Women in OR/MS Networking Breakfast
From Doing to Leading
Join us on Tuesday, from 7-8am for breakfast, networking, and knowledge sharing. Throughout our careers we transition from project to project, role to role, and individual contributor to leader (and maybe back again). These transitions aren’t always seamless, and we’re often weighed down with things we can’t let go of, for whatever reason. We’ll learn from each other about what’s worked and what hasn’t and leave with new connections and ideas.
Emmy Smith
Emmy Smith is a highly effective leader with 15+ years of experience leveraging her strengths to build teams that use analytics to power data-driven decision making that delivers business results. She exercises the ability to see around corners to assess and mitigate risk while being a catalyst for change. She places a deliberate focus on attracting and retaining diverse talent and building a team culture founded on emotional intelligence, collaboration, and mentorship. She spent time in finance and telecommunications before moving to the tech industry. Currently, Emmy leads a team of analytics professionals at Amazon Web Services. With a passion for developing others, she routinely volunteers as a mentor and coach for organizations like Built by Girls and the Tri Sigma Foundation. Beginning with BS degrees in math and physics, she launched her career path with a MS in Statistics from the University of South Carolina and accelerated it with a MBA from Western Governors University. She’s always happy to connect with others looking to succeed in analytics careers. You can find her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmy-smith/.
