She’s not frenetic and doesn’t keep busy just for the sake of it. She’s crazy busy and yet somehow radiates a steady energy. She later moved over to the mobile division, then operating systems, and now is a senior director of program managers in Surface. Lemson started as a tester on the Outlook team and then moved to program management for Microsoft Exchange Server. “More like a bull in a china shop,” she said, laughing. Even so, she’s less interested in being on trend than she is in having a “helluva lot of fun.”Īfter 19 years and roughly 10 roles at Microsoft, Lemson is a visionary, a kind of social instigator, and a tech artiste-something of a corporate pioneer who blazes her own trail. Her antics and adventures have helped rouse employee spirit and cultivate social media intrigue. KC Lemson’s superpower is a sixth sense for finding zeitgeist moments at Microsoft, time and time again, somehow without even trying. I get the sense that standing at her sit-down desk, racing to tackle just one more thing, is par for Lemson’s course. The day I met with her, she stood hunched over her desk, typing rapidly. Lemson is the mastermind behind Microsoft’s ninja cat meme-a beloved grassroots movement that unified employees-as well as many other company moments and memorable missives. Because the best way to overcome being socially awkward is to announce it and just own it so that people understand when I’m weird.” “Don’t forget, I’m totally socially awkward so that should totally come across in the story. That’s not my observation she told me that about herself in an email.
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