Good-bye Accenture, Hello PepsiCo

I just put my resignation in at Accenture today. Feels surreal. Ironically, today is also my 10-year anniversary with Accenture. Feels like a long time ago that I put on my little business suit and went to our offices downtown in the Bank of America building. I was SOOO nervous. I spent my first week in office orientation, then 3 weeks in Chicago at our St. Charles training facilities, than back to Dallas and onto a plane for the next two years working in San Antonio. My team in San Antonio was a dream team and those friendship and relationships have stuck with me and are the reason I was able to get my foot in the door for the position at PepsiCo. After San Antonio it was a year in Los Angeles, then a year in Atlanta, then time in Florida and then I started the International travel to India, the Philippines, etc. I have been places and done things I never dreamed possible. God has clearly laid out the path, Grant has always been my #1 fan, my family is my foundation and support, my Dad is ever-present with business advice, and my Mom is the ear I have needed when I lacked confidence or just needed to vent. Accenture has been there through the purchase of our first house, Grant's law school, our almost move to Vegas, Cadence's birth and now Jack Ranger. I have received an incredible amount of experience and am so very thankful for those that have helped me along my career path and I feel I can walk away proud of this chapter. Life marches on but I will never forget drinking games in San Antonio (maybe not my most proud moments), working on the back lot of Universal studios and walking into the theme park to catch a ride during lunch, red-eye flights every week for a year, seeing the Taj Majal, getting the chance to develop our team in Manila, sexual harassment from a few crazy clients, sleeping on the floor under a desk at Texas Instruments while we worked 24/7 during a go-live, scuba diving in the Philippines, having status at every major hotel chain, being violently ill at the airport in Delhi, and most of all the camaraderie developed while doing the mad things we do at Accenture. Good-bye.