HHH - Preeti Woods
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Preeti Woods: [00:00:00] That applications, that many applications that we process, right, to get to the 1.3 the week of Thanksgiving. We had 48,000 associates start.
That's a new record we set within Amazon starts day one starts.
Nicole Hammond: all of us out there are like, oh, proud moments. And then Preti comes in here and it's just like top of the mountain amplified a thousand times more, but so humble around this achievement.
I wanna hear about a moment, because again, with all of these, building the plane while doing it, you have moments where you're like, oh my gosh, we're gonna crash.
Preeti Woods: there was a moment where there was a lot of feedback during the UAT that made us pause. We solutioning and how we were going to implement, and you remember this because we've had some intense conversations around this.
You know, I think that that moment right there last year, uh, I look back upon that moment and let me tell you, I was very scared.
ultimately we worked hard. And, and You know, [00:01:00] we accomplished something big and now our customers are truly delighted by it. So, You know, end of the day.
Nicole Hammond: Everyone a friend, grab a drink. Uh, because this is a special episode. Special because this person is near and dear to my heart. Uh, and I've [00:02:00] recently met her in the last few years, uh, through just. Amazon DSP coming on as a customer. So we wanted to talk about a, remember when I brought my, remember when, which is the
first trip we took to Germany and the Hoff Bra house, and we will share more about that later. So grab your friend, grab your drink. Here we go. Uh, she is an accomplished industry leader who brings a rare blend of technical expertise, strategic insight, and hands-on operational leadership. She has built. Multiple high performing teams from the ground up, including a 20 member program management team at Amazon and a technical reporting team at Verizon, both responsible for delivering large scale tools, reporting systems, and data-driven solutions. She spearheaded major enterprise transformations, including Verizon's wide agile transformation and a 20. Million, I repeat. 20 million deployment of the Clarity [00:03:00] PPM platform, that unified portfolio management tools for 8,000 plus users and generated over 3 million in savings. Her current role is the. Lead for the successful implementation of Smartrecruiters to over 3000 DSPs, which stands for delivery service providers globally, those people that leave Christmas at your doorstep every day. She is our Senior Product Manager at Last Mile Delivery at Amazon. Please welcome Preti Woods. Thank you for being here pre.
Preeti Woods: thanks, uh, thanks Nicole, um, for all the kind words. Um, I appreciate it and happy to be here to share a little bit of my journey with you.
Nicole Hammond: We have had to reschedule this a few times due to a number of things, and I've just been like, oh my gosh, today I get to talk to Preti Today. I get to see Preti. Um, and just not only share some amazing things you've done in your career, but also just remember ones that we've had to gather.
So, uh, excited. Excited for that. Um, so with [00:04:00] that, I'm just gonna jump in because I feel like we could talk for hours and hopefully our listeners will stay on with us and we promise not to take hours promise. Um, but let's share more about you and let's share more about a moment in time in your career that you are just very proud of.
And you are a humble individual. So I know that even just doing this is, You know, a stretch. But I want you to share with the audience you're hiring. Happy hour.
Preeti Woods: Sure. Um, yeah. Um, I know that we all, You know, go through this. We, we've, um, changed roles, change positions, get different projects, um, and then when you're reflecting on your journey or updating your resume, you realize, oh my God. Um, You know, I have done quite a bit and I don't know, um. What my favorite, um, project or product was, um, given that, You know, you always say when you have children, I love them all.
But You know, you, if you look at it and we all have that one moment in your career, you're like. [00:05:00] Oh my God, I, this is literally like one of the things that I would be proud of as a individual, as a leader, and as a team that we delivered this project. So this was, uh, one of my first projects that when I came into Amazon, within the first six months, I was just thrown into this.
Ongoing product that was already 90% complete development for phase one. Um, so what, what was this? We, so basically this was, um, high volume hiring for our associates who are in our warehouses who pack, pack our lovely boxes and, and put all the goodies that we order every day from Amazon.
Nicole Hammond: Yes,
Preeti Woods: Um, and then they show up on time at our door to save our day.
