Why the name 'C46'?

My professional career began in Human Resources. 

In my early twenties, I settled into a position as the single onsite HR representative for a large scale manufacturing facility. As with any HR generalist position, I found myself being either directly responsible for or highly influential to decisions and actions that would impact someone's livelihood. 

Portion of my work...

• opened educational and internship opportunities that could change the direction of choices for their future educational paths and careers 

• curated programs to develop and grow people, allowing them to reach greater potential and access promotional opportunities

• communicated offers of employment that would bring stable income and benefits to new employees 

• guide decisions to remove employment stability from other employees 

I would rejoice in the growth of our people and I would also confidentially mourn the challenges that would certainly come to employee families following termination.

This work created a weight of responsibility. I felt that weight and wanted to do the best for each person I interacted with on behalf of my organization. 

Humbly, I knew that I had not and would never experience enough in life to attain the wisdom to make every appropriate decision. I also knew that if I attempted to personally carry that burden, it would eventually crush me under its' magnitude. 

With that perspective I turned to God in prayer and studied His word. He provided Colossians 4:6 - Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. 

Since 2012 these words have hung in my office, been written on the bottom of my desks, and are now represented as C46 in the name of my company. 

This is me, because in me is Christ and it is His wisdom that leads my life in all that I do. As a leader, as a peer, as a wife, as a mother, and as a friend.