Your NameCarolyn Ramon
Email Addresscramon@sixthriver.com
Cohort AssignmentAmericas with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

Senior Technical Architect and Department leader for 8-10 commercial architects in a firm that is primarily Interior Design.

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

Minding the shop for the principals, who need to be out doing business development and not mired in the execution of projects. Staffing and workload management.
Supervisor monitoring performance and navigating team effectiveness. Supporting people in their career journeys. Discerning the type of support each person needs that are within my sphere of influence.

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

Sharing knowledge, training, supporting emotional health and love through time and mentoring, role model and servant leadership. To use creativity and organization to lead others through change. Providing order to chaos. Bringing meaningful spaces to the world. Infectiously spreading the kind of love and stability that cures all ills.

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

Prioritization, discipline, being a wife and mother.

5. And for professional growth?

Training others, business development, negotiations, situational leadership, coaching and mentoring.

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

College and Grad School in Architecture. 22 years in the profession. Learning everything I can get my hands on about building technology and code. Now learning project management, department management, situational leadership, communication, quality management.

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

Building technology - what was built and why in different eras of history
Green building - passive cooling - enhancing wellbeing of people through spaces

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

Conservative Christian philosophy and cosmology... but I believe everything in science is just teaching us more about the creation and isn't contradicting it. I believe humans are stewards of the earth, not just another animal.

Date CreatedFebruary 7, 2024