Jennifer Anderson

About this episode

She picked her college major because she was good at it, not because she knew where it would lead. Jennifer Anderson wasn't sure what she wanted to do when she started college, so she leaned into math, the subject that came easiest. It led her to a top consulting firm, where she wrote code for mainframe systems. She was good at it but found the work so boring that her interest shifted to optimization and process improvement. That work fit naturally with her industrial engineering background. She moved into a business analyst role, and it was there she realized what she actually cared about wasn't the process at all. It was the people trying to work through the change. That instinct…