In this video
Estelle Brachlianoff, CEO of Veolia
, credits her pioneering family for shaping her confidence and career choices.
“I come from a genealogy of powerful women who break barriers and the boundaries which were supposed to be put on them,” she told CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick on the “Executive Decisions” podcast.
Her mother was the first woman in Airbus’ design center in the 1970s, and her grandmother traveled solo through Afghanistan in the 1950s. From an early age, they instilled a common principle: “Be autonomous. Earn your living so you can be free.”
