When I meet new people, I like to say that I grew up with Southern sensibilities and East Coast values. Take what you will from that.

I spent my childhood between Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the greater Dallas, Texas areas. I was fortunate to have two older brothers who navigated the American public school system in the South, college applications and the job search as Asian Americans. They filled in many of the gaps that my parents, who will forever be immigrants in their eyes and others, had.

After graduating high school, I moved to the East Coast to attend Wellesley College, an all women’s college right outside Boston. I loved it, and that’s all I’ll say here. Please ask me more.

Prior to graduating, I realized that I needed to delay my graduation by a few months because I was missing one core requirement…don’t tell my parents. (Yes, I am 30 and still keeping some of my academic history a secret from my parents.)

I was fortunate to have internships during my college years, mostly geared towards the public sector. However, after graduation, my career has take me down a path of product and strategy within financial services and healthcare.

Mentorship has been so valuable to me as both a mentor and mentee. The most exciting aspect of mentorship is that both people grow and hopefully make better decisions because of the relationship.

• Product management - taking a product from zero to one
• Sales strategy - finding product market fit
• Sales strategy - determining commercialization strategies
• Sales - leading direct sales efforts to major healthcare companies including pharma, healthcare IT, health systems
• Life at a 5-person startup, life at a 30-person startup, life at a 100-person startup, life at a 40K behemoth
• Managing a global team
• Managing an outsourced team
• Managing up - aka, how to manage your manager
• How to manage a team and bring out the best in your people

  Advice - always keep your options open; always move one step forward

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• Long distance relationships
• Moving abroad from the US
• Navigating the workplace as a religious employee - aka, how to talk to your manager and team about non-Christian holidays, shabbat, etc.
• How to manage unwanted attention in the workplace
• Prioritizing your self and your time over work
• Managing your relationship with parents as the relationship dynamic changes and ultimately, realizing that they may never change

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• I will focus more on listening than providing my take
• I will try to give advice with detailed examples instead of generalizations
• I will focus on what is within your control to change