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Is this thing on? Can you hear me in the back? Ok, great. Oh you can’t? Oh ok, yes, yes you can. Ok great.
Well hello, everyone. My name is Jay and I am so excited to be here at our 2024 conference. I see a few familiar faces in the room and a few new ones, so I’ll just introduce myself a bit here. I’m Jay Magro and I’m a Senior Vice President at Alight. I’ve been with the organization for about fifteen years now and was at another organization prior for about twenty years, so for all those millennials in the room I am OLD, ok? Haha, just joking a bit there.
So today I’m going to talk to you all about the thing we’re all here to talk about: how to work better, be better, and do better for ourselves and each other.
Let’s start with the “what.” What exactly are we trying to do? When we’re sitting down in a room with all our amazing colleagues thinking about next month, next week, next year, what is that big goal, that big idea, that thing that gets everyone really excited?
Next, of course, is the “how.” How are we going to get there? How can we leverage all our respective talents to get this boulder up the hill?
Which begs the question, “who?” Who are you? Who would you like to be? Who is that person you trust most, and what if that person was you?
The “where” is clear: it’s right here. It’s in this room. And it’s in every room you’re in after today.
Finally, and honestly, I’ll tell you, when I got this, this changed everything. It’s knowing your “why.” Your why can be so many things: You want to help others. You want to help yourself. You want to help the world. Maybe you even want to change the world. The “why” is the gas in your tank, the seed you plant, your north star, your beacon. And you have to know it better than you know anything else.
I think I’m running out of time here but I just want to leave you with this: When I was starting my career, I was a lowly assistant. I did everything: I got the coffee, I answered the phone, I took the minutes, I cleaned the toilets. All of that was fundamental to my work today as a Senior Vice President. Sometimes I’ll even go in the bathrooms at the office and just smell the blue toilet water to remember how I started in this industry.
And I am just like every. Single. One. Of you.
Thank you all so much, feel free to add me on LinkedIn, catch me outside after this session or any of the other sessions, and have a great conference!
