- What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
>On a professional level, I have long lived by the code that "I will sweep". That is to say that, regardless of my position in an organization, I am not above the work that has to be done by those on the "floor level". I came to adopt this mentality because I recognized that if I was willing to run a broom or shovel that I would more easily earn the respect and buy in of my team members in order to achieve my goals. In addition to buy in I found that I was able to understand better what their specific struggles were prior to implementing policy. In my role as a safety manager this was particularly important as it ensured that the folks performing the work had a say and were far more likely to actually utilize a new policy, or alternate PPE, etc. Without that buy in, and without that ground-level perspective it is far too easy to implement changes that
