Disrupt Your Career

Our guest in this episode is Michelle Gadsden-Williams, award-winning global diversity executive, author, activist, producer and philanthropist with more than 25 years of experience as an advocate for equality within corporate America and a thought leader around diversity and inclusion. Michelle is a seasoned diversity practitioner with experience working in the consumer goods, pharmaceutical and financial services industries before transitioning to professional services in 2017. She is the author of the award-winning book, CLIMB, a professional playbook offering guidance to women in the workplace.   

We connected with Michelle as we wanted to hear her perspective on the topics of talent management, careers and inclusion and diversity. In our conversation, we talk about what attracted her to the field of diversity, her advice to a college student, the role of mentors and sponsors, her most challenging career transition, and how the journey of inclusion and diversity has evolved over the years.

Links from the episode: 

• Michelle’s Linkedin profile
• Michelle’s book Climb
• John Lewis: Good Trouble – Official Trailer

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Our guest in this episode is Henna Inam, founder and CEO of Transformational Leadership Inc.  Henna helps leaders thrive in disruption as an Executive Coach, Board Director, Author and Speaker.

A former C-level executive, Henna led through disruption at Fortune 500 consumer and healthcare companies in innovation, marketing and general management roles. In addition to her corporate experience, Henna serves as a Board Director for Engro Corporation. She is the author of Wired for Authenticity and Wired for Disruption, published last month. 

We wanted to reconnect with Henna who has been a great supporter of our work and book around career disruption. In our conversation with Henna we talk about what inspired her to tackle the subject of disruption and write her new book. Henna introduces the idea of neuro-emotional agility and the five shifts in agility which she presents in her book. We also talk about her views of how companies are creating more agility, and the topic of crucible experiences that she is now exploring. Listen in, and get ready to be disrupted!  

Links from the episode: 

• Henna’s website 
• Henna’s new book Wired for Disruption
• Henna’s Linkedin profile

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Our guest in this episode is Edie Goldberg, President of E.L. Goldberg & Associates in Menlo Park, California. She is a nationally recognized expert in HR and talent management strategy and organizational effectiveness. Prior to starting her own firm 19 years ago, she was a Global Thought Leader in the Human Capital Practice for Towers Perrin.  She is the co-author of The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity (LifeTree Media, April, 2020).  Edie earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Albany, SUNY.  She is the recipient of HR People + Strategy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology. She currently serves on the board of the SHRM Foundation and is an advisor to start-ups in Internal Talent Mobility.

We connected with Edie as we saw many intersections between our views on career management and the need for organizations to take a more innovative approach. In this conversation, we talk about Edie’s own career path, her new book The Inside Gig, moving mindsets from talent scarcity to talent abundance, how to create a new “Talent Operating Model” and what advice she has for Gen Z talent starting their careers.  

Links from the episode:
• Edie’s website
• Edie’s new book The Inside Gig
• Edie’s Linkedin profile

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Our guest in this episode is Gib Bulloch, speaker, writer, and consultant. A self-described ‘Corporate Insurgent’, Gib believes passionately in the power of business to change the world and in the power of the individual to change the world of business.

After an early career spent at BP and Mars, Gib's epiphany came from a year as a business volunteer with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in the Balkans in 2000. Over the following 15 years, Gib founded and scaled Accenture's global 'not-for-loss' consulting business, Accenture Development Partnerships. He left Accenture in 2016 to write his first book, 'The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent' and to explore new ways of supporting purpose driven insurgencies within the corporate world. 

We connected with Gib as we saw a lot in common around our work on radical career shifts, especially the 'Profit to purpose' transition. We talk about his epiphany that led him to launch Accenture’s Development Partnerships, what it means to be a corporate insurgent, the new initiative he is leading to create a business “decelerator” on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, and much more.  

Links from the episode: 

·       Gib’s website 

·       Gib’s book The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent

·       Gib’s Linkedin profile

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Our guest in this episode is Paolo Gallo, Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach and Author.

Over the last 30 years, Paolo has been Chief Human Resources Officer at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Chief Learning Officer at The World Bank in Washington DC, and Director of Human Resources at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development in London.

Paolo currently spends his time coaching and consulting to high-level individuals and organizations, but also makes time to volunteer to ensure that all humans can access learning, development and fulfilment in their careers. His best-selling book, The Compass and The Radar, has sold numerous copies across the world and in multiple languages.

