In a reccent blog post, ECG Management Consultants takes a look at journey of Mark Maydew through his consulting career.
Many roads lead to the consulting profession. For established professionals, the field represents an opportunity to share the expertise they’ve gained over the course of a career. For others, consulting is the first stop after graduate school.
But few consultants take as circuitous a route as the one that Mark Maydew followed. “It’s a little goofy,” the New Mexico native says of the series of circumstances that led him to a career in consulting. Except it doesn’t sound that goofy when he describes it. Atypical, maybe. But Mark’s journey through healthcare has been driven by his desire to help people, leading him from night-shift ER tech to clinic manager and ultimately to a position from which he can effect large-scale change in the industry.
Mark’s healthcare career began when his academic career ended, which happened earlier than he’d intended. “When I first went to college, everyone told me to go to business school,” he says of his time at the University of New Mexico. “I hated it. I didn’t see a way to apply that knowledge in a way that inspired me, and the thought of sitting behind a desk doing the same quarterly reports for the rest of my career just didn’t sit well with me.”
So Mark left school and planned to become a firefighter, which required him to take a basic emergency medical technician (EMT) course. Finding he enjoyed EMT work, Mark put his firefighting ambitions on hold and pursued a more advanced certification.
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