time that she spent on Wall Street. Throughout the 2000s, she held the CEO title at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management as well as US Trust, Citi Wealth Management, Smith Barney, and Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. And she also served as chief financial officer at Citi. But to get there, and eventually cofound and launch Ellevest in 2014, she says she had to learn to ignore the moments when impostor syndrome started to creep in.
