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Interview with Amazon Bestselling Author Margot Sandy

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Margot Sandy is an Amazon Bestselling Author who is currently traveling the world while running an entrepreneurial enterprise (In The Now, LLC) with a focus on engineering consulting, mentoring students with the next steps in their careers and public speaking. Previously, she was part of the Brookstone Lab as a Senior Mechanical Engineer after years of developing consumer products in cross-functional teams as a Product Development Engineer at Fisher-Price. In both positions, she gained nearly 10+ years' experience with the inter-workings of public and private companies that had revenues of over 6 billion dollars and over 100 million dollars. We have conducted an interview with Margot. How long have you been working in cross-functional teams? I have been working in cross-functional teams in New Product Development for 10+ years now. These types of inter-disciplinary teams are a great melding of different product perspectives. Each area has their own verbiage and viewpo...