Nicole

"my road has not been linear. It's been very Broad and majoring in business is results in essentially kind of figuring that out along the way."

"I buy things for my company, um, especially as it relates to software and infrastructure"

"a lot of my life is pretty much negotiating and communicating with people"

"Communication is really huge, not just verbal but email communication as well."

"I'm an internal consultant... I'm helping them solve different problems every day..."

"The biggest challenge is buying, and that goes back to the biggest skills that you need in this role, which is communication and organization."

"my role as a strategic source manager is not industry specific which makes it really fantastic because you can plug and play me anywhere."

"It's all about who you know and who trusts you and how they can get your name in different places."

"You can find success and fulfillment in something that you didn't think that you would land in."

"all of those are skill sets that then inform how you will negotiate multimillion dollar deals when you get promoted and you progress in your career."

"You will fail. It just happens. If you drop the ball, just pick it back up."

"I think that as an undergrad it's mostly the purpose is to try to figure out what you want to do and saying yes to opportunities that might not seem like they're a good fit."

"I really wake up and I really do think that there's a purpose for why I show up to work even when work is not the greatest"