Fairygodboss Of The Week Laura Peterson

Fairygodboss Of The Week Laura Peterson Laura Peterson is a model of diligence, fearlessness and initiative. She has ascended to the most elevated positions to turn into a Managing Director at Accenture, and she tries supporting ladies all through the organization and helping them rise. Laura has a positive vitality that is simply infectious. We are fortunate to have her an individual from the Fairygodboss Advisory Board, and an individual from our work tribe.Fairygodboss of the Week: Laura PetersonManaging Director, AccentureNew York, NYFGB: Tell us about your vocation. How could you get to where you are presently? LP: I went to the University of Colorado Boulder and considered Marketing, International Business and Economics. In spite of my majors, I had no clue about what I needed to do, yet I thought Consulting looked intriguing, so I sought after it. Who might have realized that 16 years after the fact Id be at Accenture, driving customers through enormous scope programs that are changing their organizations. Ive had t he chance to take on an assortment of jobs and thinking back I never thought Id land in deals, however I think that its energizing. It ended up being an incredible fit with my skills.Ive burned through the majority of my profession out and about, however following quite a while of going for work, I was floating towards needing to invest energy with customers over a more extended term in one spot, as opposed to seeking after the fervor of taking on new activities in various areas. I was feeling a feeling of fleetingness, similar to my life was in a bag. Furthermore, my child felt it as well. So I worked with Accenture to investigate chances to move into another job driving customer accounts, which would permit me to travel less. I wound up finding such a job, however there was a trick: my customers would be in New York City, not Denver, so we would need to move. What's more, we did. Quick forward and Im driving Accentures associations with two or three NYC based customers and, above all, Im in one spot with my family. FGB: What is an achievement that you are glad of?LP: Ive sought after an unpredictable way all through my profession with Accenture, taking on jobs outside of Consulting in BPO, Operations, Sales, beginning once again with new authority groups and partners as often as possible. I understand my excursion is whimsical, yet my way empowered me to propel my vocation, yet to find out such a great amount about our business, our customers and myself. FGB: What is a test that youve confronted and overcome?LP: Moving to New York and taking on another job inside Accenture around two years prior which, to me, wanted to begin once again. It was an incredible open door for me to roll out an improvement, yet additionally a gigantic test. Moving by then in my profession and individual life was extremely startling remaking a system, a command post, finding another emotionally supportive network, all highly involved with learning another job and new group was unfa thomably troublesome. I had stunning individuals around me who I knew were in my corner, yet the hardest part was confiding in myself to be sufficient to do it and being benevolent to myself when things werent great. Lightning Round:FGB: What do you do when youre not working?LP: Either hanging with my extremely fun child, meandering the areas of NYC, or Im on a plane to Heathrow, on the way to see my fianc and great prospective stepdaughter who live in England. FGB: If you could eat with one well known individual - in any condition - who might it be?LP: Margaret Thatcher. What she accomplished for the time in which she lived is astonishing. Id love to hear her accounts. FGB: What is your karaoke song?LP: Alive by Pearl Jam.FGB: What is your most loved movie?LP: The Holiday, with Cameron Diaz and Jude Law.FGB: What book would you carry with you on a desert island?LP: The Edge by Dick FrancisFGB: What is your shopping bad habit? What might you purchase on the off chance that you won t he lottery?LP: Amazon Prime for everything. Be that as it may, new baggage will in general be a thing for me. Im consistently on the mission for the ideal PC sack. In the event that I win the lottery, Ill purchase a country estate in Mallorca. My fianc and I both love the island. It would be some place exceptional to go with our children and meet up as a family. FGB: Who is your Fairygodboss?LP: One of my best lady friends, Amy Stuart. Shes had my back genuinely since our senior year of school. Shes my greatest team promoter, consistently has a motivational speech prepared and has dropped everything to travel to New York when I truly required some help. She claims her own business, is associated with the network and brings up three children while as yet seeing time as her I am in awe.FGB: What is the #1 vocation tip you'd prefer to share? LP: Find your work family, your clan of the two ladies and men who get you, make you chuckle and draw out the best in you. We as a whole invest su ch a great amount of energy at work, so these are the individuals who not just make life progressively fun, they assist you with being you and consistently have your back. This family will be there with you at three toward the beginning of the day, rescuing water of the vessel when it begins spilling (which it will at some point). Fairygodboss is about ladies helping other ladies - so every week, we praise a lady who had any kind of effect in another womans profession. Is there a lady who has had any kind of effect in your career?Celebrate her and express gratitude toward her by selecting her here.