Jessica Vander Ploeg, in her role as vice president of legal operations at Micro Focus, found herself with a new general counsel overnight when her company was acquired by OpenText last year. Soon after, she realized that her new GC had different KPIs than her previous GC.

“It took me four months to accept that my new GC wanted reporting done differently. So, the things that I was reporting just weren’t landing. Although they might have landed with a different person or my previous GC, they weren’t with this GC,” she said.