{"id":466,"date":"2019-02-15T16:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=466"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:36:27","slug":"cathy-northington-shares-how-jones-college-students-can-be-leaders-making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/cathy-northington-shares-how-jones-college-students-can-be-leaders-making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Northington shares how 糖心直播 students can be leaders making a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELLISVILLE \u2013 Mississippi Economic Council COO, Cathy Northington spent a morning at 糖心直播 recently sharing how 糖心直播 students can be leaders who make a difference as the guest speaker for the college\u2019s annual Black History Leadership program. Despite the many obstacles in her way, like leaving college to have a child and being raised by her grandmother, Northington discovered a way to be a leader in her field.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI remember complaining to my grandmother, \u2018I\u2019m tired and I want to stop working. I don\u2019t feel like my voice is being heard the way I wanted it to be heard,\u2019\u201d explained Northington to Jones students. \u201cMy no-nonsense grandma in her meek and mild manner told me, \u2018It\u2019s not about you. It\u2019s about what you can do for others.\u2019 That was the gut punch I needed.\u00a0 At that moment I knew that I needed to lead to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jackson native studied marketing at Mississippi College and graduated from the Institute for Organization Management, an intensive four-year nonprofit leadership training program conducted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at the University of Georgia. She was able to rise to the top as Chief Operating Officer of the MEC, Mississippi\u2019s leading and largest broad-based business organization, working part-time before becoming MEC\u2019s Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer and current COO, because of that \u201cdefining moment\u201d with her grandmother.\u00a0 She decided to become a leader who is teachable, compassionate and empathetic. As the, Our Mississippi Magazine\u2019s <\/em>and the Women\u2019s Fund, 2018 Business Woman of the Year, Northington applied her grandmother\u2019s wisdom to become a successful leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a leader is one of the hardest jobs and it\u2019s also one of the most rewarding\u2026. In order to be teachable, you have to understand you\u2019re never too old to learn. You have to care about those that you\u2019re leading to being compassionate. If you are empathetic, it\u2019s not always easy, but you have to allow yourself to be vulnerable. To whom much is given, much is required. Serve, even when you\u2019re not getting paid to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n

She challenged the audience to consider the \u201cpearls\u201d of wisdom they can leave and collect, as well as what kind of blessings they can leave behind. Coordinator of the event and 糖心直播\u2019s assistant to the president for corporate training, Dr. Samuel Jones, added we can all learn from each other, but we also have to discover our purpose in life to impact our surroundings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a purpose for everything. I encourage you students to find the purpose in all of your challenges, in all of your struggles and in everything you face in this thing called life, because this is what leading to make a difference is all about,\u201d said Dr. Jones.<\/p>\n

Northington also urged students to get out of their comfort zones and be disciplined to make the soundtrack of their lives what they want it to be; positive or negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ELLISVILLE \u2013 Mississippi Economic Council COO, Cathy Northington spent a morning at 糖心直播 recently sharing how 糖心直播 students can be leaders who make a difference as the guest speaker for the college\u2019s annual Black History Leadership program. Despite the many obstacles in her way, like leaving college to have a child and being … <\/p>\n

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