How Has Success Changed You?
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Lara Warner Head of IB Finance Success has made me become more aware of this paradox: to remain happy you must be open to the randomness of life and work, and remain flexible in meeting their demands, while at the same time exercising control so that neither permanently gets out of balance. My advice to younger women: spend as much time telling yourself that you can accomplish great things as you spend doubting yourself.
How Has Success Changed You? Climbing up the career ladder has its perks and quirks. Eight top business women in the US, including five award winners, share how success has influenced their lives. Credit Suisse Americas Adapted by Angela Harp Photography: Steffen Thalemann, Tobias Mitch, Cortis and Sonderegger
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Dagny Maidman*, San Francisco Relationship Manager, PB Americas Being named a Barron’s Top Advisor is a wonderful compliment, but it’s not what makes me feel successful. I judge my success by how I develop investment strategies for clients, and how these strategies perform. I feel success has humbled me, but also emboldened me. I’m humbled knowing that luck is a big part of it; emboldened in that success and outside recognition enhance my self-confidence and boost my effectiveness as a sales person.
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Kelly Williams**, New York Co-Head of AM Customized Fund Investment Group Success has made me both more open and wary. I enjoy speaking publicly, particularly at events that focus on opportunities for women in financial services. In the private equity industry, women in senior positions are rare, so I feel it’s important to join the discussion on how to change this. However, I have to be wary – when you lead a group responsible for USD 26 billion of capital, it’s surprising how many people want to be your friend!
Nicole Primack*, New York Relationship Manager, PB Americas Sonia Attkiss*, New York Relationship Manager, PB Americas I played a game of Monopoly with my 10-year-old son the other day. Before we started, he said: “I know you’re going to win because you’re a banker. But I want to play anyway because I know you’ll teach me.” It was a simple expression of trust and appreciation, but it made my eyes tear. It was a reminder that the standard measures of career success are less important than nurturing personal relationships and making an impact on those closest to us.
In my last year of high school, I was asked to submit a quote to accompany my photo for the yearbook. At the ripe old age of 18, I cited: “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” 25 years later, I still find that small statement to be true. We must achieve a balance in life that makes everything come together. Work hard, work smart and ask questions. Never allow your surroundings to intimidate you or hold you back.
Elaine Meyers*, San Francisco Relationship Manager, PB Americas Heather Vanderhoof, New York COO PB USA, New York My parents have nine children, seven of us are female. I grew up knowing girls can do anything boys can (except take out the trash and cut the lawn, my mom’s rule which I appreciated). With that grounding, I’ve simply worked hard and never really thought to do things differently because I’m a woman. Success and others’ confidence in me have allowed me to try different things. My advice to you: figure out what you enjoy doing and do it.
I measure success differently to most. I judge it on a scale of happiness in my life as a whole, not on any production level or ranking. As such, the growth of my business and team has afforded me the opportunity to dedicate increasingly more time to my family. As a working mother of four, this flexibility is very important to me. I would advise aspiring women to view my accomplishments as a testament to the effectiveness of hard work and perseverance.
Colleen Graham, New York Chief of Staff, PB Americas Critical to success is diligence, an open mind, and thoughtful and direct communication. Equally important is the ability to admit what you don’t know and to engage and retain a team who can fill in the gaps and provide diversity of thought. Success to me is based on professional and personal fulfillment. With a job that I love and four amazing young children, I feel successful.
* Barron’s Top 100 Advisors, 2010 ** Robert Toigo Foundation, “Leading by Example” Award, 2010 one 4.10
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Lara Warner Head of IB Finance Success has made me become more aware of this paradox: to remain happy you must be open to the randomness of life and work, and remain flexible in meeting their demands, while at the same time exercising control so that neither permanently gets out of balance. My advice to younger women: spend as much time telling yourself that you can accomplish great things as you spend doubting yourself.
How Has Success Changed You? Climbing up the career ladder has its perks and quirks. Eight top business women in the US, including five award winners, share how success has influenced their lives. Credit Suisse Americas Adapted by Angela Harp Photography: Steffen Thalemann, Tobias Mitch, Cortis and Sonderegger
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Dagny Maidman*, San Francisco Relationship Manager, PB Americas Being named a Barron’s Top Advisor is a wonderful compliment, but it’s not what makes me feel successful. I judge my success by how I develop investment strategies for clients, and how these strategies perform. I feel success has humbled me, but also emboldened me. I’m humbled knowing that luck is a big part of it; emboldened in that success and outside recognition enhance my self-confidence and boost my effectiveness as a sales person.
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Kelly Williams**, New York Co-Head of AM Customized Fund Investment Group Success has made me both more open and wary. I enjoy speaking publicly, particularly at events that focus on opportunities for women in financial services. In the private equity industry, women in senior positions are rare, so I feel it’s important to join the discussion on how to change this. However, I have to be wary – when you lead a group responsible for USD 26 billion of capital, it’s surprising how many people want to be your friend!
Nicole Primack*, New York Relationship Manager, PB Americas Sonia Attkiss*, New York Relationship Manager, PB Americas I played a game of Monopoly with my 10-year-old son the other day. Before we started, he said: “I know you’re going to win because you’re a banker. But I want to play anyway because I know you’ll teach me.” It was a simple expression of trust and appreciation, but it made my eyes tear. It was a reminder that the standard measures of career success are less important than nurturing personal relationships and making an impact on those closest to us.
In my last year of high school, I was asked to submit a quote to accompany my photo for the yearbook. At the ripe old age of 18, I cited: “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” 25 years later, I still find that small statement to be true. We must achieve a balance in life that makes everything come together. Work hard, work smart and ask questions. Never allow your surroundings to intimidate you or hold you back.
Elaine Meyers*, San Francisco Relationship Manager, PB Americas Heather Vanderhoof, New York COO PB USA, New York My parents have nine children, seven of us are female. I grew up knowing girls can do anything boys can (except take out the trash and cut the lawn, my mom’s rule which I appreciated). With that grounding, I’ve simply worked hard and never really thought to do things differently because I’m a woman. Success and others’ confidence in me have allowed me to try different things. My advice to you: figure out what you enjoy doing and do it.
I measure success differently to most. I judge it on a scale of happiness in my life as a whole, not on any production level or ranking. As such, the growth of my business and team has afforded me the opportunity to dedicate increasingly more time to my family. As a working mother of four, this flexibility is very important to me. I would advise aspiring women to view my accomplishments as a testament to the effectiveness of hard work and perseverance.
Colleen Graham, New York Chief of Staff, PB Americas Critical to success is diligence, an open mind, and thoughtful and direct communication. Equally important is the ability to admit what you don’t know and to engage and retain a team who can fill in the gaps and provide diversity of thought. Success to me is based on professional and personal fulfillment. With a job that I love and four amazing young children, I feel successful.
* Barron’s Top 100 Advisors, 2010 ** Robert Toigo Foundation, “Leading by Example” Award, 2010 one 4.10
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