hello my name is felicia patel i'm one of the leads of our google cloud
consulting women's group in this series i'll help you learn a
little bit more about the inspiring and resilient women leaders we have here in
google cloud consulting or gcc and you might learn a thing
from them as well in our first video we're going to meet
blessing blessing leads uh is one of our leads of
our delivery practice in gcc the delivery management team enables
business goals through repeatable and reliable delivery outcomes
first let's hear about her journey in this role
thanks felicia my journey to being a delivery
management leader it was a little bit convoluted i started out as a computer
science graduate um
somewhere along the way i got an mba and i went from writing code to running
projects and relationship management and even sales at some point
um delivery management is a pretty large team within google cloud consulting i am
responsible for a team called delivery excellence and within that we have the
project management office we have our delivery quality team we also have a
team that's responsible for learning and enablement um but our
mission is to empower our field teams to deliver amazing projects to our
customers awesome awesome it's incredible work and
an inspiring story to get there um so our next question is who inspires you
who's been your inspiration my mom i know it's cliche um but my mom
my mom my mom came up in a different time and
she didn't have as many opportunities or allies or support as i do
and she had four daughters and she could have put us all in the box but what she
did was tell us listen there are no boxes and there are no rules and you can
make your own rules and create your own past and i think
very early on she gave us permission to be different and that was very
empowering so um she remains my biggest inspiration
that's awesome and that's those are the biggest qualities of such an awesome
leader is to really understand you know your people and and how to help
them grow and and achieve
their goals so
that's also extremely inspiring um what would you say is a piece of advice
that you have for young women in tech that are looking to have successful
careers themselves um the first thing i would say and i say
this it really comes from a place of compassion and empathy i speak with a
lot of new um
entry-level type um folks in entry level type roles and
there's a lot of anxiety to do well very early on to go fast
one of the things i would say is your career is a multi-decade endeavor
you know you come into your career straight out of you know college
university in your 20s and you might retire in your 50s or your 60s that's 30
40 years and what that means is you will not have all the answers in year one in
year two if you miss that first promotion by year three it's not the end
of the world and so thinking about your prayer as a multi-decade and endeavor
it's a marathon not a sprint and i'm thinking about it as a journey
right there's no real destination every promotion is a door to the next
you know challenge and so are you learning are you growing are you forming
good relationships are you feeling challenged and those are the questions
you should be asking yourselves as opposed to oh am i
somewhere at a certain time just like you know ease into it and give yourself
time to grow yeah that makes a lot of sense it's a
marathon not a sprint like you said um it's it's such good advice to keep in
mind in your day-to-day uh making sure that you're doing what you you want to
be doing um and making a change if you're not yeah um so really awesome to
hear that and thank you for your time blessing this was amazing to really hear
your story and then hopefully everyone was able to to internalize some of that
and get some advice to take on um in your own endeavors
awesome