>> I went to Penn State University and I studied accounting.
I started as a divisional undergraduate student which is basically undeclared.
And I immediately moved into the college of business
because I was pretty sure that's where I was going to end up.
I started as a finance major and quickly decided that I probably wasn't cut out for that.
I took accounting, really got that for some reason and so I became an accounting major.
And eventually I came out and work for a big eight accounting firm and really disliked
that a lot and started to really worry about my career choices.
But then I took a job at a company that-- where I was an accountant and a financial analyst
at the same time so there was a lot of analysis involved as well as the reporting piece of it.
And I like that piece of it.
So I continued on in my profession sort of in that way, sort of that blended, sort of form.
And then I had an opportunity to--
a company that sort of just let me just kind of grow with them.
And I started out as a financial planner and I morphed into sort
of a business manager for a department.
And then I morphed into a director of an area of accounting and finance which I loved.
And then I just kept evolving in an operations and financial role throughout my time
at that company, which was a great growth opportunity
because it was a start up that exploded.
But through all that time and the reason I ended up in HR eventually was because every part of--
every financial job that I had, there was always somebody who needed counseling.
There's was always somebody who needed management advice.
There was always somebody that was uncomfortable having a difficult conversation
with an employee.
And I seemed to be the go to person for that every single time.
So I got very comfortable in those coaching
and employee performance conversations and from there my world evolved.