Meet Diana Vincent. With an impressive career starting with Google in 2005 and spanning multiple countries, Diana now resides in Edmonton and brings her expertise in business, advertising and linguistics to the University of Alberta as a senior digital strategist.
What is your first U of A memory?
Taking my then five-year-old son for his tennis lessons at Saville. All the while and throughout the season, I was thinking how wonderful it would have been if I had access to such a wonderful facility when I was growing up. I grew up in India and played tennis competitively, but I had access to very few courts, and even fewer well-maintained courts, in a very crowded and highly competitive market.
What’s something your coworkers don’t know about you?
Funny story. I married my husband twice — no divorce involved — and I’d like to leave it at that for now. 😀
What’s your favourite distraction?
Traveling and playing tennis have always been my favourite distractions, but more recently I’ve been interested in sportfishing.
If you were enrolling in one course, program or degree right now, what would it be?
Ideally, my next step would be enrolling in a PhD in marketing, but since I can’t take time off to pursue a full-time PhD, I’m more realistically considering enrolling in the MACT program.
You can invite anyone — alive or dead, real or fictional — to dinner. Who would it be?
That will be a tie between Martina Hingis and Meryl Streep.
If you could see any live performance tomorrow, what would it be?
ABBA.
What advice would you give your 18-year-old self?
Work less, travel more and just have and be more fun.
What’s one thing you can’t live without?
My family, of course. My husband and best friend, Romell; my seven-year-old son Derek; and my almost three-year-old cat, Emma.
What three words describe your U of A experience?
Work-life balance.
Do you have any upcoming projects or initiatives you are looking forward to at work?
I look forward to developing the digital governance framework that I’ve just started working on, as well as, optimizing both the undergraduate and graduate program websites for better overall user experience and conversions.
