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Lucas Tesoriero recently went back to being a student. He began taking private language lessons, an interest rooted in his Italian heritage and a lifelong appreciation for the language and culture that came with it. Anyone who has tried to learn a new language knows the process rewards patience, steady practice and a willingness to […]

Lawrence Glick can pinpoint the moment his initial career plan fell apart. He was a freshman engineering student at the University of Colorado Boulder, staring down a problem set, when it hit him that his high school vision of designing aircraft was not his path forward. He still loved math and science, so he pivoted […]

On a quiet stretch of coastline in Bonita Springs, a marina opened its docks for the first time just days before this interview took place. For Lisa Van Dien, general counsel and vice president of London Bay, the moment marked something much larger. She remembers standing on land that was once a 30-acre raw, undeveloped […]

Marjorie Adams was still a kid in a small industrial Ohio town when she watched the factories start to close, one after another, and the families around her absorb the shock. She didn’t have the language for it then, but what she was watching, she’d later realize, was the human cost of work disappearing — […]

When Janice Baker was in second or third grade, she already knew she wanted to be a lawyer. Her only other dream job was waitressing at Pizza Hut, and it didn’t stand much of a chance against the courtroom drama of L.A. Law. That early certainty held, although her path looked nothing like the television […]

On a Tuesday morning not long ago, Meredith Ritchie sat down with her legal and audit teams to review quarterly results unrelated to case files or compliance filings. The number in front of them was an employee engagement score, and it was the highest in the entire organization. For a group of lawyers and auditors, […]

From a boardroom window at Winnipeg Airports Authority, Andrew Stewart can see a finished cargo hangar rising against the prairie sky, a building he helped bring into existence through months of negotiations, risk assessments and regulatory approvals long before the first steel beam went up. Further west across the runway, he can see the initial […]

Ask Aneeka Sandher what makes a bag worth carrying, and she will not start with price or brand. She starts with the pull on the zipper, the stitching along a seam, the small mechanical details most people never notice but that she has trained herself to spot instantly. She didn’t pick up this skill in […]

When a big deal closes at Peakhill Capital, someone rings a bell. The sound carries through the office, and everyone knows the company has taken another step forward. For Brady McLeod, general counsel and chief compliance officer, that bell has become one of the understated perks of working at a company built for momentum. At […]

In a Brigham Young University lecture hall, a theater student who could recite Shakespeare more comfortably than he could balance an equation sat waiting to hear from a weekly lecture from practicing attorneys. He expected talk of courtrooms and closing arguments, the kind of legal drama that first drew him toward the profession. Instead, one […]