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Always transforming, my career has led me along many different paths, all pointing forward.
Right out of Taylor, with my Music Business major and Computer Science minor behind me, I took on a career managing symphony orchestras for several years. After that I went to business school at Carnegie Mellon for an MBA. From there, I spent nearly a decade as a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting. For the last two years, I've been a leader of a Global team of 60+ with Dell Technologies.
The common thread through all of these changes has been leading others, growing myself, and a constant pursuit of work that I find challenging and fulfilling.
Team-based activities are what drew me to music in the first place. This continued at Taylor where I was involved in as many things as possible as a trumpet player.
If you take away one thing from having a foundational liberal arts background, take away the flexibility to adapt. When I contrast my liberal arts education with, say, a more technical education, I see a stronger willingness to stray from a well-charted path and find new ways to create value. This in and of itself has been a cornerstone of my professional development and I believe I have a liberal arts foundation to thank for it.
Everything is a system with rules, paths to success, winners, and losers. Whether you're interviewing for a job, trying to change industries, or growing where you're planted, treat your environment as a "game" of sorts—learn the rules, learn the players, learn what's under your control, what's not, and what element luck and/or God plays in determining your success. The better you know how the system operates, the better you play the game, succeed, and find your personal way to glorify God in what you do.
