{"id":1488,"date":"2018-03-08T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:47:52","slug":"sherry-marts-member-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Sherry Marts Member Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sherry A. Marts, PhD<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Founder and CEO of S*Marts Consulting LLC<\/span><\/h1>\n

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What do you aspire to accomplish in your career and why?<\/h4>\n

I want to put myself out of business \u2013 or, at least, out of my current line of business. I work with scientific societies to stop harassment and bullying in professional settings, including meetings and conferences. I will be a happy woman when my services are no longer needed.<\/p>\n

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What key roles have you held during your career?<\/h4>\n

The one I\u2019m most proud of is Founding Executive Director of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences. It was so exciting to be part of a group of brilliant people who wanted to start something new. A close second will be my work as Executive Director of the Genetics Society of America. I took over a very toxic workplace \u2013 lots of gossip and backstabbing and favoritism and years of mismanagement – and turned it around within about six months of my arrival. I remember the day someone remarked that they\u2019d seen one of my employees smiling as she was leaving work \u2013 the first time they\u2019d seen a smile on her face in years.<\/p>\n

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Describe the ally who helped you the most in your professional development:<\/h4>\n

My Ph.D. advisor, who stood up to a lot of pressure from the department chair and other faculty (who wanted me gone) and took me on in his lab after I forced the department to fire the technician who had been sexually harassing and stalking me.<\/p>\n

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What are you currently reading?<\/h4>\n

I\u2019m always reading 3 or 4 books at once. In addition to the stuff I read for my work – right now that includes a thrilling historical tome entitled The Women\u2019s Movement Against Sexual Harassment <\/em>by Carrie N. Baker, and I\u2019m trying to get through The Origins of Totalitarianism<\/em> by Hannah Arendt. I can recommend either or both of those if you are feeling at all cheerful or optimistic, as they will bring you right back down. So, I need a little \u201cmind candy\u201d to counter those effects, and I\u2019m reading the most recent novel in the Maisie Dobbs detective series by Jacqueline Winspear. Every once in a while I find a detective series I like, and I binge-read the entire series, one book right after another. I love the main character in this series, which starts just after World War I has ended, and is now up to the early years of World War II. She is brilliant, brave, resourceful, a self-made businesswoman, and stands up to everyone from skeptical Scotland Yard inspectors to Nazi SS officers. I haven\u2019t found a character quite like this since I binge-read the Phryne Fisher series.<\/p>\n

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What are the most important lessons you\u2019ve learned from your journey so far?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Never assume anything.<\/p>\n

You can have whatever you want, and it probably won\u2019t look anything like what you think it will look like.<\/p>\n

Nothing you\u2019ll have to learn how to do is any harder than what you already know how to do.<\/p>\n

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Sherry A. Marts, PhD Founder and CEO of S*Marts Consulting LLC \u00a0 What do you aspire to accomplish in your career and why? I want to put myself out of business \u2013 or, at least, out of my current line of business. I work with scientific societies to stop harassment and bullying in professional settings, … <\/p>\n

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