Her Story
About Sarena
Sarena Lewis serves as a Business Development Partner, drawing on more than a decade of experience across various sectors of the healthcare industry. Her career path includes seven years in human resources and talent acquisition, where she has focused on strategy building to advance new business initiatives. Lewis graduated from Jim Hill High School and earned an Associate's Degree in Medical Office Management. She values accountability in both her professional and personal life and attributes her success to a determination to never give up on herself. Lewis advises maximizing transferable skills when pursuing new positions and encourages women entering the field to approach every day as an opportunity with a positive outlook. Currently, she sees opportunities to grow her company statewide throughout Mississippi through ongoing hiring efforts.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Sarena
01What do you attribute your success to?
My determination to never give up on myself.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice that I've ever received would be to maximize off of your transferable skills. With every position that you made be interested in. You may not hit all of the qualifications, but you have to be able to still and you have to know what matches when it comes to those transferable skills. That's pretty much built me up in my career.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Advice to women entering the industry would be that every day is an opportunity. You don't know everything, so you have to enter into any situation with the positive outlook.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Opportunities to maximize and grow the company statewide in the state of Mississippi, with hiring happening throughout the state. I couldn't think of specific challenges right now.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Accountability is most important. In work life, you have to be accountable for your actions and what you contribute to a company. In personal life, you can't grow without accountability. You have to have that type of quality or value within yourself to succeed.
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