…If you aren’t messing up at least a little bit every six months or so, then you aren’t trying hard enough or pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. We all need to get comfortable taking a risk and making mistakes. I think I have benefitted from working at smaller organizations and start ups where I was forced to make decisions I really didn’t feel qualified to make. I learned to ask for help, gather as much information as I could, and ultimately make the best decision I could with the information I had. Some of those worked out and many didn’t.
As a part of my series about strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Mayer. Whitney has spent over a decade working at the intersection of the private, public, and social sectors, is passionate…