{"id":2602,"date":"2022-10-04T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/careerplanning.me.holycross.edu\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2022-10-04T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:34:39","slug":"meet-alumna-cynthia-white-95-president-at-ceatro-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/2022\/10\/04\/meet-alumna-cynthia-white-95-president-at-ceatro-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Alumna Cynthia White &#8217;95, President at Ceatro Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/10\/1618795824170.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2603\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/10\/1618795824170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Name: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cynthia White<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Class Year: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1995<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Title: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Organization Name: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ceatro Group<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>1. In one sentence, what does your job entail? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Founding, managing, and growing a consulting and research firm that helps organizations design better experiences and deliver more and different value to the humans that matter to them \u2013 customers, employees, suppliers, etc.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>2. What planned and unplanned events connected you to your industry and your first employer after Holy Cross? How did you learn\/decide it was a good fit for you?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immediately after Holy Cross, I was a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, West Africa \u2013 which was amazing. When I hit the job market a year later, it was a recruiting firm who introduced me to the idea of going into business at an intellectual technology company that was looking for unique candidates. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Add in a very helpful Holy Cross alum in that company\u2019s HR department, and I felt right at home. The culture and purpose at that company helped me see that I could find a fit for many of my interests and talents in the business world. I hadn\u2019t thought of business as an avenue I would consider until then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>3. What was your major and how did it affect your career decisions?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Studio Art and Sociology\/Anthropology with a focus on African Studies. My work at Holy Cross \u2013 academically, socially, and in partnership with professors \u2013 helped me created a solid platform from which I can choose my own adventure. The\u00a0 combination of my undergrade studies and experiences, a master\u2019s in foreign policy and conflict resolution, the job, career, and life choices I\u2019ve made, and opportunities earned and given have created a very exciting path. So far. I\u2019m not done and I\u2019m excited to see what comes next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>4. What were you involved with on campus? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going to class. Studying. Creating art in the art studio. Work study in Kimball and the photo studio. Time with friends. Getting to know professors. Sleeping. Exercising. Eating. Studying abroad. The unground pro-choice group. Student government. Curating art shows. Advocacy groups. Big Brothers\/Big Sisters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>5. What are one or two skills that you developed at Holy Cross that you use in your work? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curiosity and an interest in working with people. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holy Cross allowed me to ask all and any question in as many topics as I could handle, and learn how to find answers or pathways to answers. This is the foundation of my career pursuits. Next, my job is about people &#8211;\u00a0 interacting, listening, hearing, communicating, influencing, coaching, partnering, teaching, understanding, researching, analyzing. All the opportunities I had at Holy Cross \u2013 in the classroom, in my work study jobs, running clubs, speaking in public, negotiating with roommates, dealing with challenges with friends, navigating course scheduling, studying abroad, etc. helped build these interests and abilities<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>6. What advice do you have for students on campus today?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Focus on building you, not your resume<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be open to what may come, now and in the future<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be honest with yourself about what you need and want, and also about what you don\u2019t yet know that you need or want.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Cynthia White Class Year: 1995 Title: President Organization Name: Ceatro Group &nbsp; 1. In one sentence, what does your job entail? Founding, managing, and growing a consulting and research firm that helps organizations design better experiences and deliver more and different value to the humans that matter to them \u2013 customers, employees, suppliers, etc. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/2022\/10\/04\/meet-alumna-cynthia-white-95-president-at-ceatro-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet Alumna Cynthia White &#8217;95, President at Ceatro Group&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,32],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni-feature","tag-business-career-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}