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Mary Writz: Take a negative and make it into a positive. [VP Product Strategy] [Career Notes]

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Mary Writz, Vice President of Product Strategy at ForgeRock, shares how each career path she has taken has led her to where she is now. Mary describes how she has been a woman working in a male dominated field for most of her career and how she had to take charge, and she had to get the men to take charge with her. She says "I was often leading people, mostly men older than me, potentially smarter than me, more well paid than me. So I had to learn how to think about galvanizing this group to charge forward with me, even though I was a bit of a minority in that way." She also states that she tells herself to always make a positive out of a negative by showing people how you can respond to what's happening with a lot of energy, focus, and care and that's what got her to where she is today.

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Hello, my name is.

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Hello, my name is Mary Ritz. I'm Vice President of Product Strategy at Forge Rock.

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Most of my career I've been a woman in a male-dominated career and in fact I became a

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