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Anne, thanks for joining us today.

Thank you so much for having me, Kwame. I'm excited about our conversation. Yes, me too. It's our

pleasure. So how would you get us started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Yeah, thank you so much. So a little bit about myself. And I actually think this question is spot on because people confuse who they are with what they do.

So who I am is I'm a proud second generation American. I'm the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. And I'm a mom. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a wife. And I have had the

incredible fortune over three decades of a career to be both a student and practitioner of leadership.

In my corporate career, which spanned over 32 years, I worked at AT&T, where I started out actually

as a network engineer and then went on to have all told 17 different roles and 26 different bosses.

And the role that I retired from AT&T out of was as the CEO of AT&T business, which was the business

at AT&T that served all business clients, small to large to global multinational. It was a $35 billion

business with 35,000 people around the globe. And it was a fantastic job. I had that role through COVID actually. I was

appointed in 2019. Then the world changed. And it was wild and rewarding. Now I am in a phase

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