EXECUTIVE INSIGHT
Q . CAN YOU PLEASE TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR CAREER PATH ?
» I am a very proud mum and wife to my best friend . I have three amazing humans who I get to call my children and one dog who they require me to also call one of my children .
I am mother to three baby chickens , who are residing in our living room until they move to their forever home .
I love watercolour painting and I love pickleball – I ’ ve joined that fad . I have an earring problem , meaning I collect all of them everywhere . And I absolutely love my job . I ’ m a small town girl who happened to get stuck in the corporate world , so it ’ s an unexpected ride .
I grew up in a really small town of about 5,000 people in southern Indiana . I currently live in Texas , but we just moved here about a year and a half ago , so I don ’ t feel fully Texan yet .
I took the only paid internship that was near my school and so I drove about 30 minutes away to General Electric , which had a plastics manufacturing plant . I took it for the pay , but it was incredible .
After I completed that internship and when I graduated they let me go into a leadership development programme that was highly competitive .
When I went to the interview I was absolutely terrified . But somehow I got the gig . And then , the next thing I knew , I was moving every six months and getting a different opportunity . It was wonderful , which is why I spent about a decade with GE .
I worked for Coca-Cola , 3M and McKesson and now for Dell Technologies .
I ’ ve been able to work and lead teams sitting in R & D and supply chain , in legal and corporate affairs and marketing – you name it , I ’ ve probably worked and or had a team in that function .
Q . WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB ?
» I get to work with people who are about something bigger than business and bigger than themselves .
That is amazing , because we have very different conversations , and we have very different reasons for working in the space that we ’ re working in .
Second , we get the challenge of working on something that ’ s super meaningful to you , but with the business challenge .
You have that really complex situation where you ’ re trying to do good for the world , but make it sustainable and good for business . That is really really challenging to me . I get bored easily and if I didn ’ t have that constant challenge I would probably be in different spaces all of the time .
This one is so not solved yet . So I don ’ t foresee being less challenged for the foreseeable future .
And lastly , the whole reason I ’ m in this is because I do think that solving some of these challenges at the core comes back to business making this sustainable .
I firmly believe that when businesses are expected to have both financial and societal value , it ’ s going to change the game for everything , everywhere .
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