Kognitiv offers training classes all the time. My manager encourages me to explore the areas that I'm interested in but I'm also encouraged to take the classes that will help my team. It's the best of both worlds! I get to learn more about the things I'm interested in and I also learn new areas of Workday that I might've ignored or assumed I wouldn't be good at. Our internal communications mean I'm also always learning from other consultants, my teammates, managers, and product leads. I can ask questions any time, day or night, and chances are someone will see it. They might not have an answer, but they might know a good place to look, or who I can ask. I also learn new things from our clients - when I was still on the client side, I had no idea there were so many different ways to structure a tenant to meet my needs. Some clients are new to Workday, and ask the questions I wish I'd thought to ask and some clients have been using Workday for years and are still building and growing. It's amazing to see Workday from so many different view points every day.

I'm still becoming the person I'm meant to be but I've achieved and become more than I ever dreamed possible. I wasn't a cool kid and I certainly wasn't one of the smart ones either. Anytime something good happened I thought I "lucked out". College was when I first started learning who I am, but it's the years after college that really showed me what I'm made of and what success means to me. I'm able to comfortably provide for my family, I have the things I need and most of the things I want, and I work with amazing colleagues and for an amazing organization. I really wish I could show 13-year-old, 17-year-old, and even 30-year-old me where I am now.