Join me for the career reflections of Veronica Munoz, executive director of ACG Denver. Faced with the reality, and sacrifices, to become a professional ballerina, she shifts her sights to her next interests, being academically challenged and international business.

After earning a master’s degree, she lands a role at the American Bar Association and connects with a boss and mentor who helps propel her 20-year career there.  She strives to reach a point of comfort and confidence in her roles, then as soon as she does, she’s onto the next opportunity that stretches her outside her comfort zone again. A pattern she sees repeated regularly looking back.

What’s served her best: thinking before speaking, being measured and unflappable, having a strong sense of diplomacy. Her words of wisdom: “As a perfectionist and control freak, I’ve had to learn how to forgive myself for mistakes. I’m human, people make mistakes, it’s ok, so I have to get over myself.”