And when I told her where I was going, she was very supportive and told me it was a good fit and wished me well
During her remaining six weeks at the bank, Nancy put together a detailed spreadsheet of all her accounts and went over this information in several meetings with her boss. “I wanted to be a team member until the very end,” she says.
She is also the youngest African American female to ever launch a line with Sephora, the cosmetics chain. “Even though what I do now is very different from my old job in finance, I use a lot of what I learned there in my day-to-day – how to be strategic, how to see a project through from start to finish, and how to communicate. “It was the right grateful to have worked there.”
Case study #2: Be open about your plans When it was time for Ben Sullivan* to give his notice, he felt a mixture of giddy excitement and guilty dread.