Her Story
About Katie
My journey to tech sales has been anything but traditional. I started out as an athletic trainer - I got my Master's of Athletic Training at Seton Hall and ran track in college. I wanted to work with athletes, I thought that was my thing in my early 20s. But right before athletic training school, I had this really terrible accident. I had back surgery, and my left arm was paralyzed. I ended up getting the athletic training master's degree, but after that, I realized I wasn't going to be working with football players or collegiate athletes anymore. So I ended up working in health systems alongside orthopedic and neurosurgeons, similar to a nurse, but not on the field with athletes. I did that for a couple years, and then I realized that I wanted to do more, so I got a Master's of Public Health at NYU. From there, I started working in the startup space in more of a clinical software role, and that directed me back into the space of AI health tech. Now I'm the Director of Sales at a startup called Amprose Health. We're in the insurance space - we have an AI that actually works denials and collections on the back end for health systems and other healthcare organizations.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Katie
01What do you attribute your success to?
For me personally, it's this intense drive to succeed. I've always had this my entire life. I'm a visualizer, and I just don't think I'm ever going to fail. I'm okay to fail, but I don't think I'm ever going to. I've failed a lot, but within those failures, I just keep pushing forward because I refuse to let it defeat me. I've been laid off, I've been pushed around, all the things that happen to everyone, but I just keep pushing forward.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Your job when you're young is to figure out what you don't like. You shouldn't be so focused on doing that exact thing for the next 40 years. You're trying to figure out what you're good at, what you like, what type of roles you excel in, and just to learn and absorb as much as possible so that you can be flexible when the time comes and make a change.
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