Deidra Jackson

Right now, in this moment, I'm gonna give it to my parents. I have a mom that never quite stops mothering me, even though I am 50, and she's been amazing. She's been a big visionary and she's tried and done a lot of different things in her life, even though she has a high school education and spent her time as a lifer in the United States Post Office. She has pretty much been the backbone of the entire family, and to climb up, to have a different and better life. So my mom and then my dad has always been my biggest champion. I'm the only girl, I have 3 brothers, and so he's definitely a great girl dad, and I grew up in sports and all the things, and one of his biggest things, saying to me is, Danielle, you can do anything that anyone else can do, don't depend on a man. So that's what I've done.

My dad has always told me, Danielle, you can do anything that anyone else can do, don't depend on a man. That advice has shaped how I've approached my entire career and life. I've also learned from my mother-in-law who says, what God has for you will see your face. I very much appreciate how life goes, and the opportunities that come, and the doors that close, and the doors that open, and just being prepared for whatever that season is.

Feel, trust, and believe. What I mean by that is make sure that what you are aiming at and taking in and shaping your life around, or your next opportunity, or your whatever is something that you feel deeply within yourself that resonates with you, versus external influences that's making you believe that that is the path to go, so I think it's super important that you're aligned and feel where you're going, because that creates the vibrational change that you need, just in life. And so, I think that that's important. And to believe, obviously, in, you know, one, the vision and the dream that you have for yourself, and two, in your ability within yourself to make it happen and trusting that you have everything within you to make that possible, and if not, trust that, I'm a big energy person, obviously, as you can feel, but the universe will bring that to you, right? So long as you have proper alignment, proper people, proper perspective.

I'm gonna stick in the healthcare field, and I would say the biggest opportunity is this technological boom that we're in with AI and how it's changing just the face of work. I would also say that that is also one of the biggest challenges, and the reason that it is the biggest challenge is because AI just learned from the data and the models that we put in, and in healthcare, our data models are largely biased, and so we have to be careful that we're not training these AI agents to perpetuate biases and all the isms that exist in our core data because of, you know, all records aren't complete, or included, or fairly represented, etc. And so, I spend a lot of time right now with different clients focused on that in order to really improve healthcare for those who might be more disenfranchised.

Alignment. It's super important, I'm finding right now. Alignment is super huge, and that's personally and professionally, so I want to be aligned with a team that's rowing in the same direction, you know, that understands the seas and the challenges before us, and we're in the boat rowing, versus a team that you have to convince that the seas are storming. So I think alignment is super important, and also alignment in just your personal self and energy and where you want to give your talents and spend your time and pour into people and life. So that one is big. I think also, obviously, you know, having a spirit of curiosity and inquisitiveness and creativity, because I think that that's how you manage through change well and not be so thrown off by change, because you know, it's a constant, and so you develop the resilience through those 3 things that I mentioned in order to navigate change.