Shellye Archambeau has been doing a virtual road show of sorts. She's talking to companies and organizations about leadership and career management. She's also hosting monthly online sessions where she answers questions and doles out secrets to her success to online participants. This is in addition to her board responsibilities at four leading public companies. She has also been profiled in a Harvard Business School case study of her rise to CEO of Zaplet, which later merged with MetricStream. Helping others is nothing new for Archambeau.

The Harvard case study is a page-turner, outlining Archambeau's storied career as an African American woman who rose through the leadership ranks at tech companies. At IBM, she worked her way up from an intern to managing the company's Asia Pacific public sector business (taking on the unit because it presented the most significant career challenge). She left IBM to serve as president of Blockbuster's e-commerce division, where she identified Netflix as an early e-commerce threat. After leaving Blockbuster, she built MetricStream into a global risk and compliance analytics behemoth with 1,200 employees around the globe through a merger with Zaplet.