Emily Verrett Has Lots of Management Experience

Emily Verrett is without a doubt a very successful young woman. She has held several remarkable management positions before she was thirty. Emily Verrett will probably point to her internship in Washington D.C. as the starting point of her career.

As an undergrad student, Emily Verrett was accepted into the Bill Archer Fellowship program where she spent a semester internship working in Former First Lady Laura Bush’s office in the White House. She loved Washington D.C. so much she decided to return to D.C. in 2004 where she began work at Denny Miller Associates. 

As a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Emily Verrett’s initial position at the lobbying firm was entry level position. Much of the work she did was small tasks like answering phones, writing brief documents, and doing general research. However, Emily Verrett’s exemplary leadership skills tenacious motivation enabled her to quickly rise to the position of Operations and Events Manager. In this position, Emily Verrett oversaw more than 20 political fundraisers.

In 2006, Emily Verrett decided to leave Washington D.C. and the political environment. She returned home to Texas and she started work as a Project Manager and Events Manager for Gerson Lehrman Group in Austin, Texas, one of the largest primary research firms in the U.S. In her capacity as Project and event Manager, Emily Verrett was responsible for overseeing more than 250 events annually. Emily Verrett was proud of her position and held this position for three years until she decided to pursue her MBA at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.

In 2009, Emily Verrett found work at AT&T. It is at AT&T where she continues to work today. Emily Verrett once again holds a position managing a team. Together with her current team of 18 sales professions, Emily Verrett is responsible for over $1.8B in annual revenue.