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“Change is happening so fast that if people aren’t adapting to it and responding to it, and hiring for it, they’re not going to have the people that are going to help them grow and get through the rebound of business that we are in the middle of right now.” - Marti Konstant

In this rapidly changing workplace, today’s guest is helping workers transform themselves, and in turn revamp their workplaces and organizations as a whole. She does this by helping others to cultivate their individual careers and to view workforce development through an agility lens, which expands opportunities for creativity, growth and happiness. 

Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist and the best-selling author of Activate Your Agile Career. She has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a former technology executive from Silicon Valley. She has been featured in media outlets such as NBC Chicago, Levo League, The Muse and has worked with companies like Samsung, Dow Jones and Apple. She is an investor in multiple technology companies and is an expert in applying agile principles to workforce development.

Connect with Marti: https://www.martikonstant.com/

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What You’ll Hear In This Episode: 

• What inspired Marti to do the work she does today, and the valuable lessons she received working with technology companies [1:46]
  
  
• What “A/B testing” your career is - and isn’t [6:42]
  
  
• How to give and receive feedback in a constructive manner [8:06]
  
  
• What Marti believes is management’s role in supporting this type of structure in their workplace [12:36]
  
  
• The reasons that thinking of your career as a series of projects can be really helpful [14:21]
  
  
• What to look for in a work environment that would be more open to having agile employees [16:31]
  
  
• Where Marti sees people stumbling most on their career paths [21:34]
  
  
• The first steps to take if you are interesting in developing your own career agility [28:29]

Additional Links & Resources: 

Marty’s Book, Active Your Agile Career & Her Career Resources and Tools 

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go by Beverly Kaye & Julie Winkle Giulioni

Michelle Travis is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she serves as the Co-Director of USF’s Labor and Employment Law Program. Michelle is an expert on employment discrimination law. She speaks around the country on issues involving sex discrimination, gender stereotypes, and work/family balance. Her recent research focuses on engaging men in women’s leadership initiatives. Her new book, Dads For Daughters: How Fathers Can Give Their Daughters a Better, Brighter, and Fairer Future, is an invitation and guidebook for men who would like to become workplace advocates for gender equality.

Connect with Michelle: https://michelletravis.net

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Kaylee Friedman is a trauma informed psychotherapist, speaker, and mindfulness instructor living in Princeton, New Jersey. She teaches people how to undo a lifetime of cultural, familial, and trauma-related conditioning so that they can unearth and reconnect to their deepest selves. Kaylee uses a variety of tools such as yoga, mindfulness, and reiki to integrate whole-being wellness into her work. She is currently seeing individuals and couples for counseling at Olive Branch Therapy Group via online teletherapy, teaching mindfulness workshops, and can be found on instagram @kayleerosetherapy sharing guided meditations and psychoeducation and at www.olivebranchtherapygroup.com.

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Eleanor Beaton is a women’s leadership mentor and founder of Fierce Feminine Leadership, an organization that helps ambitious women develop the confidence, presence, political savvy and influence they need to smash the glass ceiling and take their seats at the tables where the big deals and big decisions are made. Eleanor is also an award-winning journalist and host of the Fierce Feminine Leadership podcast. She has served as Chair of the Visiting Women's Executive Exchange Program at the Yale School of Management. She currently sits on the boards of Innovacorp and Invest Nova Scotia. 

Eleanor Beaton was the winner of the 2018 Nova Scotia Export Achievement Award: Business of Diversity Champion of the Year. In 2017, she won the prestigious Profiles in Diversity "Women Worth Watching" Award for her work promoting diversity and inclusion. She was also named Canada’s Leadership Coach of the Year by the 2017 Corporate Excellence Awards.

Eleanor has been privileged to serve some of the country’s most recognized women leaders, including Arlene Dickinson, star of CBC’s hit show Dragon’s Den and former Canadian First Lady Margaret Trudeau.    

Contact Eleanor:
www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com
www.adversitymarketing.com
LinkedIn
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Robin is a best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer, facilitator, and retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Robin has taken his life's work of recruiting spies and broken down the art of leadership, communication, and relationship building into Five Steps to TRUST and Six Signs of who you can TRUST. Since 2010, Robin has been working with large corporations as well as small companies in every aspect of their business. Whether it is newly promoted leaders, executives, sales teams, or customer relations, Robin has crafted his People Formula for quick results and maximum success.

In this episode we discuss Dreeke’s simple, six-step system that helps you predict anyone's future behavior based on their words, goals, patterns of action, and the situation at hand. 

You’ll better understand how to:

• quickly and easily determine who they can trust and who they can't
• who is likely to deliver on promises and who will disappoint
• and when a person is vested in your success vs when they are actively plotting your demise. 

With this knowledge you’ll confidently embark on anything from a business venture to a romantic relationship to a covert operation without the stress of the unknown.

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Peopleforumula.com
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/PeopleFormula/
Twitter: @rdreeke
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-dreeke-3a5b8824/

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Stephen Gerringer is the community coordinator for the Joseph Campbell Foundation. In this episode we look at the role of myth in day to day life, the power of storytelling in making sense of our lives and what the hero's journey can teach us.

You can connect with Stephen, the Joseph Campbell foundation and follow the mythic conversation online at Conversation of a Higher Order forums: https://www.jcf.org/resources/discuss/   

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Melissa Fradenburg is passionate about financial knowledge and dedicated to empowering women to take an active role in their financial picture. She is a financial advisor at Pearl Planning in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Connect with Melissa:
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Patrick Veroneau is the founder of Emery Leadership Group. Where he helps individuals and organizations identify and develop leadership and sales behaviors that create world class organizations.

He has combined a deep focus in the areas of influence, emotional intelligence and personality to help individuals and organization develop behaviors that inspire, empower and compel others to follow their lead.

Patrick is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and Harvard Business Review Advisory Board.

He also the host of podcast, Lead Like No Other.

Connect with Patrick:
https://emeryleadershipgroup.com/
Twitter: @coachpatrickv
Instagram: coachpatrickv

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Flip stereotypes and obstacles in your favor. Find and create your unique edge.

Laura Huang is an associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, she was an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her research has been featured in The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes and Nature. She has won a number of awards for her research, including a 2016 Kauffman Foundation Fellowship and was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants. Her speaking and consulting clients include Google, Uber, Blackrock, Eldridge Industries, Keystone, Bionic and the Level Playing Field Institute.

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Learn some of the keys to building, engaging and managing remote teams effectively.

Saleem Siddiqui is a software developer, agile practitioner, and coach. Through a career spanning a few tech boom and bust cycles, he's delivered software for healthcare, retail, government, and pharmaceutical sectors as parts of teams large and small. Lately, his focus has been organizational metamorphosis through microservice architecture -- using tiny pieces of software to cause large changes over time.

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Twitter: @s2il
Web: www.thesaleem.com

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