Growth + Alignment = Excellence | Excellence + Opportunity = Promotion A colleague asked me a question a while back: "How did you do it? How did you get to where you are? It seems so effortless for you." This was someone I first met in college, and a lot has changed since then. Let me be clear: excellence is anything but effortless. I’m grateful for my professional progress - the successes, the challenges and the lessons learned - but I still have plenty of growing to do. In