General counsel of Palo Alto-based SurveyMonkey Eleanor Lacey has jumped around a lot in her career, but “every step had a really good reason behind it,” she said.

Lacey trained as a litigator at Jackson, Tufts, Cole & Black and Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. She picked up corporate training in-house at AutoDesk Inc. and Niku Corp. She focused on business and corporate development at CA Technologies Inc. and SupportSoft Inc.