Trium
Renee Cullinan
Principal
Join Our Team | A Day in the Life
6:30am
I hear Makaela chatting with her stuffed dog and I know my little girl is awake and ready for her day. So am I; I've already worked out, checked my email and dressed. I gather Makaela and Bobo and seat them at the table for her favorite breakfast: oatmeal, yogurt and blueberries.
7am
I've kissed Makaela goodbye, handed her off to David — my husband — and am headed for the office. From the car I connect with New York and London, using this time to regroup with the team, particularly Colette, a consultant in New York and extraordinary mother of two small kids whom I admire on multiple levels.
7:45am
At the office, I meet with Shannon, my right-hand CSC on most of my projects. We grab 15 minutes each morning to gain a line of sight on the activities ahead. It's a particularly beautiful day, so we do this while walking to Starbucks for a Soy Misto.
8am
Team status meeting for a cornerstone client. We align on next steps for the week, prioritize actions, assign accountabilities. We "zoom out" to see the big picture and resolve a touchy issue. We close, confident that we've laid the foundation to create the client results that makes us proud.
We review and finalize an Outputs Documents from last week's client working session, which resulted in a new value proposition and org structure. We sharpen the document to underscore the most essential messages, creating a tool to drive organizational alignment and excitement. When it's right, it goes to the client.
11:30am
Drive time. Monica and I head down the Peninsula to interview key participants in an upcoming leadership summit and plan the next phase in their organizational transformation initiatives. We arrive and begin a series of 30-minute interviews, then meet with Barrie — a favorite client — to architect the next phase of the transformation. Goals achieved — and new restaurant discoveries shared with Barrie — Monica and I head back to town.
5pm
More drive time. Monica and I join a brainstorming session for an upcoming offsite — thank God for Bluetooth. I drop Monica off at home and then head home myself. I use the car time to catch up with Joya, my best friend from UC Davis. We finalize plans for our July college roommate reunion. We're all turning 40 this year, so the five of us, plus our husbands and kids, have rented a big house for a week in Mendocino, a great seaside town three hours north of San Francisco. We decide that one of the days will be a girls-only outing: sea kayaking followed by a spa treatment and drinks.
7pm
I open our front door to the aroma of the dinner David's got on the stove. I read to Makaela from Beatrix Potter; tonight it's Peter Rabbit in the lettuce patch. I put her and Bobo to bed just as David pops in to tell me that dinner's ready. David's classes at Tante Marie — a cooking school in San Francisco — have really paid off. The filet is perfect.
8pm
I dedicate one more hour to wrapping up the workday: final touches on a proposal then, notes to the afternoon's interviewees, thanking them for their time and insight.
9pm
Having wrapped up the workday. David and I sit down together to share our days and simply enjoy each other's company. He remarks, as he often does, how amazing it is that I love my work so much. And it's true. I look forward to tomorrow, when I get to start the day with a 7am yoga class at work with my friends.
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