Cassie Leonard comes from a family of engineers, with her aunt running her own engineering firm. By the age of 14, Cassie wanted to go into space and design space stations!
“It never crossed my mind that I could not be an engineer, it was just logical to me,” Cassie says.
Cassie started studying aerospace engineering at UCLA but quickly realised the airplane portion of aerospace was much more thrilling than the steady orbits of outer space. Top Gun airplanes, G forces, all very cool things, where you can still come back home to your own non-floating bed at the end of the day!
She scored her first job at the largest aeronautical companie, Boeing.
” I applied 25 times” said Cassie!
Imagine turning up for your first day of work to find out you are the only One Woman! Maybe quite daunting.
But it did not stop cassie from spending 16 years at Boeing!
And You know what’s great in accumulating 16 years of corporate experience in the biggest aerospace company in the world? You get to explore a lot of possibilities and growth at your own pace (be it fast or slow)!
After a lot of technical jumps, she started her leadership journey and led very large complex teams.
She now leverages all of her experience to help other mid career STEM professional, and especially parent, navigate how to build a career that fits within their life and not the other way around.
She took the leap a little more than a year ago and released her first book STEM moms and is now in full swing of her coaching business.
Tune in for lots of career advice!
For more STEM role models, head to Career with STEM to see more profiles like Cassie’s.
And her book ? Well it is amazon best sellers Number!
Learn more about Cassie on her website
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Released on 12 March 2024
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