A woman to watch: Andrea Farley
Business Law section chief and Atlanta partner Andrea Farley was profiled in the September/October 2011 Profiles in Diversity Journal’s Women Worth Watching edition.
As a Company and Executive Women Worth Watching 2012 Award Winner, Farley’s photo, corporate profile and mentoring essay were included in this year’s publication.
“For me, work-life balance is not something that I achieve in that ‘aha!’ moment of ‘here’s how you do it.’ Achievement is personal and in order to have professional as well as personal satisfaction, you first have to know what that means for you, which may be different than it is for the person who sits it the office next to you,” she wrote in her essay. “That seems like an easy task, but too many women, and men for that matter, have a difficult time separating their own personal desires from the desires of society, employers, family, etc. I’ve learned that I am personally accountable for my own happiness and that I cannot lay that responsibility on others.”
“Of course, there are times when maintaining that overall perspective is difficult,” she added. “In those times, two things keep me going: a healthy sense of humor that allows me to readily laugh at myself when things don’t go as planned, and something a friend told me, ‘There is a time for everything, it just may not all be today.’”