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How do you create a more inclusive workspace? For over 25 years, Dr. Steve Yacovelli has been training organizations like Fortune 500 Greats, The Walt Disney Company, and Bayer AG, and amazing not-for-profits like The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

Dr. Steve Yacovelli is the author of the award-winning book Pride Leadership: Strategies for the LGBTQ+ Leader to be the King or Queen of their Jungle.

Dr. Steve Yacovelli (“The Gay Leadership Dude™”) is the Owner & Principal of  TopDog Learning Group, LLC – a learning and development, leadership, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting firm based in Orlando, FL, USA, with affiliates across the globe. He has a mission to create more inclusive workplaces, and in this episode, we talk about: 

1. The 6 Competencies of Inclusive and effective leadership
2. How to maintain authenticity in a virtual environment
3. What you can do immediately to create a more inclusive workplace - with real examples!
4. What leaders and learning and development professionals can do to create a more 

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

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• Keynote Speaking
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What do you do when someone steals your idea? This isn't legal advice; this is strategy.  In this episode, I discuss: 

• The difference between competition and a copycat
• How to use inspiration but not plagiarize
• The 4 main things you need to think about when someone copies you
• Why it may be different if you are a freelancer and how to take precautions
• How to address the copycat
• What I did when someone recently stole from me

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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It’s the morning of the interview, and you are a little nervous but feel good. You’ve studied and planned your outfit even though they will only see you from the waist up. 

You think you are prepared; however, are you ready? In this episode, I discuss: 

• Interview questions you need to know
• Nail your career narrative 
• Tips for getting your space prepared
• The best ways to practice
• Why you need to be both ready and prepared
• How to get prepare your mindset 

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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Rob Volpe, an award-winning author of Tell Me More About That: Solving the Empathy Crisis One Conversation at a Time and CEO of Ignite 360 where he leads a team of insights, strategy, and creative professionals that serve the world’s leading brands across a range of industries like Facebook, Pepsi, Ulta Beauty, Hershey’s, Whole Foods, and Microsoft. 

As a thought leader in the role of empathy in marketing and the workplace, he is a contributor to Entrepreneur’s Leadership Network. He frequently speaks on the topic at conferences, corporations, colleges, podcasts, and with the media.  He is a Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications graduate and lives in San Francisco with his husband and 3 cats.

In this episode, we discuss the following: 

• The 5 Steps to Empathy
• Misconceptions about empathy 
• How to use empathy at work with colleagues or clients or in a job interview
• Tips on how to use self-empathy when it comes to refreshing your career

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Get the book, Tell Me More About That, a silver award winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards for Best Self-Help Book of 2022!  

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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Simply stated, scarcity is the belief that there isn't enough to go around and you most certainly are not going to get a fair share. In this episode: 

• Understand how scarcity thinking impacts  money, work, time, and career opportunities
• Learn 3 mindset tools to bust scarcity thinking
• Get my best morning mindset practice to catch scarcity mindset before it starts

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You can download my Belief Builder worksheet HERE to help you get started on busting scarcity thinking.

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
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Frameworks are an effective way to bring clarity to situations and initiatives. Knowing how to organize your thoughts, think strategically, make effective decisions, and create alignment with others is the fastest way to build trust and elevate your executive presence. In this episode, I share: 

• Why frameworks create calm and clarity
• How frameworks build trust and eliminate bias
• 4 effective Frameworks for Thinking
• Why frameworks work for your career strategy, from interviews to networking

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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Rishad Tobaccowala is a business strategist, thought leader, and the author of Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data, published by Harper Collins. Rishad is working on his second book, “ Re-Thinking Work” which McGraw-Hill will publish in 2024. Additional writings can be found in the “The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past”, read by 25,000 leaders worldwide every week. 

Rishad most recently was the Global Strategist and Chief Growth Officer of the 100,000-person marketing and business transformation Publicis Groupe and has been named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators.”

In this episode, we discuss:  

• How his degree in Advanced Mathematics led to a career in Business Transformation
• Where he gets inspiration
• How to leverage practical tools and techniques to stay relevant
• How to tell Truth to Power in your organization
• How aspiring authors can rethink the math and model of content monetization 
• How to become a thoughtful content creator 
• The difference between jobs and work
• How not to outsource your future

Delivered with clarity and humor, it’s an honor to present Rishad Tobaccowala on The Career Refresh. 

Connect with Rishad Tobaccowala

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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Today’s job market requires being both ready and prepared. Sometimes we confuse them or think they are interchangeable. They're not. In this episode, I discuss: 

• How I almost blew it on a recent international flight
• The important difference between readiness and preparation 
• Why action without strategy leaves you rudderless
• How you need to think through preparedness and readiness in today’s market

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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You learned about a Pain Sponge if you watched the series finale of HBO's Succession. No spoilers in this podcast episode, however, I do discuss: 

• What a pain sponge is
• Why it often falls in lock-step with people pleasing
• The nuanced ways it shows up in yourself
• How to spot it in others
• 10 tips to avoid being the Pain Sponge

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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You’ve been with your company a while, and you feel like you’ve stopped growing. 

Yet, when you inquire about new opportunities or experiences, you feel like you are getting the run-around. Time passes. Nothing changes. So what do you do when you feel like you can’t get a straight answer on your career future? In this episode, I discuss: 

1. Why this is more about who you are being than what you are doing
2. Why you can’t learn this in a leadership book
3. My framework for getting a resolution

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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

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