Elena Donio helms legal-talent marketplace Axiom, which refers to itself as "the future of law," and previously helped run SAP Concur — yet still encounters sexism. Donio makes it her priority to mentor other women and encourage girls to get ahead at work. Along with calling out sexism when she sees it, Donio tells women not to say "yes" to everything and to take time away from work if they want to spend it with their families. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Elena Donio is the CEO of a major legal talent company that filed to go public earlier this year. She has 20 years of experience leading influential tech firms. And she's sat on the board of companies like Twilio and PayScale. But no matter her accomplishments or how far the corporate ladder she climbs, there's one thing that unites her with women at all levels in the workplace: Men interrupt her when she tries to speak. "I was in a meeting relatively recently with an outside party, where I was cut off in mid sentence several times," Donio told Business Insider. "It was a fairy large room, and there were internal and external parties in the room, and there were even more junior Axiom teammates in that room." "So I had to take a deep breath, and called this individual out, and said, 'If you continue to interrupt me, we're not going to get this meeting done, so you need to stop.'" Donio's experience being the only women on executive teams motivated her to ensure tech and law become more inclusive for women.
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