I just interviewed Sallie Krawcheck, the chairman and CEO of Citi Global Wealth Management, who’s accepting the award on behalf of Citigroup Inc.

She was quite refreshing. She told me, and I’ve written about this before, that women don’t speak up at raise time. They have, she says, the prince charming syndrome. Someone is going to come along and take care of them and they will ride off on a white horse. Translated to the workplace, “someone will realize what great work I’m doing.”

Well ladies, they won’t notice, not usually. You have to speak up and ask for what you’re worth.

It’s not easy, for sure. Krawcheck admitted she breaks out in blotches on her neck every time she has to go in and ask for money. Her advice: wear a turtleneck. At least that’s what she does when she comes a knockin on the Citi Global top bosses’ doors for more money. And she takes in some water to drink because she says the process makes her spit dry up.

And she wanted to tell women with kids out there that figuring out what the heck you want to do with your life isn’t easy. When she had her kid 13 years ago she left Corporate America and decided she wanted to be an entrepreneur. But, she explains, “I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do.”

She decided to become a research analyst because she thought it would provide her flexibility but being an overachiever ended up doing tons more work than expect. She ended up back in the corporate world and it’s working for her now.

There are no rules everyone out there. Make your life/career what you want it.