Adrienne Floyd, MBA

One of my greatest strengths is thinking ahead and intentionally planning my career with purpose and vision. I am passionate about continuous learning because I believe every person has knowledge and experiences that can help me grow. I never assume I'm the smartest person in the room, and I value collaborating with people who challenge me to think differently. My willingness to learn should never be mistaken for a lack of confidence, but rather a commitment to becoming better every day. I absorb information like a sponge and use it to strengthen my decision-making, leadership, and relationships. That passion for growth is what drives how I think, how I move, and how I create meaningful impact wherever I go.

The best career advice I've ever received is to never let anyone steal your joy. Challenges, criticism, and setbacks will come, but they should never take away your passion or sense of purpose. Protecting your joy allows you to stay focused, resilient, and confident in your journey. When you lead with a positive mindset, you're better equipped to overcome obstacles and continue growing. Joy is one of the greatest strengths you can carry throughout your career. No matter where my path leads, I strive to protect that joy every step of the way.

I would tell young women to be graceful in learning. And all the pieces you learn through time will make sense if you are truly in it to understand and know what it is you're doing in Treasury. Because Treasury is the heartbeat of company finances. And it is one that helps with governance for accounting, for FP&A, for strategic planning, for the CFO, for the CEO, and when you also have the banking relationships and trust with dealing with company credit cards, and you're dealing with millions of dollars, like, the highest portfolio I've dealt with is in the billions. And so, I would tell anyone entering this field to understand that you are helping with governance. And you have to do that with grace, structure, poise, and productivity.

Treasury's a growing field. I think it's really starting to take a strong turnpoint to have its own definition, its own, really, workload in 2020, around that time of COVID, that's when Treasury started to really come about. And one of the challenges, I would say, is now that we have a lot of financial technologies in place, we have to now get on board with using these solutions and being able to now teach others who are in corporate how to use these tools, because in corporate, you know, you have different age ranges, different education levels, different exposure levels to softwares. So it's all about how do I get these tools to be transparent to the people that are going to work with them. And another challenge is just creating better visibility, better visibility for portfolios. Another challenge, I would say, as I look into hopefully branching out to my own treasury firm to help underserved communities would be the exposure for skill sets, for reform for things that matter. And with the field being so new, but not new in a sense, it's just a matter of how do we make these challenges turn to solutions, and expose these solutions to businesses that need it, and it can help better their structure.

I would say what's really important to me is balance, because without balance, nothing can happen. And I will say balance and humility. And passion. Yes, those three things. Balance, humility, and passion.