Many Paths to Happiness: Kathleen Hogan of Microsoft

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff · Jul 13, 2021 · 37m

This episode is in partnership with SAP SuccessFactors.

Kathleen Hogan, Chief People Officer at Microsoft, may oversee 160,000+ employees, but she never really planned on going into business. What the former Harvard mathematics major really wanted to do was become a professor.

Although life took her down a different path, Kathleen doesn’t regret it. Finding she had a knack for business, Kathleen learned how to ascertain when situations called for flexibility and when it was necessary to advocate for what she needed. Navigating a path to an executive position as a single mom through two bouts…