Um, so. We had to replace our Salesforce hiring system, which was basically couldn't handle our volume, um, and speed when during peak, You know, when I say peak, so before Christmas we have to hire all these associates so we can [00:06:00] take care of all the orders and make sure everybody gets their Christmas stuff before the 25th.
Um, so we were going to replace this monstrous tool. Not only that, but we are going to build it from scratch.
Nicole Hammond: Oh wow.
Preeti Woods: based, right? So we used AWS technology. We, we own all this technology. We are gonna build what we have, right? Eat our own dog food. That's what they say. Um, And so, um, we built this, I was just one person, team of one when I started this project.
And,
Nicole Hammond: Small but
Preeti Woods: Small and mighty. And then we had, and then we, I had like two people who came in part-time to help me out. So the first year also was the COVID year, so this is 2020. Um, so we had our own challenges there with COVID and a lot of people, the market was flooded because a lot of people who were in the restaurant industry were basically out of job, right?
Everything was closing except Amazon. Who was hiring hundreds and thousands of people, so people were [00:07:00] lining up. So, anyway, in short, the impact of this, like the scale and speed we. launched this in June, like the first phase, and then we expanded it across United States, as a phased approach.
by the time our last phased, launch was end of October, which is way into when we are like peak hiring for Christmas. so that year we hired 1.3 million. Associates. So let's just that, let's think, let's sit have that, that number right, like 1.3. And I have never, like I came from Telecom and Verizon and yes, everything was in millions and the scale was large.
But yeah. But from a hiring standpoint, when we are looking at 1.3 million people starting their jobs, we are talking about maybe six or eight times. That applications, that many applications that we process, right, to get to the [00:08:00] 1.3 the week of Thanksgiving. We had 48,000 associates start.
That's a new record we set within Amazon starts day one starts. So can you imagine how, much work that, we, had to do to get this rolling? New tool, training, um, hiring, yeah. Volume, scaling, all those things.
Nicole Hammond: I want our audience just to think about it, 48,000 associates in one week, right? Like, let's think about some of the companies that are listening right now. That's probably more than they do in a year. In a year. So let alone thinking about the technology and just the support that the system had to have to take on that volume and 1.3 million in one year.
Holy cow.
Preeti Woods: Yeah, and we were, yeah, and we were like at 99.8% system availability through peak, which was one of our major problem statements. We were trying to, and 98% SLA, and we like reduced manual processes by [00:09:00] 70% on our, on our individual site. People who are doing all the hiring, the recruitment teams, um, and automated bunch of things for them so they could hire faster, You know, with, with COVID being, being a thing, it was taking longer because we had to do this special drug test processes, et cetera, et cetera.
So, um, any, anyway, we just trying to make it more efficient and, um, and also a very good candidate experience, um, for the application on mobile. So we had this, uh, mobile friendly. Um, apply process where it was short And so that we had less candidates dropping at applications, uh, level. Um, so yeah, very, very, um, very exciting.
Uh.
Nicole Hammond: Pretty, this is, this is like all of us out there are like, oh, proud moments. And then Preti comes in here and it's just like top of the mountain amplified a thousand times more, but so humble around this achievement. I, I wanna break this down for our audience, [00:10:00] right? Not only did Amazon build this from the ground up, okay, so think about anyone that's in tech. A company that builds a product from the ground up is not an easy achievement. And in addition, your first version is not your best, right? You're continuing to optimize, continue to improve, but then in parallel you are project managing this process of, okay, you guys over there are building the technology.
And don't worry, I'm gonna put in place the processes and also combine these two things to make sure they work together so that one we can hire for peak or prime days. And two, that. We make this a good quality experience that we have, like performance, stability and volume can be taken into consideration.
This is freaking huge. So for anyone out there, Preti can do everything.
Preeti Woods: Not everything but.
Nicole Hammond: I mean, that is an incredible achievement. I I, I do wanna pause because again. This is huge and you should be so darn proud of [00:11:00] yourself, so darn proud of yourself. I have been in a room with Preeti so I am going to politely interject my own thoughts here now, which is not my norm. And not only was my first impression of Preeti holy cow, like she is amazing, but she is politely amazing, right? Like she is one of those people that, and you've all been in a room with this type of individual where they know what they want to do. they know how to get it done and they have their way to do it like a, list of milestones is not gonna work.
