![]() ![]() There are several reasons I felt I needed to share this story. The next few years are going to be challenging, but I’m looking forward to the new friends I'll make around the world and the opportunities we will have to collaborate and learn from one another. Best of all, the new job would allow me to move with my wife to Panama. Where beforehand I was a US based asset, I would now become a global resource. They not only found me a new global position within the firm, but I would be tasked with continuing my personal mission to champion visual storytelling and data visualization throughout PwC. Within a few days Amy and Jack returned with amazing news. As far as Jack was concerned HeForShe should not only be a commitment extended to PwC employees, but also their families. During one call Jack expressed his frustration since PwC has been working towards achieving gender equality in the workplace through supporting the UN Women's HeForShe initiative. Amy and Jack were powerless to give me a job, but they assured me that they weren’t done fighting on my behalf. I just couldn’t ask my wife to turn down her offer, so I told her to accept the position and took a leap of faith that everything would work out. While PwC is a global firm I was simply ineligible for any jobs in Central America. We were faced with a true ‘Gift of the Magi’ predicament. Either my wife or I would have to sacrifice one of our careers for the sake of the other, or we’d spend the next three years living apart. I quickly reached out to Amy and Jack and we discovered there was simply no way I could remain working for the US firm while living abroad. The bad news was that my wife’s potential new job was actually 2,000 miles due South in Central America. The job was only 2,000 miles away from our home in Washington DC and the good news was that my current role provided me the luxury of working anywhere I wanted in the US. It was the type of offer she couldn’t turn down, and if she did her professional career might grind to a halt. It was my wife calling to tell me that she had just received an email offering her an amazing new position. I had just finished my first presentation for the Digital Accelerators and I was hopped up on a combination of anxiety and adrenaline. ![]() ![]() Several weeks passed and my cell phone rang. ![]() Things felt like they were turning around. A few months later I was asked to develop and deliver a course of Data Driven Visual Storytelling to 1,000+ PwC professionals as part of our Digital Accelerator upskilling efforts, and finally in July I was promoted to Senior Manager. There were countless nights and weekends spent taking on ‘side gigs’ to help my colleagues hard work look better, 18 months of grad school studying information visualization while working full time within Advisory Services and then there were the countless conversations where she reassured me while I panicked about the relative lackluster ROI my efforts seemed to garner.Īll that hard work started to pay off when Amy Kunz and Jack Teuber offered me a chance to join the US Creative team in January as the first Visual Strategist within PwC’s Creative Delivery Team. Please forgive my lack of brevity this morning, I have a story to tell.įor the last five years my amazing wife has supported me as I pursued my professional passions at PwC. ![]()
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