I always loved listening, coaching and helping people navigate personal challenges. There were two people whose influence had long term, meaningful impacts on me: my dad and my colleagues at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting Group. Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story? None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. I embrace that I am enough just because I am rather than because I performed in a certain way. Now I own it, speak it, and make amends with others if necessary. Over time, I learned to see it, feel it, and let it go more easily. Like many of us, I am my biggest critic when I make mistakes or miss a target in some way. I could do this for others, but not as easily for myself. The lesson for me has been learning to extend myself grace and compassion when mistakes occur. What does come to mind is the reality there were many mistakes and blips (mostly little and some larger) along the way. Truthfully, nothing spectacular comes to mind. Helping family-owned manufacturing companies scale with ERP in a way that aligns with their values is a very personal role for me.Ĭan you share a story about the funniest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lessons or ‘take aways’ you learned from that? Both heavily influenced where I ultimately landed in the world. From both I learned first-hand the benefits and struggles that come from owning your own business. They eventually chose for my mom to make running their household her focus, and after taking herself from secretary to successful real estate agent, she quit working outside the home when I was in high school.īoth of my parents’ choices resulted in a great deal of privilege for me including access to a quality education via my mom and stepdad, entrepreneurship, business operations and the job that eventually launched my long time career via my dad. Eventually my mom remarried my stepfather a wonderful man (albeit more old school as he was 16 years her senior) with his own law firm. My dad started a small retail business for fly fisherman and grew the business during my growing up years. They divorced when I was four, which resulted in my mom’s shift from stay-at-home to single, working mom.
This drove most of how they showed up in the world. I was born and raised in Eugene, OR in the 1970’s and 80’s by parents who, with the exception of their passion for the culinary arts, were essentially opposites one who was way left, the other way right politically. Can you tell us a bit about your ‘backstory’ and how you got started?
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