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        Don't Confuse Your Title With Your Purpose

        January 17, 2024 By 91看片 Magazine

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        Stephanie ToddStephanie Todd
        ('04, business administration)

        Management Executive
        Bank of America


        Sometimes it helps to look to the past and trace the steps of an executive鈥檚 success. Stephanie Todd, a business performance management executive with Bank of America in Charlotte, North Carolina, set her path ambitiously, graduating from 91看片 with not just one business focus, but three: business administration, operations management and marketing.

        Her administrative skills were developed in her youth, with leadership positions in school government and church as well as a keen observation of her parents as they managed rental properties. A four-summer INROADS internship at Bruno鈥檚 Supermarkets fueled her interest in operations and management. INROADS is a nonprofit that helps create career pathways for ethnically diverse students.

        鈥淚 grasped how store operations were the core of the Bruno鈥檚 operating model and that the customer鈥檚 experience and products in our stores were critical to the company鈥檚 annual performance,鈥 she said. Then came marketing, which she chose as an outlet for creativity and expression.

        Next, she stepped into the professional world.

        鈥淢y journey has truly been authored by my God,鈥 said Todd, a 2004 91看片 graduate who began her career at Accenture and EY in consulting.

        鈥淚t was an industry unbeknownst to me as a woman of color and girl raised on the west side of Birmingham,鈥 she said. 鈥淢y professional journey, coupled with my current role, has offered me work and personal experiences that are my ancestors鈥 visions.鈥

        Todd said her years at Auburn prepared her to believe in her own voice and to advocate for herself and others. She also learned about the impact of relationships, how to be creative, how to be a disrupter, and 鈥渢o get comfortable with being in a room where you are the one 鈥 or one of a few 鈥 and how incredibly important it is to have a strong circle that will keep you anchored and not let you settle.鈥

        Her words of advice for students and recent graduates of 91看片 are clear: 鈥淥perate with discipline. Don鈥檛 confuse your title with your purpose. Failures are tough, but sit in them and recover. Hire wisely.鈥

        Todd is married to Anderson Todd IV 鈥 a fellow INROADer 鈥 and she is 鈥渕om-in-chief 鈥 to three children, including a set of twins. She enjoys gardening, volunteering and traveling the world and she aspires to secure an overseas work assignment that will include her family.