Favorite Parts Of Being A Consultant At ADAPTOVATE
Lucca enjoys the balance between making "meaningful contributions to engagements" and prioritizing personal learning and development, specifically through colleague interaction and new approaches. The ability to see projects through from strategy design to implementation and witness the impact has also been "the most impactful thing."
Consulting, Learning and Development, Client Management, Strategy Implementation, Empowerment
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Lucca Polacci
Consultant
ADAPTOVATE
Arizona State University (ASU) - W. P. Carey
Business Management & Admin, Political Science, American Studies
Consulting & Related Professional Services
Business Strategy
None Applicable
Video Highlights
1. Balance between contributing meaningfully to engagements and prioritizing learning and development.
2. Empowerment to own work streams, such as leading client interviews, early in career.
3. Supporting clients in executing and implementing strategies, seeing the impact from 'soup to nuts'.
Transcript
What do you enjoy most about being in your role?
I think the thing I enjoy most, especially given where I'm at in my career, is having a balance between contributing meaningfully to engagements while also prioritizing my own learning and development. The meaningful contributions can be on any engagement, but most of the learning is focused on engaging your colleagues.
You might pick up new approaches, ways of thinking, or facilitation techniques. You're able to contribute meaningfully, oftentimes at this point in your career, by owning different work streams. Maybe it's leading client interviews.
I think that empowerment is something I really enjoy. Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't be allowed to do it because I'm 24 and still very early in my career, but it feels really good that I've been empowered and given that trust to actually contribute meaningfully.
Something specific to my firm is that Adaptive doesn't only just design strategy and give a big bill and leave, like some other consulting firms that I won't name do. We actually support our clients in executing and implementing those solutions and strategies.
That has been probably the most impactful thing to me: going from soup to nuts, designing a strategy and then supporting the client in implementing it and seeing the impact of that. I think that's definitely the thing I enjoy most.