Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder and President of the Emerson Collective

Laurene Powell Jobs (widow of Apple founder, Steve Jobs) is the founder and president of the Emerson Collective, which "deploys a wide range of tools — from impact investing to philanthropy to advocacy — in pursuit of a more equal and just America." The collective's focus is on creating systemic change throughout the country by tackling issues such as education, immigration, climate change and more.

Her best advice: "One profound learning I took from [Steve Jobs] was that we don’t have to accept the world that we’re born into as something that is fixed and impermeable,” she said, according to Ladders. “When you zoom in, it’s just atoms just like us. And they move all the time. And through energy and force of will and intention and focus, we can actually change it. Move it.”