How to Be Awesome at Your Job

811: How to Lead Positive Change and Grow Your Influence with Alex Budak


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Alex Budak shows you how to initiate change at any level. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Why you don’t need titles to be a leader 

2) The five influence superpowers 

3) How to build your leadership skills–one moment at a time 


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— ABOUT ALEX — 

Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur, faculty member at Berkeley Haas, and the author of Becoming a Changemaker. At UC Berkeley, he created and teaches the transformative course, “Becoming a Changemaker,” and is a Faculty Director for Berkeley Executive Education programs.  

As a social entrepreneur, Alex co‐founded StartSomeGood, and held leadership positions at Reach for Change and Change.org.  He has spoken around the world from Cambodia to Ukraine to the Arctic Circle, and received degrees from UCLA and Georgetown. 

• Book: Becoming a Changemaker: An Actionable, Inclusive Guide to Leading Positive Change at Any Level 

• Changemaker Index: ChangemakerBook.com/index 

• LinkedIn: Alex Budak 

• Website: AlexBudak.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives by Christoher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek

• Book: The Long View: Some Thoughts About One of Life's Most Important Lessons by Matthew Kelly

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