Linda Lannen (Kleinfelder)

About this Episode

In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Linda talk about:

• Not having a career plan at 17, starting with community college
• The value of getting an MBA, broadening of perspective
• Looking for more 'worthy' occupations as one's career winds up
• Stints at Oscar Meyer and Jolly Rancher, bad jokes about each :)
• Moving toward technology via technical indexing and writing gigs
• Stepping up to own a Lotus Notes install when the IT director quit
• Working at Home Depot during the first dot-com bust
• Thinking she was not technical enough to be a CIO
• A day in the life of the CIO at a large corporation
• How many people want to feel their work drives something worthwhile
• The tendency of leaders to overlook reward vs discipline
• Decompression via travel and time off

You can find Linda on LinkedIn as lindalannen :)

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3