I want every row of that Excel spreadsheet to have the details, and I know who is accountable and I will hold them accountable. And when we traveled to Germany and met in that conference room, as, any company would understand, You know, when an implementation is going to be successful and when it is not.
And I can tell you in that moment, I knew that. They were in good hands with Preti and sure enough, here we are year plus later, and Amazon DSPs are live in, in how [00:12:00] many countries? Preti?
Preeti Woods: Um, right now, um, for, so we are in eu, which is nine different countries. We are in Japan, we are in Dubai, we are in, um, na, which is, uh, US, Canada. And we, um, also have Mexico and Brazil. So, um, yeah, quite, quite a bit of accomplishment there, right? Like you said, year and a. Like this was year and a half and we have launched all this with 3000 plus DSPs, like you said in your opening.
Nicole Hammond: Yeah.
Preeti Woods: Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: So, I mean, proud. Proud. I'm proud of you. I'm proud of everything, but I wanna come back to the people listening that are like, I can do that. And yes, you can. All of you listening, you can do this if you are diligent, if you are detail oriented and if you are polite. Politely direct, you can do this. but tell our audience, Preti, like what is the secret sauce, right?
Like, what does it take, what are the top things that, that we all should keep in mind as we go through this process of building the plane while flying it?
Preeti Woods: Yeah, that's a, [00:13:00] that's a, that's an analogy used all across Amazon. I dunno why that, I learned that that was a statement here. Like, we built a plane while we are flying it, and I was like, what does that really mean? Oh, now I have been through three planes that I built. So I think I, at the end of the day, You know, for me what's fulfilling and what I'm passionate about is, um, since I come from a really tech background, but then.
Bridged over to the business side of things is actually how do I, make this marriage between tech and business? As enjoyable and happy as possible so that we are supporting all the business goals and outcomes where we are doing so by focusing on who our customer is at the end, right? So in this case, our customer is a candidate, right?
Who's applying for a job. So my focus is on that. And in this particular thing, when with Smartrecruiters. DSP, the delivery service partners are small business owners. They're using this tool because Amazon's providing them this tool to help them hire. Um, those are my customers, and ultimately at the end of the [00:14:00] day, those are the people, who should be happy with the tools that we are providing, to minimize their frustration with hiring, in this space.
So to me. You have to be passionate about what you're doing. You need to believe, um, in
Nicole Hammond: Believe
Preeti Woods: in the
Nicole Hammond: yes.
Preeti Woods: why am I here and why am I doing this? once those two things are clear, we just have to execute. But you have to execute with the same passion as if I'm. You know, I'm going to be impacted by this tool.
If I deliver this to myself tomorrow, would I be using this tool? Would this delight me? Would this make my life easier with that attitude and also burn a lot of hours?
Nicole Hammond: Just a
Preeti Woods: Yeah, just a few. Just a few.
Nicole Hammond: I mean it's true. Your passion does shine through and I think it's important we'd have to love what we do and, and love the journey we're on, in mind the objective of what we can achieve. And so believe is key. Believe the why. [00:15:00] Uh, I love that you come back to the candidate.
This is a similar story to Bosch in, in my time where. Sometimes you are at points in the road where the technology and the business aren't having a good Yeah. Like they are not happy with each other, and you have to come back to that outcome of candidate, and that's what brings you jointly back together to a mutual agreement of how to move forward, um, or how to fix something.
And so I think that is very key. Uh, and I, I'm happy to, to hear that. Um. Share with me a time, right? Like we've talked about this proud, huge, impactful moment. It might as well have its own firework show. Like that is how big this is. Tell us about a trial or tribulation during that time. Like, I, I don't wanna get our shoulders too heavy, so we'll come back to happy in a, a, a little bit
we'll cheers our, uh, Hoff Opera House cups.
Preeti Woods: Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: I wanna hear about a moment, because again, with all of these, building the plane while doing it, you have moments where you're like, oh my gosh, we're gonna crash. [00:16:00] Um,
Preeti Woods: Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: Tell us about that and tell us how, how you got out of it, because I think it's important for lessons learned to be part of this as well.
