Aly Merritt is a former
copy editor with a residual
addiction to journalism.
She is currently a product
manager at SalesLoft, and
sporadically blogs at www.
AlyintheATL.com.
Working It!
The Entrepreneurs, Executives and Businesswomen of ASC
An Interview with Kate Gremillion & Tallia Deljou
Co-founders, Mavenly + Co
By Aly Merritt
If you’ve ever reached an impasse
in your career and said, “Well, that’s
not quite what I thought it would be.
Is this what I want? What’s next?”
Then you may want to check out
Mavenly + Co.
Mavenly assists professional women
considering career transitions to find
the fulfilling and engaging work that’s
the right fit for them. With immersive
two-day career crafting workshops,
Mavenly helps women map out their
career path, and gives them the tools
and resources to build the right habits
to reach those goals.
A maven is “a trusted expert in a
particular field, who seeks to pass
knowledge on to others. It comes
from a Hebrew word, meaning ‘one
who understands,’ based on an
accumulation of knowledge.” And
Atlanta Social Club members Kate
and Tallia certainly are ones who
understand — they know first-hand
how difficult it is when those best-laid
career plans you’d set out just aren’t,
well, working for you anymore.
Kate says she had her own breakdown
when her post-college plan didn’t live
up to its hype. After spending a year
as a travel consultant for her sorority,
she moved into the “big girl job”
she’d always aimed for: a PR agency
with “great coworkers and top-notch
clients.” It was everything she thought
she wanted ... and she hated it. So she
moved into a position that gave her
more flexibility, and started talking to
other successful women about how
they found their passions, and what
made it work.
Kate began discussing things with
her friend Tallia, who had also been a
travel consultant for the sorority. With
a master’s degree in organizational
psychology, Tallia was taking a more
academic route, but was still facing
exactly the same career problem,
and had the same questions. The two
started having long talks about the
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