Her Story
About Katelynn
Katelynn Schmidt serves as an Account Executive and Account Manager in building automation, managing 25 to 30 accounts primarily in the healthcare vertical market. She meets with her customers at least twice a year face-to-face, engages in business development to find new clients, and participates in industry networking events. Her professional journey began with studies in nursing, leading her to become a CNA and medical assistant while still in high school. She later earned a health informatics technology certificate and progressed through corporate roles in technology support, analytics, and consulting. For five years prior to her current position, she provided healthcare consulting services to independent private practices, including the sale of an analytics platform and support for EHR and revenue cycle systems. Over the past three years, she has leveraged her extensive healthcare background in sales for building automation solutions. One notable aspect of her career is how it has come full circle, as a clinic where she once worked as a medical assistant is now one of her customers. Schmidt maintains memberships in Women in Healthcare, NISHE, and ASHRAE.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Katelynn
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I really would advice to my younger self, and it's something that I really didn't start doing until this past year, was truly taking the time to go to more, like, the women in healthcare events and networking events. Kind of put it on the back burner early on in my career. I was like, is it truly necessary? Is it just a happy hour? Is it a waste of time? Like, all those thoughts, right? But really getting to know other people and being able to talk to people who are in the same industry as you, same struggles and talk about how they've dealt with it. Those are the things that I didn't put enough or see enough value in back then, that now I'm like, okay, it's not necessary like, before, I looked at it very I don't know what the right word is. Maybe one-minded. Like, if it wasn't moving the needle for one specific customer, right? wasting money time, and I feel like I was looking at it too narrow-minded. Whereas now it's like, I can go to it to help me get through, not necessarily from just a sales perspective, but to lean on resources. Allowing yourself to take the time to attend those things, and not feel like you're wasting your time, you know? or put pressure on yourself that unless you walked away with, it's okay to just attend those things and network and realize that you're still growing yourself.
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