Extract from Blair Cohen’s article “Building a Professional Partnership with Cristin Traylor and Sara Skeens on Stellar Women”
So many of us have that go-to person at workâthe one who completes our dynamic duo. For a time at McGuireWoods, one such duo was Cristin Traylor and Sara Skeens.
You may know Sara as the ESI Ninja and Cristin from her 20+ years in the industry. When they work together, theyâre even more amazing.
For my first solo-hosted episode of Stellar Women, I sat down with these two to learn more about how they work together to help move the needle for their clients and their careers.Â
Blair:Â Your relationship with each other literally bridged two teams together at McGuireWoodsâand when I say literally, they were separated by a physical bridge. Traditionally, there is a little bit of a disconnect between the attorney side and the tech side. What helped you both eliminate that?
Sara: I loved going across that bridgeâthat was my favorite part of my day, skipping across to Cristinâs side.
Cristin: And I loved having her there. I made a space in my office. I had a large office with a table so that we could have meetings in there. So she would come over and hang out at the table, kind of like her own satellite office. It was great because, as I was working on something, I could throw out a question to her: âHey, what do you think about this?â or âI’m trying to do this. I’m not really sure how. Can you help me?â And she would jump right in and help. We could just have conversations throughout the day about what needed to be done.
