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IPC COMMUNITY 39 FALL 2023 them to work more closely with our employee base." Carlisle often hired refugees looking for their first job in the United States. With the training team's help, they built custom materi- als to help students who were learning English as a second language that could help them integrate into the facility and their new sur- roundings. That training involved a variety of products, including aerospace, medical, RF, and NPI builds that required specific skills from oper- ators. "For instance, they would solder 38- to 40-gauge wire—very, very small stuff—and they would have to use different equipment and tools than, say, board areas building harnesses for airplanes." Remembering that Brandy isn't one to sit still, training wasn't always enough. Her phi- losophy is that to really train others, you must have done the job yourself. "I went into training pretty naturally," she says, "but honestly, I'm a big believer that whenever you tell someone about a task they need to do, you should have some under- standing of how to do it yourself. It may seem simple to assign someone a task, but if you're not aware of everything that's involved, you won't know how to properly set them up to succeed. Do they have the right tools? Did I give them the right type of knowledge to complete this? How often do I need to check in?" Not only has she worked with people from different backgrounds and life experiences, she has learned how to work with different personalities and approaches to learning. "You see how they interact with others, and you learn what works," she says. As a member of industry, Brandy worked closely with IPC standards committees. In her current role at IPC, she's working with IPC's Brandy's thoughts on Passion "When I was growing up, I developed a passion for helping others. We worked in a community garden. We fished and then shared the extra with older peo- ple in the neighborhood. I grew up in a very low-in- come area and people didn't have a lot, but if you had more than you needed, you shared." "It was instilled in me from my grandfather that you help other people. Just seeing what I was able to do from sitting on that hand-soldering line to learning how to run the machines, solder, rework and repair, then going into the training department and continuing to grow until I was lead- ing a department with 110 people—that has improved my life so much. It really lets me know that there is a way to do this, and I'm very passionate about giving people that opportunity." Brandy with Dawn Cabales and Tawsha Arnold at IPC APEX EXPO.