Preeti Woods: Well, You know, we, we had a a, we had a time box to launch Smartrecruiters last year because we had another vendor that we were using before Smartrecruiters, and they were sunsetting in May.
So, You know, the contract was gonna end and we had to have a new system launched by then. So that was like a hard date. You can't like adjust. Right. Uh, so going forward, let's just look at, okay, we started development in January last year. Our pilot launch was April 14th. So you can imagine like it's three and a half months to pilot and then full launch April 28th.
, I think there was a moment where we had to, after UAT we had certain DSPs tested and there was a moment where there was a lot of feedback during the UAT that made us pause. We solutioning and how we were going to implement, and you remember [00:17:00] this because we've had some intense conversations around this.
Nicole Hammond: we, we have, and let me just share with our audience for those that aren't familiar with the term, UAT, this is user acceptance testing. So imagine a world in project management where you've gone through design, build, implement, and now you're testing to see, is it working the way that I wanted it to.
So keep going,
Preeti Woods: Yeah. Yeah. So we realized that the way we were, deploying this solution where we had one instance of Smartrecruiters and we would have thousands of DSPs on the same instance using the system that the cons with this was every DSP wanted to customize. Their own hiring processes. They wanted more control in their, instance on how they wanna create a hiring process, how to customize, it, et cetera, et cetera.
So it became clear to us that if we took away those capabilities, that they would not be happy with this tool. So we had to have sort of a. [00:18:00] Come to Jesus with, our capable Smartrecruiters partners. talked to the CEO. You know, we talked to Rebecca, we talked to everyone, and we came up with the solution.
And this was really like within a month we aligned on the solution and we decided to basically go with. Every DSP gets their own smart regular instance. So they have full admin capability to do whatever they want, which is, the right thing because they are a business of their own and they wanna manage their business the way they wanna manage their business.
moral of the story is you may think that something, You know, this is where, um, speed sometimes can be a. Con, um, because when you're trying to meet a particular milestone or deadline, you have to make some hard decisions, but ultimately you can't compromise on the fundamental of why we are doing it.
Right? If I would've launched it as is, it [00:19:00] would be a big failure.
Nicole Hammond: So I will just share another side of this, right? Because I was deep in the trenches with you around this project, and I think it's important and an interesting perspective to get the customer and the vendor perspective, right? So internally, we were looking at the pros and cons of. One way. Right. And it was the only way that we knew how to offer our system was one instance.
Yes, we had customers that had more than one instance, but they didn't have connection. And so Rebecca, our fearless CEO, came in and as she can, she said, Hey, we're gonna dedicate. Ex developers and we're gonna create something new. We are going to create what we call multi-instance parent instance at the top.
So Amazon could not only have the data and the centralized repository that they used for many more things, which I think is just. Phenomenal. But then also copy down these child instances so we're not configuring every single instance. They're having the baseline kind of template that was, [00:20:00] established during that implement, design, build, implement time. And then build this out so that to your point, every franchise DSP had control, whether they wanted to do a little or a lot customization in there, and had a centralized place to talk to us around what they needed and to prey's point, like short amount of time. pivoted and we did it. And again, doesn't come without its trials and tribulations. Rebecca made that call. She's the only one that could make that call. But I will say something came out of that that now will be utilized with others. So I think it is an opportunity for us to also state the true transparency, trust and partnership of this relationship. Right. To your point, you are in.
Honest, direct individual. And I love this about you because I know what I'm getting, right? Like I'm not getting the read in between the lines, prey's telling me how it is, [00:21:00] and this is what we need in this world for us to be effective. And to your point, in a short amount of time.
Preeti Woods: And, and sometimes I feel like I had conversations with the head of engineering as well on this. Sometimes we have to challenge ourself and push the boundaries even when we say, okay, I don't know. That might be impossible, right? You, you probably already throw your hands up and be like, oh, I, I, I don't, I don't know.
