Kathy Greenier’s New Adventure
We dug deep into the Floricane Photo Archives to find our very first team photo featuring Kathy Greenier -- and Julie, and Lesley, and Debra, and John! (Get a glimpse into who Kathy was way back in 2015 here.) Unfortunately, our last "team photo" of Kathy looked more like Hollywood Squares thanks to unfortunate marriage of Covid and Zoom.
Last week, we said goodbye to Kathy, who worked as a consultant and practice manager for Floricane for the past five years. Late last fall, she somehow backed her way into the dream job she didn't know she was looking for -- on January 18, she joins the University of Richmond School of Law as Director of Career Development for Emerging Careers.
We're going to miss her!
John met Kathy late in the summer of 2015 when she attended Floricane's fledgling Manager Development Program. (Thanks for sending her, Claire!) As the program wrapped up, John mentioned that Floricane was looking for a new consultant focused on Insights®. A month later, Kathy was our new consultant focused on Insights®.
Thank goodness for Insights®! Our favorite self-awareness tool gave Kathy and the rest of our team the language we needed when her Blue/Yellow creative style collided with John's Green/Red creative style. It wasn't all collision, though! Far from it. Kathy's approach to work was flexible, and often paired well with our team -- creating space for good collaborative work, and creating space for other voices. Her strong orientation to building lasting business solutions for Floricane, and our clients, is a key part of her legacy.
If you worked with Kathy over the years, you've probably been inspired by her commitment and professionalism, her care for individuals and teams, and her integrity. As might be expected, the triple pandemics of 2020 created moments where Kathy's best self helped Floricane adapt to Covid and its economic fallout. We're fortunate in so many ways to have had her creativity, personality, and talent in our corner for so long.
And we're going to miss her, even though she's only one Zoom meeting away.