THE ABUNDANCE PSYCHE

Like it or not, work politics is something you have to deal with. In this video, I share how to deal with work politics gracefully, drawing out the nature of politics in society and life.  Download the career change blueprint here: theabundancepsyche.com/insiders

How do you navigate corporate politics and position yourself for growth? I speak to Monique Ruff-Bell, Event Director of Money 20/20 Vegas, one of the world's largest Fintech shows, and find out how she has grown her career. Go give her a follow on her YouTube Channel- Everyday Career Coach.

Now, tell me honestly, when you think of career development, what do you think?  While managing people and also working with my students, I have seen a systemic pattern- most of us, when we think about career growth, development and change, instinctively think about career progression. And that's great. Except, career progression and career development are completely different things. Both could meet at some point, but actually, when you are looking at career progression, you are saying, “Today, I'm the sales manager of my company, and tomorrow I want to be the senior sales manager and day after I want to be the head of sales.”   Whereas when you think about career development, you think about the end first. You think about the life of no regrets. You think about “Where do I want to see myself when I am 70, or 80? And how do I want to be retiring?”   If your answer is anything different to the head of sales for North America, when you are already a sales manager, then you need to approach this slightly differently.   #careergrowth #careeradvice #careerdevelopment #careergoals #consulting #managementconsulting #consultingcareers #big4 #pwc #deloitte #bain #kpmg #ey #mckinsey #bcg #mbb #corporatecareers

In today's episode, I talk about the convergence of Science and Spirituality that led me to The Abundance Psyche. If you are interested in biohacking your confidence, download this and get started in 2 minutes.  We talk about yoga, meditation, neuroscience, biochemistry and how all of those fit in to get you to peak performance in your career and life.  #yoga #meditation #spirituality #neuroscience #career #careeradvice #peakperformance #consulting #managementconsulting #pwc #ey #kpmg #deloitte #mbb #mckinsey #datascience #biohacking

I have with me a very special guest, my former colleague from Strategy& Ram Soundarajan. Ram is the CEO and founder of Quber Tech, after having 17 years of industry and consulting experience across continents. He has teamed with a highly accomplished group of entrepreneurs, manufacturing industry veterans, technologists and consultants to launch a SaaS venture focused on serving the manufacturing sector. He cares really about diversity, gender equality, immigration, urban and rural qualities, all these good topics that we are going to cover.   #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #big4 #mbb #pwc #deloitte #ey #kpmg #startup #london #ceo #becomeceo #career #careeradvice #mckinsey #bain #bcg #consultant #managementconsulting #managementconsultant

Doing less requires you to prioritize, to strategize. It’s rarely about “time management”.  But most of us are so busy in our day to day lives, in our careers, in our jobs, that we just don't have the time to look at things strategically because we are trying to “manage time better”.   Stop and ask yourself- What is the direction of travel? Where are we going? Where are we headed to? If you don't know that, you just keep on adding to the pandemic of busy-ness.   And it is indeed a pandemic.   And it's almost worn as this badge of honour.    And I'm going to say enough, that's enough!   Please stop and just see what is happening to you. Because of you being busy 24/7.  Busy-ness, unfortunately, doesn't solve anything. In fact, it does the opposite of solving for things.   Back in the day, when I was in my first job at Deloitte, there were a couple of projects where we were working crazy hours. And this will not come as a surprise to most consultants, you are used to working crazy hours. But I will have to say that because of those crazy hours, we lost not only our creativity but also our sense of logic sometimes, which I only figured out towards the end of the project when I started having more and more space and time. And it wasn't just me, this was for everyone. And this is true every single day of our lives- the more space you have to think the more space you have to be silent, quieten down your mind, the more successful you will be in your career.    Because you have that time now to strategize. Now you suddenly have that time to indeed own your career, like a CEO, like I always talk about.

How to be a successful corporate entrepreneur within Big 4 consulting?  Today's episode is with Sarah Agbantou. And she is the true corporate entrepreneur if you will.   Sarah is a senior manager in product and tech innovation at PwC. She founded Design Thinking for Good, a volunteer-based community, which helps social enterprises to scale with design thinking techniques. Prior to joining PwC, this time around, she was the head of expansion at City Pantry, a food-tech startup, that was bought by Just Eat, and a consultant for the private equity firm called HG Capital in London. She has recently launched 54 Sud, which focuses on helping aspiring entrepreneurs build sustainable ventures in Francophone Africa with practical masterclasses.  

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These are very topical questions in March!  Let's break it down into a few steps in this episode. And if you're feeling stuck in your career, sign-up for the 10 day Career Alignment Bootcamp starting 15th March. Link: https://www.theabundancepsyche.com/corporate-career-change

I have with me, Svenja Tegtmeier. She founded Senguine Suits. She is a fashion and tech entrepreneur. She used to be a management consultant… in fact quite a lot of people, I tend to speak to are former management consultants who are on their entrepreneurship journeys.   Svenja is really passionate about women in leadership. And she wants to bring that to the forefront using her current business.- Senguine Suits.  If you'd prefer the transcript instead, it's on theabundancepsyche.com/blog  #mckinsey #pwc #ey #deloitte #kpmg #bain #bcg #korukids #consultant #managementconsulting #managementconsultant  #careercoach #careeradvice #growthmindset #ceomindset #fashion #entrepreneurship #womeninbusiness #womenempowerment #senguinesuits #fashionista

It’s a question I used to regularly ponder over and have spent countless numbers of hours researching. And what I found was it is good to be the CEO of a company but actually, far more important than that, is how do you become the CEO of your career?  This is a topic that I have been talking quite a lot about this of late because I believe in owning our careers, being the directors of our careers, and indeed, the CEO of our careers, is how you claw back the locus of control and responsibility to yourself. You and only you are responsible for your career.  It is one thing to say you own your own destiny but a totally different thing to approach it as a CEO runs their businesses. This requires you to put in place the key elements that make a successful business in your career.   #mckinsey #pwc #ey #deloitte #kpmg #bain #bcg #korukids #consultant #managementconsulting #managementconsultant  #careercoach #careeradvice #growthmindset #ceomindset #personalfinance #finance