Leveling Up

Our Guest: Abadesi Osunsade, Founder & CEO of HustleCrew

In this episode, Abadesi Osunsade, Founder & CEO of HustleCrew, speaks her mind about how companies are approaching belonging and inclusivity in the workplace, specifically after the recent Black Lives Matter Movement, as well as what we can do to understand bias, foster inclusion, and support underrepresented employees. Abadesi details steps you can take to incorporate training into your organization’s priorities and budget, along with insight into how to start that conversation in your workplace.

Conversation Highlights

- Companies’ reactions to the 2020 BLM Movement

- Why Abadesi started HustleCrew

- About HustleCrew’s products

- Steps your organization can take to include diversity and inclusion training in your budget

- The significance of focusing on the greater purpose of workplace culture evolution

- How to start a conversation around equality and inclusion with your team

- The importance of taking care of yourself

In this week's episode of Leveling Up, Mary speaks with three incredible industry leaders.

Grant Goodale, the co-founder, and CTO at Convoy, a fully connected freight marketplace that uses machine learning and automation connect shippers and carriers.

Neela Campbell, director of people and operations at HIMS and Hers, a telehealth service for men's wellness and care, providing treatment options for hair loss, ED, and more.

And Jamie Ceglarz, the owner of the executive recruitment firm

Guild Talent, executive search & leadership hiring for venture-backed companies.

Our three guest experts share with us how their organizations are adapting to the global pandemic caused by the coronavirus. We covered topics around recruitment, onboarding, and preparing our workforces for a more distributed future and much more.

[1:03] Meet Grant, Neela, and Jamie

[4:52] Why go remote-first and how did you adjust?

[8:34] Working remotely and its effects on management teams [12:37] Is remote working here to stay?

[14:33] How working remotely effects the employee experience [18:29] How has the onboarding process changed?

[22:04] Could we become a results-driven workforce?

[26:05] How working remote effects inclusivity

[29:28] Synchronous vs asynchronous

[32:41] How could remote working affect salaries?

[36:47] What have we learned over the last few months?

To connect with Grant Goodale:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggoodale/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggoodale?lang=en

Website: https://convoy.com/

To connect with Neela Campbell:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neela-campbell-08861098/

Website: https://www.forhims.com/

To connect with Jamie Ceglarz:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-ceglarz-6994355/

Website: https://guildtalent.com/

To Connect With Mary Fox:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marybfox/

Website: https://getmarlow.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/getmarlow

David Mann, People Partner at Google, joined us to discuss how leaders can hold their team members accountable while also being empathetic to shifting personal needs and priorities.

Episode 26: Professional Development During COVID-19 (Mary Fox & Chelsea Seid of Marlow) by Leveling Up

Developing your skills in presentations and public speaking can influence your overall confidence, career direction, and even business trajectory.

In today’s episode, we join TED X speaker, speech coach, and entrepreneur Danish Dhamani to talk about specific ways to master public speaking skills, for example, through adjusting your pacing, using wider gestures, and analyzing the filler words.

Danish is a co-founder and CEO of Orai, an AI speech coach app that helps individuals and teams sound more confident, compelling and concise.

Reach Danish at:

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @DanishDhamani

Instagram: danish.d

Learn more about Orai:

Orai website: www.orai.com

In this episode, Samantha talks about the importance of using LinkedIn to share your personal brand in a more intentional way.

Samantha’s Bio: Samantha is a personal branding expert, who focuses on the development of resumes, interview and career coaching, and LinkedIn promotion. She has worked with over 9,000 clients in over 47 states and around the world.

Her well-known ‘Dear Sam’ column is published in 20+ newspapers across the country and appears weekly in the L.A. Times, Columbus Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Advocate, the Oklahoman, and others.

Learn more about Samantha at Nolan Branding's website.

Read her Dear Sam Column.

This week, we sat down with Katie Fogarty to discuss how you can get the most out of your LinkedIn profile.

Katie has built a career helping professionals, organizations and businesses tell their story. Prior to launching The Reboot Group, Katie wrote for morning TV news, global PR firm clientele and for a U.S. Senator. Today, she’s passionate about helping people and businesses create communication strategies and content that catapults development, grows brands and delivers engaged fans. Katie works one-on-one with clients through her signature LinkedIn Reboot and Reboot for Business. She also consults, trains and speaks on career branding, LinkedIn and job hunting

Episode 22 - Creative Problem Solving with Dr. Amy Climer by Leveling Up

Our Guests: Julie Koenke, Executive Director of the Great Lakes College and Career Pathways Partnership at ConnectED: The National Center for College and Career

In this episode, Julie Koenke details the meaning, importance, and implementation of collaborative leadership, emphasizing systems where all voices can be heard, building a vision together, and consistent improvement. We discuss the differences between leadership and management, building confidence in your leadership qualities, navigating team meetings, ways we can prepare students for the workforce, and so much more!

Conversation Highlights

Collaborative leadership impacting team dynamics and confidence

Steps you can take to create and support a collaborative culture

Ways to implement a collaborative leadership structure

Tips for being an active listener

The differences between leadership and management

How to foster courageousness in yourself

Finding joy in your work

How to run effective meetings and to be a powerful attendee in a meeting

Preparing students for the workforce

The generational and cultural divide in leadership

Julie’s advice to her younger self

Resources

Thinking Collaborative: https://www.thinkingcollaborative.com/

The School Reform Initiative: https://www.schoolreforminitiative.org/

The National Equity Project: https://www.nationalequityproject.org/

Malcom Gladwell’s Podcast: http://revisionisthistory.com/

Margaret Wheatley: https://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/life.html

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo: https://www.robindiangelo.com/publications/

Brené Brown: https://daretolead.brenebrown.com/

About Our Guest

Julie Koenke is an experienced director with a demonstrated history of working

in education administration focused on creating equitable outcomes for all young people, especially for young people positioned furthest from opportunity. Julie believes deeply in our collective responsibility to provide high quality, accessible and free public education to all young people regardless of the zip code in which they reside. Julie is skilled in nonprofit organizations, staff development, educational leadership, leadership development, youth development and grant writing. Julie is a creative thinker, problem-solver, and skilled collaborator with both a Bachelor and Master's degree in Fine Arts.

Connect with Julie Koenke

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-koenke-7a04b246/

ConnectED: The National Center for College and Career: https://connectednational.org/

About Marlow

Marlow is where leading professionals at all stages in their career go to refine the core professional skills and habits that matter most. We combine in-house expert coaches with interactive resources to ensure a personalized coaching experience for each member. Marlow coaches partner with employees at companies of all sizes — from 20 team members to enterprise corporations. We’re coaching people all over the world and have the capacity to scale with your team’s needs.

Connect with Marlow

Listen to our podcast: https://www.levelingup.co/

Visit our website: https://www.getmarlow.com/

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/getmarlow

Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/getmarlow

Find us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/getmarlow

Connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getmarlow/

This week, Chelsea hosted Lizzie Azzolino, talent consultant and coach at Until Now, for a discussion on career transitions.

Lizzie is the Founder & Principal at Until Now, where she brings a design thinking approach to working with leaders to create talent and culture strategies for the modern workplace.

Links to Learn More:

www.untilnow.co