And then that point, I think you just need to walk away, take a walk, get some air, and then think about it again. And then you might come up. With, oh, maybe if you look at it this way. So not all times, but You know, I think that that moment right there last year, uh, I look back upon that moment and let me tell you, I was very scared.
Because
Nicole Hammond: I know.
Preeti Woods: I had to write a pivot doc and convince my leadership that yes, we are going to pivot to this approach and yes, this is going to be successful. Um, and I was like, oh my God, please God let us be successful right at prayer, like saying a prayer, uh, on the side because, uh, really you at [00:22:00] sometimes you have to take risks.
Nicole Hammond: Yeah.
Preeti Woods: And, and they, You know, turn into rewards or sometimes they turn into learnings, right? I always say like, everything is a learning process.
Nicole Hammond: I, I mean, again, for our listeners and for our audience out there, I think you're getting a lot from this. I hope you are because there is a lot in here. Um, but it is a moment when you are going through some sort of transformation. I say, go with your gut, but know, but also know who you're working with.
Can you trust the partner you're working with? Do you have that relationship? Don't be afraid to ask. Don't be afraid to have the hard conversations. I think it is so important in this world because at the end of the day, we knew your passion and your commitment and you knew ours, and I think that is so imperative to a good marriage, a good relationship, right?
You just have to make
sure that you're both. Right. We're, we're in
Preeti Woods: yeah.
Nicole Hammond: it, and we are
Preeti Woods: Here we are.
Nicole Hammond: on the, on the other [00:23:00] side. Prime days have continued to happen. I am getting more boxes at my door than ever before. So, You know, something went right.
Preeti Woods: Yep. Yeah, I totally, and I actually go into the literary site every day and, um, work with some of the, the DSPs and they love the tool. They have good things to say about it. So, You know, when you get real time feedback from your customers as well, that's, that's always a win. That always put a smile on my face.
Um, because, You know, ultimately we worked hard. And, and You know, we accomplished something big and now our customers are truly delighted by it. So, You know, end of the day.
Nicole Hammond: And so are the people Yeah. the candidates,
Preeti Woods: Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: They're, they're doing
Preeti Woods: Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: Um, one other piece to this and then, then we'll move on is my other reremember when of being in that room, right? Like. Everyone thinks they're complex out there. You all are okay. You all are special. You all are amazing.
We love you all in your own individual, right? But [00:24:00] the background check drug check, driver check process for Amazon was a woe for me. Was a woe, right? So Preeti and I are sitting in a room with other, stakeholders and she's. On the whiteboard describing their process. and in my head I'm like, holy crap.
Well that makes me feel better about the drivers, the cyclists, everyone at my door like, like rest assured that they are certified, validated in every single way. But how do we do this, right? Like, how do we do all of these processes? And I will tell you, our system didn't support it out of the box, right?
We cannot do all three of these things at the same time triggered. But this is where the customization comes into play. This is where a beautiful technical team led by Enrico, built this piece where it just integrated to trigger all of these things. I'm not gonna go into the technical detail, but I think again, that is a place where we [00:25:00] didn't sit in the room and go, yes, Preeti we can do all of that.
Don't you worry? It was more 20 questions around every topic. Take that back to our technical design team and say, can we do this
with the APIs? And they said, yes, of course we can. Here we are. So more transparency, more just like insight to these complex customers and that honesty, right? You didn't get a vendor that said, yes, we got it, and then you tested you're like, no, no, no, no. That's not what I was.
Preeti Woods: Yeah, one, one of our, one of our prime. Um. I guess objectives of moving to a new hiring tool was to minimize the different tools that the DSPs had to go to individually. So how can we provide a seamless experience when, if they're in Smartrecruiters and now they're ready to hire somebody, how do they, um, kick off onboarding for this person, right?
Right. From that tool and not going somewhere else and log in and, and try to. Manually copy [00:26:00] candidate information and all that kind of stuff. Same with payroll, same with other things. So, um, our, my objective from a product standpoint was how do I create something where I'm like, if I'm ready to do this, I can just push a button from this where I am at and accomplish that task without having to manually enter a bunch of stuff, which would lead to mistakes and stuff like that.
