Welcoming New Women Leaders To The Team!
Happy Women’s Equality Day! We’re excited to welcome our new teammates to the GLG Dream Team!
Welcome to Quinyatta Mumford, our new Chief Operations Officerwho has an exceptional background in community health initiatives. Sarah Stanczyk, our new Program Director, is the former Assistant Coach for the St. Mary's women's soccer team. And welcome back Abigail Headrick Vieira, MPP, our Director of People Success!
Quinyatta Mumford
Quinyatta holds a Master of Public Health from Walden University, an undergraduate degree in Biology with a minor in Child Psychology, and is currently all but dissertation in the Doctor of Public Health Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Abby Vieira
Before coming to Girls Leading Girls, Abby worked for roughly a decade with women fleeing domestic violence and families experiencing homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sarah Stanczyk
Sarah is the former Assistant Coach of the St. Mary's women's collegiate soccer team. She graduated from Western Michigan in 2011 with a degree in psychology. She served as Assistant Coach at DePaul from 2014 to 2018 and spent the two seasons prior as a volunteer assistant at Michigan.
We were able to convene in person for a staff retreat to dive deep into our team culture, strategic plan, quarter goals, and the stories of the people we impact. Thank you Charisse Fontes, Founder of Culture Circle, for continuing to guide us, and opening our hearts to this work we do and to each other. Go team!
GLG CEO and Founder Bre had these takeaways from the retreat:
1. We're in this together. All of it. Not just the work we do but this human experience we're having — the ups and downs, the challenges and wins, the love and pain. And I'm so grateful to be surrounded by these women — this tribe.
2. Change is the only constant. As we grow, what worked before won't work now. And if we aren't growing, we are stagnating. I believe that with every new growth step we must pivot and change to match that growth AND the growth that is coming next.
3. My leadership style must continue to adapt. This is the hardest lesson I've been learning throughout this journey. Leadership is not a personality type — it's a skill. A skill that I must continue to evaluate and improve, to adapt and personalize, to fail and learn.