Breaking Barriers and Building Consensus: A Senator’s Guide to Leadership

In Thirty Minute Mentors: Senator Barbara Boxer, listeners will learn more about politics, leadership and dealmaking in politics and beyond.

In this course, Adam Mendler speaks with Barbara Boxer, a senator who has served in the U.S. Senate for 24 years. Senator Boxer discusses her early years and what influenced her decision to get into politics. The two also talk about what it was like to break into and excel within the world of politics as a woman, the importance of equality in male-dominated industries, key leadership qualities, negotiations and dealmaking, learning from failure, filmmaking, and more.