Laura Kucera: “Whether female or male, the advice I would give here is the same — if you want your team to thrive, give them the authority to feel empowered and the room to grow”

Whether female or male, the advice I would give here is the same — if you want your team to thrive, give them the authority to feel empowered and the room to grow. I’ve talked about this before in a LinkedIn Blog I wrote on the role of leadership where I really emphasize that a good leader leverages the talents and individuality of her team to shine and even sometimes break new ground together. I think Steve Jobs really said it best, “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they will tell us what to do.”

I had the pleasure of interviewing Laura Kucera. Laura is a principal and Chief Marketing Officer at Citrin Cooperman, a nationally recognized, top-25 assurance, tax, and business advisory firm headquartered in NYC with…