At November’s pdxMindShare event, Terry St. Marie, also known as Starbucker, shared his professional experience and his passion for great leadership. Having grown up in a blue collar home, he worked hard to get through school and eventually became a CPA. He was, at a pretty young age, hand picked to take a seat in a corner office where he gave himself the name “Spreadsheet Assassin.” Having helped the company he worked for then maximize profits each year through laying off and firing employees more often than he liked, he decided to make some changes for how he continued on his professional journey. He sat down and made a list, something he encourages everyone to do, of what he wanted his career to look like. He made the necessary changes and went on to become a great leader, by following values that we important to him, with exceptional profits and great employee and customer satisfaction.
You can read more about his journey and his principles for leadership in his presentation below.
pdxMindShare is taking a break for the holidays, but be sure to join us at the Holiday Networking Party we are co-hosting with SEMpdx, Social Media Club and AMA at 5:30PM on Thursday, December 11th at the Spirit of 77 in NE Portland, and we hope to see everyone when we reconvene at Trader Vic’s for our first event of 2015 on Wednesday, January 21st. Jane Boutwell, a Communications Coach, will present the career-focused workshop and explore the “Why You” and how to effectively answer that question when asked.
