Women in Security 2022: Michelle La Plante, Deere & Company
Michelle La Plante, Global Security Manager at Deere & Company, taps into her entire career path thus far to give her a solid, well-rounded, holistic view of risk and intelligence.
When Michelle La Plante embarked on her career as a lawyer, she never would have imagined ending up in corporate security. Yet every twist and turn in La Plante’s story has led her to where she is today and given her a strong, solid view of security, risk and intelligence.
“I spent the first half of my career working at a firm and in-house counsel,” La Plante shares. Then, La Plante’s husband took a job working for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow; La Plante quit practicing law and took a job working for the U.S. State Department as an analyst for the economic unit in Russia.