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Emily Cates

Sep 2, 2026

1:55
How did you find your way into this really interesting organization and also specifically in this area of go-to-market and transformation?
2:05
Yeah, my career started in a number of early stage startup companies.
2:09
I actually began my career as a human resources professional with every aspiration in the world to become a chief human resource officer one day.
2:17
And in working in these early stage startups, you wear so many different hats, right? You really just do the function that you think that you're doing.
2:25
And So it gave me really great exposure to a variety of different functional areas.
2:30
And I had always been told every career mentor had always said, Emily, one of the best things that you can do at some point, if you want to be a chief human resource officer, is to go and work in the business.
2:41
So I always had it in my mind that one day I was going to go and work in the business and then maybe return back into HR.

30 MINS LATER

32:38
And I think that's often a time when actually at a leadership level, an enterprise level, it's easy to get misaligned.

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