1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 I'm bringing you an inside look into the journey of Stacy Willis from engineer to COO, where she's making waves by pioneering cross-department collaboration at Playwire. 🌊 &amp;nbsp; 🔄 Incremental Change Magic: Stacy's success story underscores the transformative power of taking small, manageable steps. Discover how incremental change became the secret ingredient in Stacy's leadership recipe. 🌟 &amp;nbsp; 🤝 Cross-Department Synergy Unleashed: Breaking silos is Stacy's superpower! Dive into her insights on fostering cross-department collaboration that sparks innovation and unites teams for extraordinary results. 🌐 &amp;nbsp; 🎯 Test Plans for Success: Learn how Playwire crafts pre-built test plans for each initiative, ensuring clarity and effective measurement aligned with top-level company goals. Stacy spills the beans on their systematic approach to success. 📈 Show Notes: brittanydrozd.com/73 &amp;nbsp; Eye Opening Insights: &amp;nbsp; [00:04:08] Stacy: I actually decided to go back and get my MBA, but the funny part is it sounds sort of accidental, but when I was in high school, they gave us this task to like write a letter to your future self. And then our teacher kept it and literally mailed it out like 10 years later. It was very cool. And I, I had on it, I will have been an engineer for three years and then I'm going to go back to get my MBA and this and that and I've happened and I had forgotten I even had the plan.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; [00:05:51] Stacy: And humans are the most complex problems. So that's where I think I've ended up in operations.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; [00:09:17] Brittany: What do you think has either been different for you and made you successful in more of a leadership role? Or what do you look for to when people are making that leap from IC to manager? &amp;nbsp; More From Brittany Drozd: &amp;nbsp; Find Out How to Work With Me Here: https://brittanydrozd.com/work-with-me &amp;nbsp; Find More Episodes of Eye Openers Here: https://brittanydrozd.com/podcast &amp;nbsp; Eye Openers Podcast https://brittanydrozd.com/podcast <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/28956253/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/164702238