...and it was so inspiring! The woman in question is Dierdre Connelly, our new president! I'm a member of the Executive Communications group at my company and our main agenda is to support all the communications of and from our president. Historically, the president of the US business in our company (and I believe Pharma companies of its size) have always been white males. Imagine our collective delight when we found out on the 30th of January that our new prez was not only female but Latina!
I got to meet her today and spend some hours listening to her address groups within the company, and it was a great education.
Lessons learned:
As if that wasn't enough, I met up with some friends in Wayne PA tonight. My friend Tom is a life coach and he needed my friend Kim and I to act out some skits for a transition seminar he was leading in two weeks. Through this, I'll learn some job/life transitioning skills which in this economy, with pending layoffs at my job, are skills I'm gonna need!
Here are the things I learned in passing:
- We're ALWAYS in transition in life. The goal is to get to a place where our talents, skills - who we are - intersects with the real needs in the world.
- We get what we can handle.
- The three A's of handling transition are Awareness, Alignment & Accountability.
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