Ep 6 | Harnessing Fear to Become a Positive Disruptor in the World with Meghan Ogilvie
A person's journey in life doesn't always, or perhaps ever, follow a straight path and how you manage the moments of fear and uncertainty can either motivate you or crush you.
If you want to be a positive disruptor in the world you will need to learn to harness the fear into purpose and view your failures as learnings.
So it helps when your life's work is building and leading an organization that aligns so clearly with your purpose that it seems kismet. That is the story of our amazing guest, Meghan Ogilvie, CEO of Dog Tag Bakery.
On this episode, we're going to talk about...
🎙 Finding your purpose to become a positive disruptor in the world.
🎙 Building an innovative, sustainable, mission-focused business model.
🎙 Developing impact-focused metrics to drive your organization's outputs.
If you are on your journey to find purpose or just love inspiring stories, don't miss this episode! 🙌❤🌍
Meghan Ogilvie is Chief Executive Officer of Dog Tag Inc (DTI), a 501c3 that empowers service-disabled veterans, military spouses, and caregivers through an innovative five-month fellowship program. Hired as DTI's first employee in 2012, Meghan partnered with DTI's co-founders to bring their shared vision to life: to create a place that equips transitioning veterans and military families with knowledge, skills, and confidence to pursue their career goals, post service.
Meghan assumed the role of CEO in 2015 and oversees all aspects of DTI's unique, multi-faceted social enterprise including: managing the Fellowship program, growing Dog Tag Bakery, and guiding the development and implementation of DTI's long-term strategic vision. As of January 2022, Dog Tag has continue to build out our growth playbook by running fellowships in two cities: Washington, DC, and Chicago.
Prior to joining Dog Tag, Meghan spent several years working in finance in New York; first in equities with Lehman Brothers and Barclays and later within executive management at Macquarie Group.
Meghan comes from a military family, with both her father and sister graduating from the Naval Academy and serving in the United States Marine Corps. In 2017, Meghan Ogilvie was accepted as a Presidential Leadership Scholar and a recipient of the U.S. Army's Outstanding Civilian Service Award.
The following year, Meghan as named 2018 Rising Star by the Washington Business Journal.
Connect with Meghan:
On her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghan-ogilvie-95681251/
Connect with me:
On my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jess-merrell/
On my company: https://onedegreeimpact.com/category/uncategorized/
🚨 Register for the show here: https://tinyurl.com/FutureofImpact
