Shreya Mohan

Honestly, I think I attribute my success towards the people around me. Everybody in terms of coworkers and people in my personal life has always been very encouraging, positive, and pushing me to be the best that I can be. So, I think without that, I wouldn't be where I am today, so definitely maintaining a good group of people that want the best for me is a very vital piece of my success.

I think the best career advice is that it's very important to advocate for yourself, because nobody else is going to do it. And so making sure all of the things that you are accomplishing from your day-to-day, to you, it may seem just like a normal day, but if you don't highlight them yourselves, then it's all the things that you accomplish will be overlooked, and so just advocating for yourself and making sure that you are able to be on the your position, you're able to get promoted when you're supposed to get promoted, and your leadership is also noticing and recognizing that all of the hard work that you're doing is valuable to the firm.

The biggest advice I'd give to young women is to make sure to hold yourself confident, and are sure in the decisions that you're making. I think as women, we have to work harder to kind of be looked taken seriously, you know, we can say the same thing as a man, but it would be taken more seriously if the same words came out of a man's mouth. So, I would say that being confident and, again, advocating for yourself truly goes a long way, and making sure you're just not falling, you know, behind in that way, because it's easier for a woman to be overlooked.

I think some of the biggest challenges I think it will go hand in hand with technology advancing so much as it is right now, and with the implementation of AI, and just how things are always changing and developing. I think it's a challenge and an opportunity where challenging is you know, kind of understanding how AI even works, and learning about, kind of, LLMs, and just how to put, like, good prompts into AI, and, like, how I can use AI in my day-to-day work to kind of make my life easier. And it also brings opportunity in the case where I do consulting, so how can we implement AI in our clients? And as a firm, when we use when we're using AI, how can we make our lives easier, as well as showcase that to the client, and kind of bring in more, like, show our clients that we are also up to date on the technology, so I think on that front, it is an awesome opportunity.

Values, I would say I think one of the values that I have just in both my professional and personal life is kind of I mean, I don't know, lack of a better term, but kind of helping people and creating a positive impact. And just being an overall positive person, I think is very valuable, especially if, like, you're in a hard time and you're not sure how to go about a situation. Just kind of maintaining a positive mindset. I think it goes a long way. So positivity. Helpfulness, being authentic as well is a huge value of mine. I'd rather, you know, cut the small talk, or cut the irrelevant conversation, even. And not being fake, just being my full self. That's kind of my one of my big values as well. And also, on top of that, just developing meaningful relationships, which I spoke about already, but just making sure I'm caring about my connection with people, rather than, you know. I guess what I can get out of them, but maintaining a strong connection as well.