00:15:26 Alison Cardy: It was so ideal, not something I even thought was possible as a job. 00:16:41 Alison Cardy: I knew that leaving meant giving up my career. I just saw how the legal system responds to employees. 00:16:47 Alison Cardy: There has to be a better solution. 00:17:45 Alison Cardy: I felt so humiliated to even have the problem. 00:19:58 Alison Cardy: Our relationship 100% changed. 00:20:18 Alison Cardy: I was really able to own my power and influence. 00:22:28 Alison Cardy: I had to be willing to get fired and not quit ahead of time. I see so many people quit ahead of time. I believe all these experiences can be resolved. 00:22:59 Alison Cardy: You see them think that the only option is to leave. 00:25:49 Alison Cardy: My purpose in life is to end oppression. 00:25:51 STEM Career Services: My purpose is life is to end oppression. It starts with us 00:26:23 STEM Career Services: she had to stop discriminating against herself and feel she deserved less than a man 00:27:57 Alison Cardy: I had to go through that to know what I know now. 00:30:46 Alison Cardy: CK: 00:30:48 meredithholley: Every place I go is my favorite because the present is the best place to live. 00:31:57 meredithholley: Everybody inside has something that is stronger. You need to go inside and not look for appreciation from outside. 00:32:29 Alison Cardy: I started realizing there was good everywhere. 00:32:47 meredithholley: In every situation that was trying to bring you down, there was a reason. There is good in everything. 00:33:52 STEM Career Services: I started changing things and that’s how I became an agent of change 00:35:06 STEM Career Services: if you turn it around, you have a huge future in this organization 00:35:40 meredithholley: I got the worst employees, and six months down the line my department was rated the best department. 00:36:15 Alison Cardy: There is some part of neglect there in every individual. 00:36:16 meredithholley: There is some part of neglect that is in every individual. 00:36:51 STEM Career Services: there are capabilities in every indidvual, only they have not been aligned in a particular direction. Their hidden strengths are not being focused in the right direction 00:38:13 meredithholley: There are managers who love to manage and people who don’t need to be managed. 00:38:22 STEM Career Services: there are people who don’t need to be managed. they already know what they have to do 00:38:30 Alison Cardy: Vision and purpose and identification of those hidden strengths is missing. People already know what to do. 00:38:36 Alison Cardy: What can we do? 00:39:11 Alison Cardy: We were born intelligent. 00:40:55 meredithholley: Before if I said something wasn’t working, I would be judged. 00:41:42 Alison Cardy: Money is not what gives you happiness. 00:41:54 Alison Cardy: The purpose is helping people, developing people. 00:41:57 meredithholley: What gives purpose is loving people and helping people grow. 00:42:08 STEM Career Services: 3 time multimillionaire and 3 time bankruptcy. in 17 start ups. 00:44:14 STEM Career Services: its all about people development 00:47:20 Alison Cardy: I was identified as an emerging rugby player. 00:47:58 Alison Cardy: I wanted to learn how to be a better athlete. 00:49:20 Alison Cardy: I felt like the village idiot. I was the first one in my class to graduate because I hated it so much I wanted to get out of there. 00:49:43 Alison Cardy: That was my escape from academia. 00:50:40 Alison Cardy: I saw how the sausage was made. 00:51:06 Alison Cardy: I was hiring a lot of people and growing teams. These people were completely unprepared to show their value to the employer. 00:51:09 meredithholley: What I realized fairly early on was that these people were totally unprepared to show an employer what they could bring to my organization. 00:51:27 Alison Cardy: I'm a business man who happened to get a science degree. 00:51:27 meredithholley: I always felt like I’m a businessman who happened to get a science degree. 00:52:36 meredithholley: I really understand what my clients have gone through, and now I’m the hiring manager. 00:53:43 Alison Cardy: Most people's advisors are entrenched in academia. 00:54:00 meredithholley: Lack of knowledge of what is available is one problem. 00:54:17 meredithholley: People are so judged on technical skills, but so many soft skills are vital. 00:54:47 Alison Cardy: People don't usually understand what skills they have. They're so focused on their technical skills. They don't recognize they're valuable and needed. Their confidence just skyrockets. 00:54:57 CK Taneja: Make people understand what skills they have and what they are... build their confidence