Journal Staff Writer Megan Gleason sits down with our first guests of Outlook on Leadership podcast, Paul Meyer and Cassandra Petrofes. It’s not easy to balance a career and a master’s program, but Paul Meyer and Cassandra Petrofes are doing it anyway. The two are part of different classes of the University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management’s Executive Master’s of Business Administration, which is graduate program designed for business professionals. Meyer just finished his first summer term of the two-year program, and Petrofes graduates in May. Both say they’re getting a world-class education here in New Mexico and have already used the leadership skills learned at UNM in their outside careers. Emerging leaders Meyer and Petrofes have decades of experience under their belts. Meyer has lived all over the country and previously served in the submarine force of the U.S. Navy as a nuclear operator. Now, he works as health physics field coordinator at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Petrofes is a certified public accountant and is the fund administration group at Thornburg Investment Management in Santa Fe.