And also time, which none of these people have, because if you've ever been in a warehouse, these people are mostly on the floor. Putting boxes in the trucks, getting the drivers out on time, And so they have a lot of manual work that they're doing and not really sitting in front of computers like you and I.
You know, our jobs are totally different, so
Nicole Hammond: Yeah. Yeah. No, it's great. Um, well, Preti, I am proud of you. I mean, this
Preeti Woods: thank you.
Nicole Hammond: and you continue to do amazing things. Um, and thank you for this special partnership. Uh, let's talk about Preti. Let's talk about what makes Preti Preti, uh, as we think [00:27:00] about personal. When you're not working, okay.
'cause there is a time when you're not working young
lady. There is a time. And what makes you happy? What is your happy hour outside of work? What brings you a smile?
Preeti Woods: I think you probably know this about me. That's why we are friends. Um, uh, day one, when we click together and we are like, feel like, okay, you're stuck with me now in my life, even if even af after this job or whatever happens, You know, we'll always keep tabs on each other and, and follow each other in our careers.
Um, I love bringing people together. I love. Um, You know, my stress relievers are like Pilates. I go to Pilates, I cook. Um, I like hosting parties and, um, a lot of neighbors have been to my house for several dinners and
Nicole Hammond: Love it.
Preeti Woods: make desserts for my neighbors. I'd. You know, on their, on their birthdays. Um, I mean, I pretty much have like a village wherever I move, right?
So this is my second move. And like everybody in the neighborhood, I brought them together for happy hours, for dinners, [00:28:00] for birthdays and, and stuff like that. And, um, and my, my son, I have one and he is a freshman in college. Um, and he's, he's been my personal. Proud achievement. Um, You know, he's, um, straight a student.
He was, um, state tennis player, um, in high school. Um, he is doing really well in engineering freshman year. Um, and he makes me proud. He makes me smile. Um. Every time, You know, I have a photo of him, a big photo of him right here. So anytime I'm just kind of like, I look at him smiling face and I go, oh yeah, that's why.
That's why we are here. That's why we do everything we do. So, um, yeah.
Nicole Hammond: I have to tell you, Preti and I do talk outside of this podcast, and, um, her son is a, a top as we've gone through the college acceptance process. We've gone through playing tennis in college and not being too far from home. So while my kids are on the other end of [00:29:00] the spectrum, I take this advice and I do not forget it, as I think about
Preeti Woods: Yeah,
Nicole Hammond: those times where we have to go through that process.
Um, and I still have not been to a pretty. Party,
but have to make that happen. Yeah.
I know we'll, we'll, but we have met in parts of the
Preeti Woods: Yes. Yes.
Nicole Hammond: And had good Yeah. Uh, we've been to October Fest together in Germany as one of the first experiences, so trust was built very early,
, we've had some good
Preeti Woods: Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: it, it's fun. It's fun. I love it. I love it. Preti, you are so fun And so great and I doesn't surprise me that bringing people together is part of your personal happy hour. I mean, it's real. It's real.
Preeti Woods: Thank you.
Nicole Hammond: Alright, we are gonna switch to this or that.
You choose one or the other, or both, or neither. You can share the why. You can elaborate. You can say nothing. We just go with the
Preeti Woods: Okay. Okay.
Nicole Hammond: Choose your adventure. Okay. Um, [00:30:00] resume or LinkedIn profile.
Preeti Woods: LinkedIn profile
Nicole Hammond: Okay. Okay. Um, AI or no? Ai.
Preeti Woods: ai.
Nicole Hammond: as you think about career, find me or find you.
Preeti Woods: I think I would rather find you at this stage in my life of my career. Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: yes, yes, yes, yes. Um, career path or whatever comes my way.
Preeti Woods: You know, the whole career has been like whatever comes my way and it has worked, worked well. So I, I'm not gonna change that. I guess let's just.
Nicole Hammond: There's no shortage for pre to fix. It's like a superhero, right? Like we should think about what your superhero name would be pre it can't be pretty pre, automated interviewer. Live human.
Preeti Woods: Live human.
Nicole Hammond: Okay. Uh, reward or recognition.
