Rita Conley's profile answers

1. Having the experience that the work I'm doing is improving customer satisfaction and business success
2. Facilitating conversations such that people who didn't understand or agree with each other are left feeling understood and are aligned on a course of action
3. Creating a high-quality product or a high-efficiency process -- excellence is satisfying & fun...

I'm looking for a product management role that includes complex problem-solving, project management and lots of cross-functional team-building. I enjoy defining a product that meets customer and business needs and then ensuring that the product is delivered efficiently. I'm looking for smart, fun co-workers and a product that I can stand behind....

* Solutions that really work - not partial, ok, it'll do solutions, but solutions that actually resolve problems for everyone involved.
* Creating a world of community, contribution, & celebration.

While in college, I interviewed a leader in education reform and renewal for my honors thesis. Part way through the interview, I realized that he was interviewing me at the same time I was interviewing him. I finished my thesis and accepted a position working for him at the Institute for Educational Inquiry. The job provided excellent experience and learning, and the interview itself was a rich lesson in why it's worth meeting and talking with people whose work you respect....

Writer, clothing designer, mask-maker, community leader...

1. Remarkably smart, caring, and mature co-workers
2. The work that each of us does makes a difference to the success of the company and to our customers' success
3. It's fun to create a new & better solution to an old problem

orange bricks
huge leafy trees
people working
a long hallway
my dog's water bowl

the hillside outside
my fish tank
branding posters
cubicle walls
three phones