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Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Ep.282 – COO, Center For Family Representation, Alicia Williams

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Careers

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is COO Alliance Member, Alicia Williams, the Chief Operating Officer of the Center for Family Representation. Alicia oversees CFR’s diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging work, human resources, information technology, and administration activities, and also works closely with our CFO and Executive Director on strategic planning, facilities and operations issues. She has more […]

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we're just going around and around and it was like okay this is what we're gonna do we're

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gonna live into this new process and this new way of doing things

0:07.2

let's just six months right in like then re-evaluate but we've got to do something

0:11.4

different so that was a very solid piece of where I was just like,

0:15.0

okay, this is not working, we've got to do something different,

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this is the proposal I have, let's live into it,

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and then tweak it if we need to tweak it as we go along, but we've got to start moving this

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process forward.

0:27.8

Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the

0:34.1

C.O. Alliance and brought to you by its founder, Cameron Harold.

0:38.4

In the Second in Command Podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies, and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

0:48.0

And now here's your host, Cameron Herald.

0:58.8

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to meet the powerhouse behind the Center for Family Representation.

1:00.2

Today's episode features the one and only Alicia Williams, the CEO who's leading the charge in the fight to keep families together.

1:06.8

As the organization's first ever CEO, Alicia's been instrumental in the growth and success of the C.

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And she's here to share her story with us.

1:15.7

With a passion for people and a knack for leadership, Alesha has taken on the challenge of

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transitioning to report to a new COO, and she's doing it with her trademark energy and enthusiasm.

1:25.2

As an extroverted COO, she brings a unique perspective to the role and she's not afraid to speak

1:29.4

her mind and share her ideas.

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But even with all her experience, Alicia admits she could have slowed down a bit when executing on ideas in her early days as C.O. She's learned the value of taking a step back and using surveys internally to gather more data to ensure that everyone is on the same page.

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And speaking of data, Alicia knows just how important it is for the organization like CFR

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