Today marks the last day of my 22-year career journey at Accenture. It’s strange to think about a day when I won’t be getting up and logging on to Microsoft Teams to collaborate with my teams across the globe. Like everyone else who leaves this special place, I call out that it’s the incredible people who make this company what it is. As soon as I walked through the door of then-Andersen Consulting, I could feel it was dazzling and different. I had no idea I’d spend the next 22 years there, but that’s one of the strengths of Accenture: finding work that’s different or interesting isn’t difficult.

We don’t sell a “product” at Accenture. It’s our people who comprise what we deliver internally and externally. And I’ve had the great pleasure of knowing some of the kindest and smartest people one could ever have the pleasure of meeting. It was working in our Global Internal IT group where I was able to cross my passion of writing with the purpose of driving adoption of our internal collaboration tools–and most recently, Microsoft Teams–into my dream job.

My love of writing articles and blogs–content creation–spilled over into video production as I began to create web series and promotional videos to engage, entertain and educate our people about our suite of collaboration tools to get them to begin thinking about new behaviors that would help take their collaboration experience to the next level.

I’ve been enriched and inspired by the teams I’ve worked with over the years and proud to have lead two of my own over the last several years. And, I don’t think it was until I announced I was leaving that I understood the impact I may have had on them. Knowing my love of taking pictures of the moon (as my instagram will attest), one of my team members (who has since moved on to a new role she will knock out of the park) wrote this poem for me. I can’t think of a better legacy to leave at Accenture–a place brimming with my friends and colleagues, and wonderful memories.

Stay tuned. The best is yet to come…