My friend and mentor, Mark Miller, tagged me on a LinkedIn post.  Then he  shot me a link on Slack a few months ago.  His words?  “This is someone you have to talk to, Trac”  That person?  Lani Rosales.

Mark was right.  I navigated to her LinkedIn profile and found myself laughing aloud.  Here is the wildly smart and tech savvy Chief Operating Officer for The American Genius being unapologetically authentic.  You can’t help but chuckle when someone uses phrases like “turd waffle” , “entitled potato” or straight up swear.  I followed her instantly.  Over the coming days and weeks, I saw a steady stream of honesty born of passion.  

So many of her LinkedIn messages seem as though she is grabbing you by the shoulders, shaking you, and saying “what the hell are you thinking?” Some of those posts, I could not help but to pile on with her common sense messages, advice, and integrity.

Scrolling through her feed, you will see she lives her life transparently and truly cares about people.  She is larger than life with a keen understanding of the intersection of humans and technology.  Lani is a talented and prolific writer often varying her style from editorial to Op Ed. 

I suppose I  could sum it up by saying a big heart, a big mouth,  from a big state: Texas.