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Freddie. Career Milestones

Freddie says one of the big milestones for her at the securities firm she had joined was meeting a man who would become her mentor. And she thinks her experience with him illustrates that when you have an advocate, a sponsor, someone that believes in you, irrespective of who they are or their gender, it makes the world of difference. She says: “This man probably believed in me more than I believed in myself and as a consequence he put a bunch of opportunities in front of me over the years. Ironically every time he’d put an opportunity in front of me, I would say, no, I can’t do that, I can’t do that.” And he would say: “What do ...

Lauren. Accomplishments, Success and Significance

I asked Lauren what she considered to be her proudest accomplishments at work. She said they were threefold. The first one was a project in Africa which she described as the most meaningful work she has ever done. I believe her own words allow you to hear the emotion I heard in her voice: “Really. I mean when you think of being able to work directly with the governor of a bank and his people, well educated, University of Chicago PhD’s, trying to fix their country. Where the governor said to me, every cent that goes down the drain on that crappy bank doesn’t go into education, health care, and everything else, so we’ve got to fix that bank. That ...