Lisa Rosen leaves litigation to work at an environmental non-profit organization

Lisa Rosen is the Chief Operating Officer at SustainCERT. After starting her career in litigation, Lisa followed her interest in environmental issues to an in-house legal position at a non-profit and ultimately transitioned into an operations role there. Lisa’s story shows how your legal experience is seen as valuable for a non-legal position and that by taking that first step, you put yourself on the path for new, more interesting opportunities to present themselves.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Lisa felt that the conflicts of interest inherent in the billable hour system was misaligned with her values and integrity 
• Lisa followed her interest in environmental issues into carbon credit work 
• Lisa found work that was intellectually challenging, but wasn’t technically practicing law
• Eventually, her position evolved into a general counsel role
• Lisa raised her hand when the Chief Operating Officer role opened up and transitioned to that 
• The importance of resourcefulness  
• Failure is part of the path to your goal
• Lisa has come to realize that what she enjoys is operating a company

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