The Ladies Living Room Series kicks off with Daisy Wright. Daisy is Chief Encouragement Officer at The Wright Career Solution. She is an award-winning career coach who helps executives, managers, and mid-career professionals tell their career stories, and get hired FASTER! She specializes in career transition and job search coaching, executive resume development, and LinkedIn Profile writing.
Daisy is a certified career development practitioner, certified career management and leadership coach, and certified resume strategist. She is a speaker and author of the Canadian best seller, No Canadian Experience, Eh? A Career Success Guide for New Immigrants, a first-of-its kind resource dedicated fully to addressing the job search plight of internationally trained professionals. Her second book is Tell Stories, Get Hired, and her recent compilation, 21 Resilient Women, Stories of Courage, Growth and Transformation, reached #1 in Women’s Biography and Motivation & Self- Help categories on Amazon.
HIGHLIGHTS
Awards
• Alumni of Distinction - Conestoga College
• Outstanding Employment Interview Strategist
• Outstanding Canadian Career Leader (three times) from Career Professionals of Canada.
UNIFEM (now UN Women), in New York, great experience to understand and work with people from a variety of cultures and cemented my interest in women’s issues.
Nominations
• Zonta Women of Distinction (2011)
• Women of Influence - RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards (2019 & 2020)
Postgraduate certificate in Career Development BA in Public Administration
A former part-time college professor
Launched the Let’s GROW Project in 2016. Back story: It was when Hillary Clinton was running for President. The initiative was simple: to offer one high-value-high-touch career coaching conversation to 2016 women with the hope to that it would encourage and inspire women to step up and own their ambitions.
To work with Daisy, feel free to visit her website: https://www.thewrightcareer.com/meet-daisy/
Also, to receive free copies of her book, you must listen to the whole episode and answer the questions in our stories on Instagram!