When I started early in the career, I really focused on just working candidly, I was working and getting my education at the same time and in regard to that depending on the student of the program it's pretty tough to do both at the same time. I took a little longer, It took me an extra year to get through my program but the key was that I was actually able to apply a lot of the things that I was learning at work. I was able to even take some of the lessons and use them with my teams I was working with. I was leading people pretty early in my career and I ended up enjoying that kind of work so I stuck, I really moved from one leadership role to another leadership role throughout my career and things that really stood out for me was that I was kind of pondering upon the questions that you'd put forth here, as I thought back on it, it was focusing on other people and honestly I have some close friends that have kind of struggled in their careers. They've asked me this question and one of the things is that we can get caught up on thinking about ourselves all the time and thinking about our current path and what's important for us, sometimes we lose sight of the influence and impact we can have on others and helping them shape their careers and grow in their career and learn new things is something I look back to and I've pondered on why I am where I am, that's probably the biggest thing. I really like building relationships and carrying out the success of those around me. The other is an agreement, so I feel like one of the key things I've done is just honored my word if I know in any role I've been in, I say I'm going to do something, I do it and it's remarkable how simple that is. It's a principle that really resonates when you're working with others and you're trying to get an outcome and the other is just being friendly and respectful. End of the day people like to work with people that they like, if you show up in a way that doesn't really demonstrate makes you not as likable, it's likely your people aren't going to be attracted to you, and they're not going to bring you along for the ride and I say that, bringing you along for the ride. Every role I've had in my life outside of one job that I've held in my life was because somebody knew me, they liked me and they wanted to work with me, if you work with me for a first-timer, you will work with me again and so that is a key factor. I'm sure they talk a lot about this in school now, but it's building a good network and I would say building It was not so much the breath as much as it was of a relationship, that helped me get where I was, but It has definitely not been like, I made a decision, I was going to become the vice president of author and Conference acquisition of the PluralSight and so I've looked for the opportunities while at the same time delivering the outcomes in whatever role I've been in. I've tried to do it at my very best and not get distracted by the role I wanted to be in or I was striving for, I just continue and try to deliver and those opportunities came to me because people appreciated what I was doing. So I think that's a lot of what got me where I am today.

It is just a kind of vision casting for my organization like where are we going? what does the future look like? what future are we trying to create etc and having the opportunity to cast that vision, obviously in line with the larger goals of the company. I'm going off with the vision set forth by our CEO and the executive team, I take that vision and I cast a different vision for my team based on what we're chartered to do inside of the business. Some of that includes decisions like figuring out the processes and procedures that we are going to follow to recruit new authors into our community It's about some process and the other is obviously the goals, there are quarterly objectives, there are key results that we're managing through and so it's really working with teams to decide on "Hey looks like if this is our vision this is where we're headed, what are the things we have to do to break it down." we know breaking it down into small steps with regard to looking what we need to do today in order to get to the vision at the end of the year or the end of two years and so I really worked with my teams to help shape what that's going to look like. Part of it is really figuring out and I didn't give a lot of background on the role that I'm in but I worked with a massive global community of experts we partner with to build content. If you're familiar with PluralSight.com you would know that we build video content and other learning materials and so it's really about going and building that community, keeping that community happy on continuing to create value a really meaningful value proposition for them so that we can continue our business needs. These are the things I spent a lot of time on I'd say the core of that. If you think about decisions or responsibilities is just me making sure that people here inside of my organization are clearly understanding what it means to succeed and then trying to establish and create an environment where any of them can succeed, as they put forth their dinner and show their desire with regards to working hours. For me the last I'd say was 22 years ago, It was long hours like I've always put in long hours maybe like 60 hours, 50 to 60 hours a week, and I just kind of did that consistently throughout my career and it was kind of funny because about a year and 1/2 ago, I had a life coach that I was meeting with, he called me and said like "Well, you know your place in your career? does it still make sense to be putting in these types of hours?" and I really evaluated what I was doing and how much time I was dedicating to work versus other important priorities in my life. I dialed it back and I've been working 40 hours and I'm happy about it, that's been something I've was able to accomplish but it's taken me long, I'd say two things take me a long time to get here, I feel like I've had to put in long hours and in the role that I'm in but then I've also learned a lot about the work most effectively, how to say no, what things I should be prioritizing, how to measure the impact of the work that I'm doing and things I'm going to take on or not. I've never made it a practice to work from home ever, as long as I have had an office, I've been in the office having said that, for my entire organization, I give everybody the opportunity to work two days a week from home and a lot of people obviously take me up on that. They like that opportunity to work from home and so we try to stay flexible knowing that people are commuting from all over the front and we want to make it work so that it works for them and their families and their lives.

I've been here for about seven years and it's the mission that I love about my job it's like I'm working for a company that is mission-driven and have a meaningful purpose around democratizing technology skills and I love that. It feels good to like to know the work I'm doing and another work I do with my authors, the work that we do with creating content, educational content on technical topics like engineering and data, science and all that is helping people and I know that there are hundreds of thousands of individuals around the globe who are using this content that I've worked with these experts. They're using it to change their lives to improve their careers and I don't know every story out there of individuals who have leveraged it, but it's like they're probably creating software of their own or tooling of their own, that's changing the lives of others as well, that's probably the thing I love most about being at PluralSight we really do have a meaningful mission. We have a culture that really encourages learning and growth for the individual. I enjoy working with people that I like and the fact that I've had the opportunity to build my team over. For instance, when I came here I wasn't planning on why I started here at PluralSight I was actually on the senior executive team and I wasn't planning on taking a company public so that was a pretty awesome experience and has opened up other unique opportunities for me individually I didn't know we're going to go public with IPO that helped build the company up and initial offering we got was around $4 billion so it's exciting and unexpected, but something that was a ton of fun to be part of.