Lauren Barker

Chief Executive Officer

Cape Cod Young Professionals
- Instinct to lead
- Not a participant of high leadership roles, trouble finding her voice in large groups
but in small groups it was easier
- Turning point for finding her voice and public speaking was in grad school Her son
- She learned to speak up for herself when doctors wanted to tell her what to do.
- Winding path that gets you to where you want to end up
- Grew up in Dallas, Texas area
- Women in leadership roles
- Women weren't taken seriously and she wasn't when she was single with
no children but when she had her kid she was taken seriously
- She was told to lower the tone of her voice and lower confidence level so
she sounded like less of a know it all
- Leadership and management doesn't come easy
- She aspires to be good
- Overlooked by managers and leaders
- Golden rule
- Learning as you go
- Making mistakes
- Perfect won't happen the first time around, be humble and use it as a lesson for
next time
- Perseverance and realizing you can get up again when you get knocked down
- Transparency
- There is no “normal”
- To be a true leader, you are empowering others and seeing the big picture, managers
are mechanical from day to day
- Leaders rise above
- There is no perfect leader
- Her idea leaders are leaders are close to home
- Accept you don't have all the answers
- Worked as a liaison for the city and a nonprofit
- Served the public with a mission
- Keep denton beautiful project
- Planting trees, wall murals, cleaning up trash
- She did work with foster children
- Couldn't see the impacts
- Exposure to terrible situations kids were put in
- Nonprofit
- It's like building an airplane as you fly it
- CCYP (falmouth to p-town)
- Focus on what's great about living and working on the cape
- Cape Cod allows for big fish in little ponds instead of little fish in a big pond
situation
- Shape the Cape Conference
- Independent nonprofit