All About Me

Who Am I?

Let me tell you a story.  In each and every one of my roles, regardless of title, rank, or industry, I have always been the person that the business comes to when they have a project or task that they need done but they don’t know who should do it. (Or the person they have asked to do it has told them “I don’t have time.” Or “This is not really something I should do.”)  For a long time I thought this was ridiculous misuse of my time and my skills.   Then one day, randomly, I realized that I’m actually really good at the “necessary but nobody’s job” projects and maybe, just maybe, I should embrace this.  My innate curiosity to understand enough about the business and different business unit needs, my expert organizational skills, my desire to completely understand the honest goal for the project, combined with my weird ability to not be affected by the “expert ego”(You know what I’m talking about.) combined give me the unofficial title of “non-expert” or Jack (Jill) of all trades.  Not really good for a resume, at all,  but pretty amazing for me to know I can literally do things other people cant.

Like an “expert” but not myopic, singularly focused… a “non-expert”.  I have struggled with this denotation because it sounds sooo negative.  NON-expert. But I have also struggled with calling myself an “expert” because I don’t want to be thought of the same way people think about the “experts” they know.  I am not a blow hard. I do not proclaim to know everything. I’m eager to learn as much as possible even if I already have knowledge of whatever it is.  I will get my hands dirty and actually do work. I won’t spend time critiquing you without giving you honest feedback and solutions. I won’t waste your time with hypotheticals and should-dos. My ultimate goal is to help you and your organization, not to hear myself speak. These are just some things that experts do.  It’s not a bad thing at all.  Experts totally know their stuff! It’s just, sometimes, not as helpful as we all want it to be.

All that was a long-winded way of telling you why I started Segovia Consulting.  There is so much gray area in business, so many projects that are “necessary but nobody’s job”, so many critical business decisions made without complete and comprehensive overviews of the business using separate (but never combined) intelligence from business units.  And there are very few people, experts, consultants, employees, that are comfortable in the gray area or working cross-functionally.  (Don’t believe me?   Use the Google machine and type in a search for “consultants” and see how specific they are.). I am comfortable in the gray area. Actually, I prefer it here.  I am passionate about having concise and consumable information for all audiences.  I don’t mind the little tasks (like making worksheets to track things) so that the bigger goal of automation or integration or acquisition can occur.  I know that there is magic in the gray area and I want to help you see it too!

If you actually read that entire thing, thank you!  If you read it and think you could use my help, contact me today or connect with me on LinkedIn!