We connected with Paolo because we saw so much in common in our quest to ensure that everyone get the chance to get career alignment. We talk with him here about integrity and moral compass, how he defines success and alignment of values in careers, and what vision he has of the future of the workplace.

Links from the episode:

• Paolo’s website – learn more about Paolo’s book, speaking engagements and coaching and career services.
• Questions from Frankenstein – Paolo’s talk at a TEDxRoma event.
• Paolo’s Linkedin profile

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Our guest in this episode is Deepak Jayaraman, Founder and CEO of Transition Insight. As an Executive Coach and Leadership Advisor, Deepak works with successful senior executives and helps them play to their unique potential by working with them closely during phases of high stakes transition. Deepak is also the prolific author and curator of Play to Potential Podcast, which includes interviews with people across diverse backgrounds and conversations around Leadership, Transitions and Careers.

We found many parallels between Deepak’s coaching and consulting work and ours, but were deeply impressed with his extensive and highly segmented, user-friendly podcast archive. From philosophy from Gandhi to speculation on most popular transition topics, we hope you will enjoy this conversation with Deepak as much as we did.

Links from the episode:

• Transition Insight – the objective of Deepak’s consulting firm is to enable leaders to be thoughtful about transitions.
• Play to Potential podcasts – a bouquet of curated conversations around leadership, transitions and careers with easy access to specific nuggets of interest and relevance.
• Deepak’s Linkedin profile
• Antarang Foundation – an India-based foundation that envisions a world in which every young person is passionately, productively, and positively engaged in a career of their choice.

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Our guest in this episode is Adrian Choo, recognized as The Career Strategist. We’ve known Adrian for some time now. We have a lot in common in terms of the work we do around careers and we also have some contrasts.

After an extraordinary career in business, headhunting and outplacement, Adrian set up his own enterprise, Career Agility, whose mission is to “Empower Individuals to attain Personal Happiness through Career Clarity”.

We thought it would be fun to sit down with Adrian, who is based in Singapore, and does work across the world. He is a thinker, a writer, a coach, an active player in the career changing community and has many insights to share. We hope you enjoy this interview and look forward to your comments.

To learn more about Career Agility

To try CAROL and get a free career diagnostic report

To read Adrian’s book Career Crossroads

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Our guest in this episode is Jennifer Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD.

Earlier in the summer, we had the immense good fortune to spend some time talking to the wonderful Jennifer about her book, Couples That Work, published in October this year.

We wanted to talk to her not only about her book but about the crossover points between her work and ours. We talk about career breaks and how to survive them, about who gets the power and deciding how to share-out career priorities and about the importance of contracting in a couple.

We hope you enjoy this interview and look forward to your comments.

To read the full interview transcript

To find Jennifer Petriglieri

To order Couples that Work

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We’re pleased to share our chat with Jos Akkermans. Jos is Associate Professor of Sustainable Careers and Organizational Behavior in the department of Management and Organization at VU Amsterdam. In our conversation, Jos shares his views on career crafting, micro-transitions, identify shift as we change and more.

In this episode, we chat with Jos Akkermans, an academic and expert on Sustainable Careers, who is passionately focused on younger people’s careers and how to help not only his students, but also society at large to find better opportunities to “craft” the career path that is right for them.

Jos began life in a small country town in the Netherlands, and chose to study Psychology at Utrecht University, where he ended up doing his PhD on young people’s vocational careers and began his teaching work in Business and Management.

Since then, Jos has juggled the responsibilities of teaching with research and publication across a number of commercial and academic journals, moved up and across the hierarchy of different academic institutions, and even managed fifteen years as a local dance teacher!  His argument is that work should be fun as well as useful, and he is a master of his portfolio, without any doubt.

He not only teaches his students about careers as a subject, but advises them on their own careers, so he is taking a truly holistic approach in his teaching. The research Jos does, in collaboration with universities and companies across the world, examines career changers of many types, and he tells us about his more recent findings, as well as what is coming up next. Like us, he has the hope that the corporate world will wake up and do more and better talent management at a grass roots level, and we hope to continue this conversation into the coming months and years.

How to find Jos Akkermans

https://www.josakkermans.com/

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