Fuqua School of Business

I fell in love with marketing the second semester of my senior year at Duke University.  Knowing, for the first time in my life, exactly what I wanted to do, I determined the best path was for me to work at the Fuqua School of Business where (1) I could be close to some of the best marketing professors in the world and (2) I could be close to an admissions office that could help me understand how to get into business school at a young age.  So that’s exactly what I did.  When I wasn’t doing either of the above two, I was doing my day job: managing relationships with companies in the consulting, banking, and technology spaces and trying to generate more business through existing or new clients.

what it taught me?

I wanted to lead, but I was fresh out of school.  I wanted to do marketing, but my office wasn’t doing a ton of marketing.  I had a boss who wanted fresh ideas and results.  When you combine those three things together, it produced an opportunity.  I had the chance to do what I wanted to do, as long as I generated results for my leader.  And it worked.  I was promoted within the first month I was there.  I developed processes and systems that had never been created by anyone in my job.  So what did i learn?  I learned that you can lead regardless of your title.  Leadership wasn’t about title, it was about mentality.

years.

2002-2004