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Authenticity at Work
By Barbara and Elizabeth Pagano
Women tackle the next big workplace hurdle – being
unapologetically female.
After a few decades of a lot of hard work, Lynne Seid has finally found her authentic self. She's dressed in True Religion jeans and cowboy boots, having sold or given away her Armani suits. But finding such authenticity didn't happen until she resigned from global advertising firm Foote Cone & Belding, leaving behind a high-six-figure salary and her post as president of the New York office, where she oversaw 600 employees and a $1 billion revenue stream. Among her reasons: "I was tired of having to act like a man."
Today this all-new Seid works at media technology company Visible World. She still sports a wicked sense of humor and a toughness that makes clear her high expectations for the people she works with – those qualities were always the real thing – but there's a new, relaxed spirit in her, one that connects more personally with people.
Read the rest of this story in the June.July issue of PINK and click here to read this issue's online exclusive, "Find Your Authentic Self."
