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Meghan's work combines: Education, Non-Profit Organizations, and Upholding a Cause and Belief
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Red Mountain High School
Bachelor's Degree
Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism
Arizona State University
Graduate Degree
Organizational Communication, General
Northern Arizona University
Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be a First-Line Supervisors of Office & Administrative Support Workers:
High School
Bachelor's Degree: Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism
Graduate Degree: Organizational Communication, General
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Life & Career Milestones
My path in life took a while to figure out
1.
I was a student worker at ASU.
2.
I took a part-time job after graduation (hotel and department store work).
3.
I was hired at the ASU Foundation as an event planner.
4.
I worked for ASU for three years before moving to Flagstaff where I took a job with NAU Alumni.
5.
I worked for NAU Alumni for two years and decided I wanted more executive experience.
6.
Which leads to me sitting where I am today; my experiences directly lead to my current job.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Myself:
Sometimes I wonder what I could have done with my career if I had been more ambitious and believed in myself. I always wondered if I could have been an engineer, but I never considered that degree program - I didn't think I could do it, so I never tried.
How I responded:
I'm a work in progress. In a more leadership-facing position I'm learning to stop apologizing (particularly when a situation is not my fault or out of my control), and I'm learning to be more confident in my decisions and expectations. I want to be respected and spoken to as a peer, and the only way I can achieve that is by changing my behaviors and actions.
Experiences and challenges that shaped me
I freaked out too much. It took me a long time to learn that I can allow myself to be imperfect in this moment, and that's okay. My undergraduate GPA was a 3.32, and I was devastated. Today? It is literally meaningless to my professional success.