Career Background:
- Best selling author of her book "The Cancer Channel"
- COO for a start up in SF Adentro
- Ebay for over 14 years
- Consultant at Accenture
- Started her career at Chubb in LA and spent time in NYC
Educated at
- Occidental College
- Cornell for the MBA
- Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa culinary institute
Highlights
- what to do during "down time" her YMCA Gig
- Having PhD Parents and loving learning
- Talking her way into numerous jobs
- What is this Management Consulting all about
- MBA at Cornell and NO interest in Wall Street
- Cross country move with Accenture and Ebay
- Going it alone without mentors on some heavy decisions
- Suffering from the Princess Complex
- The impact of her parents
- Drive across America
- The power of the Sabbaticals
- Culinary School on a Sabbatical
- Being a learner
- Train ride from New York city to Albany
- Writing her first book
- After quitting no looking for a job for 2 months
- High sense of urgency and drive
- Backing a colleague into a corner
- Giving more grace AND space
- When the student is ready the teacher appears
- If you treated your friends like you treat yourself, you wouldn't have any friends
- Falling in love with reading again
- Why Not?
- Brian Stevenson Conversation
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