Preeti Woods: Oh, that's a hard one. I would go with both at time, depending on what it is.
Nicole Hammond: homegrown [00:31:00] system or best of breed.
Preeti Woods: I would say homegrown, just because I go on like self-serve capabilities.
I wanna help myself.
Nicole Hammond: Uh, good manager or fun job.
Preeti Woods: Good manager. I would just change that to good leader, not manager.
Nicole Hammond: what, I'm gonna do that right
Preeti Woods: Yeah. Good leader.
Nicole Hammond: Okay. All right. Leader four day work week or work remote.
Preeti Woods: You know, I, I debated this myself. I love, like if I'm going into the office and I love being with people, obviously interacting, there is a place for that in, in our work life. And then we need quiet times to actually do the work and do the execution. To me, I think it should be outcome oriented, like.
Am I delivering what I'm supposed to deliver?
Nicole Hammond: Yeah.
Preeti Woods: does it matter if I'm working four days, six days, eight hours, 10 hours, or whichever days I want to? Um, as long as I'm delivering the work. Um, I think that's what as a leader I care about is the [00:32:00] deliverables
Nicole Hammond: I like it. I, I feel like I need to change my, this, or that's now. Okay. Some fun ones. Um, let's see. Amazon Prime, or go to a UPS and drop off your gift plug in there for Amazon.
Preeti Woods: Okay. I have literally not gone to a store to buy things in a very long time. I like order everything in Amazon and that it comes, and then I send it back if it doesn't work. So I. It's too easy. It's too easy. So
Nicole Hammond: I know. But for a working mom, it is
also the right
Preeti Woods: yes. Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: We appreciate
Preeti Woods: Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: Um, mountains or ocean.
Preeti Woods: Ocean.
Nicole Hammond: Cooking. Cooking or a fancy cooked meal.
Preeti Woods: Fancy cooked meal if it was for me,
Nicole Hammond: Yeah. Do you have a favorite like type of food?
Preeti Woods: Um, well, I like Indian comfort food when I'm like feeling missing home,
Nicole Hammond: Mm-hmm.
Preeti Woods: Otherwise, um, [00:33:00] it's kind of hard to pick something. I would say Italian, maybe
Nicole Hammond: Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Um, vacation or staycation.
Preeti Woods: vacation
Nicole Hammond: Okay. Uh, wine or beer.
Preeti Woods: wine. Vodka
Nicole Hammond: spirits. I'm in it.
Preeti Woods: spirits. Yeah.
Nicole Hammond: Got it. karaoke or dancing?
Preeti Woods: Dancing.
Nicole Hammond: Okay. Love it. Love it. Um, where are we meeting for our next in-person?
Preeti Woods: Um, I would say this summer. Come on, come on over, and then we'll do our own happy hour here in my kitchen.
Nicole Hammond: I love it. I love it. And, and I will tell you like, I have two of these because Preti gave me hers. So, um, I have two now. So, uh, good times at the Hoff Opera House in Germany. Um, never thought I would ever say during October Fest that I was going to Germany for business when going through security, [00:34:00] but I did. And here we are. I made a new friend. Um, tell our audience where they can find you and learn more and connect with
Preeti Woods: Yeah. Um, I'm, I'm on LinkedIn, um, and if you look up my name, pretty woods, you'll find me. Um, and yeah, let's connect, um, and if I can help answer any questions or, or you can share your own experiences with me, which I could learn from, um, yeah, most happy to hear from you. Thank you so much again for this opportunity, Nicole.
Nicole Hammond: Oh my goodness. Thank you. This has been one of my favorites. Oh my gosh. I said it. Yes, because it's with you. And as our friend Patrick had say, she's not just a preface, no pun intended. thank you audience. Thank you. Listeners, thank you all out there again. Grab a friend, grab a beer, listen to this one. I hope you learn something from this. I know most of you have felt the building the plane while flying it. Um, and as she said. Eat your own dog food. I say sip your own [00:35:00] champagne. I mean, we can, we can figure out which one sounds better, but please, um, tell your friends.
Enjoy. I hope you got something from this and thank you Preti for being here. This has been fabulous.