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Can you share a time when someone’s background or perspective helped you see a problem or solution differently ?

Can you share a time when someone’s background or perspective helped you see a problem or solution differently?

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Caitlyn’s Answer

Growing up in Mississippi, I was surrounded by people with very different life experiences and perspectives, which taught me early on the importance of listening and empathizing before jumping to conclusions. One example from work was when I was collaborating with colleagues across different regions and time zones. My initial instinct was to optimize for efficiency and move quickly, but a teammate from a different cultural background helped me realize that success wasn’t just about speed, it was also about building trust, giving space for diverse communication styles, and creating alignment. Their perspective shifted how I approached the project: I slowed down to ensure we created shared understanding, and in the end, that extra investment made the solution far more scalable and widely adopted.
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PwC’s Answer

- Living overseas for a few years as well as working with colleagues around the world, I have learned to watch for subtle cultural queues vs making assumptions. For example, in Switzerland, when you enter a room for a meeting, you walk around and shake hands with everyone vs sitting down first and doing intros.

- I use storytelling on a daily basis when working with my team members. It’s critical for them to understand my journey and how I arrive at the perspectives I am sharing. Creating this relationship between your guidance and your personal experience helps to inspire those around you.

- Within the Advisory Factory we continue to push ourselves to drive better human alignment with agent outputs. As part of this, our Factory team created a patent pending technology that analyzes and clusters human feedback to improve agent outputs over time to ensure those outputs better align with human expectations.
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Living overseas for a few years as well as working with colleagues around the world, I have learned to watch for subtle cultural queues vs making assumptions. For example, in Switzerland, when you enter a room for a meeting, you walk around and shake hands with everyone vs sitting down first and doing intros.
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