Through the website bonniehathcock.com, the book “Lilac Dreams,” and the Facebook page All You Were Meant To Be, my goal is to share what I have learned through my life about living and showing up most moments of the day with elegance and grace and how to persevere, even when times are difficult.
In this new career-oriented section of the webpage, I tell the story that has been so often requested, the journey of my career. If you are willing to follow the threads of grace, perseverance, mistakes, and triumphs that run through each chapter of this series, it is my belief that you will gain a new awareness of deeply emotional aspects of your own life which will bring you abundance and joy. May you be blessed by the lessons that life taught me each step of the way of a vibrant 37-year career in corporate America.
“Lee, Lee!” said a female voice behind me one Sunday afternoon as I was leaving church. The beautiful man in the navy suit that I had spotted in the sanctuary last week was walking just ahead of me. At the sound of his own name, he…
After graduating from college, I turned to corporate America as a way to fulfil my dreams. With degree in hand, I applied at Xerox Corporation. They hired me as a secretary in the mid-70’s with a promise of upward mobility if I established a…
Here I was in a lovely and charming city, and I was miserable and wracked with fears of losing my job. My sales numbers were among the lowest in the country, and my neck was on the line. To add to my self-inflicted pressure, the big boss of the…
In anticipation of quaint neighborhoods, a skyline that impresses but doesn’t overwhelm, and craggy beaches along the New England coast, I moved to Boston for my career. Now that I was settled into my charming…
Xerox knew how to maximize the talents of its employees with purposeful moves in and out of upwardly-mobile roles. With each new assignment, employees gained rich experience and enhanced skills. In keeping with this tradition, the instructor…
It usually takes about six months for me to feel comfortable in a new job. Six months and a lot of extra hours studying and preparing to measure up. In my career and life, fear was my biggest motivator—fear of…
I made the bittersweet decision to give up the comfort of being close to my family and the harmony with my branch office in Harrisburg to interview for a national position within Xerox. To move onto the national…
I was about to make a huge step in my career, but first I had to decide if I wanted to leave the comfort of the close proximity to my family and my Xerox branch office where I had worked for almost two years. I had a…
Xerox gave me a chance to earn my way in the world when they promoted me from secretary to marketing specialist in the branch office in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In this new dream job, I focused hard on establishing…
My hard-fought, hard-won corporate journey of 37 years would eventually take me to the pinnacle of corporate America, serving a Fortune 100 company as a C-Suite executive reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. This…