Babes On Bay Street

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Lauren. Advice, Wisdom, Courage and Inspiration

I asked Lauren what advice she would give to a young woman and she said her best advice was to pick your spot and be really conscious of the choices you are making. Lauren says she looks back at some of her job choices and knows she shouldn’t have made them, so she would advise a young woman to pick her spots. Lauren went on to say that this advice is particularly relevant with respect to choices about the people you are going to be working with and in this vein she added be true to yourself. Looking back, she said: “there’s a lot of crap out there and I think people…I think of some of the characters I was ...

Lauren. Early Career Years

I asked Lauren to tell me about her career and to think about the milestones or roadblocks that stood out in her mind when she looked back and what she learned from them. Lauren worked for five years at a Schedule A bank before she went back to do her MBA and she feels the bank was incredibly good to her. When she returned to school, they paid to move her to the university town where she would study and in her second year, they offered to pay her full salary which she declined. She went back to MBA school because the job that she wanted in the international management development program at the bank required participants to have an MBA ...