trust and collaboration

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I have worked in grocery stores, waterfronts, rivers, coffee shops, funded startups, bootstrapped startups, interactive agencies, publicly traded companies with sales of $4B, in the government sector working on citizen experience for the State of Oklahoma, and leading digital at one of the largest privately held banks in the nation.

All along my career journey I have had the privilege of working with amazing people dedicated to their particular craft. The jobs that were the most fulfilling were ones in which trust and collaboration were staples of the day-to-day business of doing business.

As as stockboy in the grocery store, we worked in tandem with our teammates to ensure every piece of inventory that could fit was out on the floor, so our customer could purchase what they needed and our managers could track inventory for next order.

As a waterfront coordinator at an outdoor camp, we trained our river rafting guides and our lifeguards to watch over the customers like they were family, then had to trust they would do so each and every moment on the water.

As a member of a small startup team, trust and collaboration kept us afloat and drove us to each and every milestone on our roadmap. There was more work than we all could do in a day and we had to…