Roadmap.

Day 0 - 30: Focused Learning

  • Understand Main Priorities
    • Guiding Questions: What information do I need to acquire to be effective immediately? What can wait until later? What’s my role in the bigger picture? Where can I contribute best? What is my 80/20?
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    • Become a Durable Stakeholder: Go through the process, from start to finish, of becoming the various stakeholders of Durable. Consolidate learnings, recommend any enhancements, and note anything that stands out.
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    • Get to Know the Team: This is super important to me and how I work- I work best when I want to be accountable to my team.

 

  • Fundamentals of Boundary-Pushing Thinking at Durable
    • Guiding Questions: How does work get done at Durable? What systems are in place and what can I put in place to produce at the same and higher level? What does success look like here? 
    • Stay Actively in Touch with Durable’s Organizational Goals: Continue active reading and open conversations with industry leaders to intimately understand the landscape. Ensure that our team goals and efforts are in line with and supportive of Durable’s overall corporate strategies, and vice versa.

 

  • Gaining Momentum
    • Guiding Questions: Where can I remove friction in my work to get more done in less time?
    • Other Core Goals: Ongoing synthesizing of learnings to date, take action on any outreach and follow-up that are a result of my learnings, jump into any problems that my team is responsible for solving, launch any internal efforts that I can like a newsletter roundup or other.

Day 31 - 60: Executing on Main Priorities

  • Update Strategy Based on Feedback and Learnings
    • Am I on track to meet my goals set last month? As a new hire? As a member of Durable?
    • Identify what has been working well and what has not. Do I need to do something differently? Is the team working through any pivots or navigating macro environments? Are we collectively in sync?

 

  • Start Building a Pipeline
    • Outreach to internal and external stakeholders and experts that can contribute to our team’s growth. I am efficient with outreach and can output to a high degree in a short amount of time.
    • Double down on my strengths that have been identified early on. The goal: output the most value that contributes to the team’s goals. I believe this is really where exceptional results stem from.

Day 61 - 90 & Beyond: Increased Efficiency & Ownership

  • Hit a Stride
    • By now, I am well into building a strong foundation at Durable. Focus on doing the work and becoming more efficient. Stay scrappy and nimble to adapt and lead.

 

  • Take Ownership of Projects & Initiatives
    • Be proactive in seeking out new areas where I can add responsibility and help the team. Undertake new internal and external initiatives that will help Durable as a whole.

My Experience + Work Samples.

School

  • UBC (BCom in Finance, Minor in Law)
  • Stanford (Certificate in Product Management, In Progress)

Work Experience

  • Hiive / Operations + Capital Markets / Vancouver, BC
  • Fulcrum Capital Partners / Private Equity Analyst / Vancouver, BC
  • Blackstone / Private Equity Summer Analyst / New York, NY
  • BMO Capital Markets / Investment Banking Summer Analyst / Toronto, ON

Startups + Small Biz

  • Scalar AI / Worked on building AI agents for sustainability and climate teams with my cofounder from Stanford in SF
  • ESGLab / Built and scaled a sustainability consulting business
  • Real Estate Side Hustlers / Built and scaled a side hustle focused on teaching others about breaking into real estate investing
  • BMB Signs / Helped out every summer growing up with my family's small business in the sign industry (Kamloops, BC)

Work Samples

  • Scalar (fka Aligned): The startup that my co-founder and I worked on in the AI x sustainability space
  • ESGLab: The sustainability consulting studio I was building while at UBC and post-grad
  • Blackstone: How I pitched the crossover private equity team on investing in climate tech