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#### My three goals for 2017

​1. Accumulate sufficient professional development experience and study time to sit for the May 2018 CAE exam

​2. Navigate the transition in leadership as my organization’s executive director retires

​3. Read more of everything

#### On my desk right now

Coffee, meeting logistics for the upcoming SIOP Annual Conference, a draft of partnership offerings for our fall event, pictures of my family, a sad-looking plant

#### What I do when I’m not at work

Team up with my amazing husband to care for our four children, exercise, work some more (even though I shouldn’t), collapse into bed at night, and say a prayer to have the privilege to do it all over again tomorrow.

#### The best advice I ever got

Resist the urge to throw solutions at a problem. Instead, spend that time digging in to find the root cause and address that rather than the surface issues.

#### If I weren’t doing this, I’d …

… indulge my lifelong obsession with Walt Disney World and just work there.

#### My media mix

NPR, Hidden Brain, TED Talks, New York Times, and Associations Now, of course!

(Scott Stewart)

[ASAE Staff](https://associationsnow.com/author/asae-staff/)

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