Adrienn Simon
Adrienn Simon
About · website edition

Before
We Meet

A few things a résumé probably won’t tell you.

Most people introduce themselves through experience: where they worked, what they studied, the roles they held and the projects they delivered.

Those things matter. What may be more useful before we meet is knowing how I tend to see things.

I’m naturally curious about what sits behind the obvious answer. When a process works a certain way, I want to know why. When everyone seems to be following the same route, I usually wonder what other routes exist. When two subjects are kept in separate boxes, I’m interested in what happens where they meet.

That curiosity has taken me through finance, international operations, people and HR, process improvement, technology, career questions and creative projects. From the outside, the topics can look unrelated. To me, they often lead back to the same thing: understanding how the pieces connect and whether there might be a clearer, simpler or more useful way to arrange them.

I like complexity, as long as I can take it apart. I like ideas, especially when they can become something real. And I’m much more interested in a good question than in pretending I already know the answer.

A question about careers can become a tool. A business problem can reveal a wider system. Research can turn into a project. Sometimes an idea even becomes music.

What if we looked at this differently?

Different subjects. Different formats. The same curiosity underneath. That is usually where the interesting part begins.

This page can change.

Some projects will disappear, new questions will take their place, and I hope the way I see the world will keep evolving too. This is not a finished definition of who I am. It is a snapshot of how I think now.

But how did I get here?

Career Memoir

A visual story of the roads, questions and places that shaped how I see work and life.

Enter My Journey