Advisor Spotlight: Cooper City...by VP Landon

            Lauren Mandel graduated from Cooper City High School and its DECA chapter in 2008.  Little did she know, it would not be her last year with Cooper City DECA…  After attending various Florida DECA CDC’s and even two ICDC’s her four year DECA membership attributed to her decision to become a marketing major at Florida State University.  Her desire to continue building upon her foundations from DECA did not stop here; she proceeded to receive a MBA in Finance from Nova Southeastern University.  Utilizing the many skills accrued through DECA and her post-secondary education, she moved to New York and worked within Morgan Stanley’s Private Banking Team.  After two years at this position, she came back to Florida to follow her dreams of becoming a teacher. Being offered the position of head advisor of the Cooper City DECA and Academy of Finance teacher was one she could not turn down. Leading the high school organization that had so greatly influenced her education and life skills, Lauren is now instilling the knowledge she gained to be successful in DECA competition and in the workforce onto her students.

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