Colleen Goggins named to Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women
Why is the important and why would I reference this link?
1) Colleen is on the Board of Directors for the Center for Brand and Product Management. She is very involved with the Center and has been an instrumental individual in helping grow the Center to where it is today. She brought the Johnson & Johnson/Pfizer integration team to campus and guided us through our first applied learning session.
2) She took me and the first year class to dinner. That should actually be #1. Anybody that wants to take us to dinner should get top billing. It is a little surreal to read an article like the one in Fortune and realize that only two weeks ago, I had a conversation with her about J&J and her plans for helping grow the business further. Needless to say, in my previous job, I wasn’t having dinner with these type of people, let alone coffee, a short elevator ride, or even an innocent glance on the street.
3) And finally, she is just a really nice individual. I was amazed at how down-to-earth and approachable she was. She kindly answered all of our questions and treated each person like he/she was the most important person in the room at that moment.
On Wisconsin!
Why is the important and why would I reference this link?
1) Colleen is on the Board of Directors for the Center for Brand and Product Management. She is very involved with the Center and has been an instrumental individual in helping grow the Center to where it is today. She brought the Johnson & Johnson/Pfizer integration team to campus and guided us through our first applied learning session.
2) She took me and the first year class to dinner. That should actually be #1. Anybody that wants to take us to dinner should get top billing. It is a little surreal to read an article like the one in Fortune and realize that only two weeks ago, I had a conversation with her about J&J and her plans for helping grow the business further. Needless to say, in my previous job, I wasn’t having dinner with these type of people, let alone coffee, a short elevator ride, or even an innocent glance on the street.
3) And finally, she is just a really nice individual. I was amazed at how down-to-earth and approachable she was. She kindly answered all of our questions and treated each person like he/she was the most important person in the room at that moment.
On Wisconsin!
posted by Kyle Gore @ 11:46 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
Congrats to Colleen! Her presentation to the general MBA body was incredible, and it was great to hear her talk to our group more intimately as well.
We're lucky to have her as part of the center!
Greg
Exactly.
The degree to which Colleen and J&J substantively engage with our program is amazing. Their program last year on design strategy and this year on approach to M&A integration top the charts in terms of our Friday 'Applied Learnings.'
Congrats are certainly in order!
As a career switcher, I was blown away by the visit from Colleen and her team.
1. Where else do you get to hang out with an industry leader like her?
2. Learning about the challenges of a huge Acquisition like Pfizer was awesome. I have the notes for when I get to do one.....
Colleen first participated in the M. Keith Weikel speaker series for all MBA students, then took the first year brand students out to dinner with a few of her colleagues (where she served us appetizers!) and then was back the following morning to discuss the Pfizer M&A with the entire brand center. It was an amazing experience and all the much cooler that she and her colleagues were down-to-earth and extremely approachable. FUN!
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