Capacity for Leadership

Encouraging my classmates to share their experiences in class, especially the less vocal ones

Demonstrated and grew my leadership skills in my team and my cohort - Class members told me I am “the glue” and thanking me for helping them to stay organized and engaged

Applied my love of community building with my classmates: started the program off by creating a Slack workspace for us to connect throughout the program and pandemic, and surprised the new cohort and our Econ professor with 8 dozen macarons after one of their Immersion classes

Applied leadership lessons to navigate challenging stakeholders and team members for a large, complex security cross-company initiative at Microsoft.

Made an impact on my team at work as a senior leader, and then began managing another Product Manager on the team.

Managing the complexities of parenting a toddler while working full-time and studying for an MBA during a pandemic helped me to grow my resiliency and patience, not to mention time-management