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Dear Sales Reps,

One of my 2018 goals was to keep a journal and I’ll be honest, it has yet to happen. However, I thought this blog would be the perfect place to start holding myself accountable to writing down my thoughts and feelings. (In front of millions of people.) So, please come along for the journey. Today, I’m going to get personal and write about stress.

There are a handful of things that modern society still uses from the 1400’s. The “resume” is one of them. It has morphed and developed over time since Leonardo Da Vinci wrote his professional resume in 1482. While this seems like a no brainer, I’m still asking the question: why? We no longer use feather quill pens and more importantly, people are so much more than a one-sheet piece of paper of their “accomplishments.”

When I had my first interview with HubSpot, I’d been a proud Californian for exactly two weeks. I cringed as I emailed my recruiter, “I’m so excited for this opportunity, but I just moved -- and I can’t do it again.” His reply was swift and easy, “Oh, that’s no problem, we’re open to this position working remote.”

TL;DR The main purpose of this post is to address what I’ve experienced while transitioning at work and what you can do to help your colleagues.

I’m approaching two major anniversaries this month. The first (and it feels crazy to say) is my two-year anniversary at HubSpot. The second, which is far more personal, is the 1-year anniversary of my medical transition.

Let’s start with a bit of context. For those of you who’ve never heard that term before, the HRC defines transitioning as:

“…the process by which some people strive to more closely align their internal knowledge of gender with its outward appearance.”

Sales has gotten a bad rap for its “bro” culture, and not long ago, HubSpot faced that challenge on our own sales team. We took a hard look at the diversity of our company and realized it took us too long to make inclusion a priority. And as our company and our sales team have worked hard to move away from monoculture, we’ve had to reflect on what we actually mean when we say ‘diversity and inclusion in sales’.

Have you been thinking that your current job doesn’t fulfill you? Would you like to change careers but aren’t sure where to start?

Many people who want to change careers never actually go through with it because of a number of factors such as: inertia, fear of change, fear of leaving something established for something that might not work out, fear that they lack the necessary skills to succeed, or fear that even if they change careers, they still won’t be happy.

When it comes to diversity and inclusion (D&I), I often find people fervently arguing in support of creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace … and then losing steam on the doing part. It can be difficult to know how to drive the movement forward, especially if D&I isn’t part of your job description.

After struggling with this myself, I started this list as a way of brainstorming every single discrete action I could think of to move the needle on D&I. You know, stuff that anybody in any organization can actually do. Because after all, D&I is everyone’s responsibility, and collective effort is needed to really make an impact.

Why should you always be growing in your career? What does always be growing mean? To grow you need to learn and to always be growing you need to always be learning.

When you’re always learning you’re constantly developing new skills to help you move forward in your career in whatever way you want. Whether you’re just getting started in your career or are counting down the days to retirement, learning will always be a valuable asset.

So how can you always be learning and growing your career?