<p>Career obstacles (especially the big ones) can derail individuals, sometimes forever. Yet others use obstacles to create even greater success, contribution, and career satisfaction. In this Career Cast, Bonnie St. John, para-Olympics’ silver medalist, Director of the National Economic Council in the White House during Clinton administration, business consultant, and author of several books (including How Great Women Lead). In the next CareerCast, Bonnie shares her powerful perspective on how to create success because of a career difficulty, not despite it.</p>

Career obstacles (especially the big ones) can derail individuals, sometimes forever. Yet others use obstacles to create even greater success, contribution, and career satisfaction. In this Career Cast, Bonnie St. John, para-Olympics’ silver medalist, Director of the National Economic Council in the White House during Clinton administration, business consultant, and author of several books (including How Great Women Lead). In the next CareerCast, Bonnie shares her powerful perspective on how to create success because of a career difficulty, not despite it.

Creating Success From a Career Challenge

Chicago Booth believes in life-long career development to help you maintain your professional edge. Through CareerCast, an online, audio recording series, we give alumni and students the chance to hear experts discuss topics such as crafting your story, making an industry or function change, managing employees, taking the entrepreneurial plunge and more. Because these talks are available online, you can access them anytime, anywhere and as often as you want.

You will have the opportunity to submit questions to the speaker in advance of the broadcast. Then check in the third Friday of each month to listen to the interview. For 24 hours after the broadcast, you can submit follow-up questions.

We’ve created a CareerCast webpage for each broadcast where you can get more information about that month’s topic. The page will feature useful links to tools, books, articles and first-hand stories.

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Chicago Booth believes in life-long career development to help you maintain your professional edge. Through CareerCast, an online, audio recording series, we give alumni and students the chance to hear experts discuss topics such as crafting your story, making an industry or function change, managing employees, taking the entrepreneurial plunge and more. Because these talks are available online, you can access them anytime, anywhere and as often as you want. You will have the opportunity to submit questions to the speaker in advance of the broadcast. Then check in the third Friday of each month to listen to the interview. For 24 hours after the broadcast, you can submit follow-up questions. We’ve created a CareerCast webpage for each broadcast where you can get more information about that month’s topic. The page will feature useful links to tools, books, articles and first-hand stories.

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