Kathy Baughman McLeod has been a leader in both nonprofits and for-profits, so when I spoke with her recently, I heard several insights that we can all benefit from in our own careers, especially mid-career women.
: McLeod told me the story about when she was waiting tables in graduate school inand one of her regular customers worked at the EPA and asked her about her own career. Ultimately, that customer connected McLeod to her friend at the EPA who gave McLeod her first “real” job in the environmental space.: McLeod spent that first job running around the state mapping degraded lands, work which has stayed with her throughout her career.
: If your current work isn’t resonating with you, and you find something else that does, after careful deliberation, it’s okay to change jobs, as she did from GIS-focused work to policy work. , focused on exploring finding the “right” role for you in your organization before you jump ship. McLeod also made the important point that relocating can build adaptability muscles and I attest to that as well. She moved a lot as a child, since her dad was in theHere’s how she described what she looks for: “What are the incentives? What are theof communication here? Mostly, what’s driving people? What are people trying to get done here? How do they do it?...Just understanding the underpinnings of an organization.
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