He empowers me to be the best person I can be, not only for myself but for the Conservancy, because a better me is a better conservancy. A great example, I support folks in Brazil. Professional development is really important to me and my supervisor has been really helpful. I tap dance to work because I love the people. Johnny: I work in the legal department for The Nature Conservancy, and I tap dance to work. And so as somebody who has honest – one of our core values is integrity beyond reproach – and that’s something that I just really think is so important, especially at a time when trust in scientists is declining. At the Conservancy, of course, we’re doing science to meet the mission, but when we have an inconvenient result, we still publish it. So talking to colleagues at other organizations-I won’t name any-but the scientists’ job is to prove what you want the message to be. Jon Fisher: And if you’re in a conservation organization, you kind of know the outcome before you do the science. I think that going forward, you’ll see many more different faces siting in the cubes, both here at WO and then around the offices, the business units outside of the US. And we have a more inclusive workforce and we’ve taken a number of runs at it over my career here at the organization, but we finally, I think, have a lot of heft from the whole organization behind it, and that has made a big difference. And part of that reinvention has been our recognition over many years of the desire and the need for a more diverse workforce. John Bender: It is that ability to reinvent yourself that has been one of the greatest strengths I think of the organization. So at TNC, as long as you know what to do and you proved that you can do the work and that you can do it while you’re having fun, really lets you do whatever you want to do that fits with our mission and our core work. Gondan: I started off as a conservation staff and then after five years, I moved to development, and then went back to conservation and now, here, I’m in development, in changing countries at the world office. And it’s a testament to that self-criticism that as an organization we don’t rest on our laurels and it’s always “how can we be better and smarter and more impactful?” Rosita: Another thing I love about this organization especially as a woman of color who works here is that the organization is constantly self-critical and trying to be better, and part of the team of that I work on is actually focused exclusively on how can we make this organization better in terms of a place where all employees feel valued and can actually thrive.
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