The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin: Work, Leadership & What’s Next

What does it take to lead when technology is changing faster than anyone can predict? Jill Griffin talks with John Doyle, Chief Strategy Officer at DonerColle Partners, about career pivots, AI, uncertainty, and why the human side of leadership may matter more as technology advances.

• Why persistence and a strong point of view can create opportunities you couldn’t plan for
• What AI is changing about how we think, work, and lead
• How to stay grounded in who you are when everything around you is changing

Mentioned on the show: 

Forbes Artice: Grief without a Funeral: Grieving Lost Opportunities, written by Jill Griffin

The Career Refresh, Episode 284: How Your Anxiety Impacts Your Leadership Style, and What to Do About It

Substack: How not to use AI 

Scott Galloway 

Dr. Ulcca J. Hansen | Author & Futurist What the next 10 years will look like. 

Archetypes in Branding: A Toolkit for Creatives and Strategists

Show guest: 

John Doyle is Chief Strategy Officer at DonerColle Partners and a leading voice on AI, agentic transformation, and the future of brands. A writer and teacher by training, John has spent his career helping organizations navigate periods of technological and cultural change, from digital transformation to experience design and now artificial intelligence. His work is grounded in a simple philosophy: brands are characters. Today, he helps agencies and clients translate that character into agentic systems that can think, act, communicate, and create on behalf of organizations. John frequently speaks on AI, innovation, organizational transformation, and the evolving relationship between technology and humanity.

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Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical

Looking for a job can mess with your head. One great interview suddenly feels like THE job. A rejection feels personal. Silence makes you question everything. And before you know it, your mood is riding on what happens in your inbox.

In this episode of The Career Refresh, Jill Griffin shares 8 rules for staying sane during a job search.

• Why job searching has more in common with dating than you might think
• The mistake that can make an already difficult job search even harder
• What you need to stay sane when the hiring process feels anything but

Show notes: 

The Career Refresh, Episode 290: The Hiring System Is Broken: Why Your Job Search Isn’t Working and What to Do About It

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Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical

The more capable you are, the easier it is to become the person everything depends on. It can look like strong leadership from the outside while quietly limiting your capacity and your team’s.

In this episode, Jill Griffin breaks down how to recognize when your involvement is essential, when it may be getting in the way, and the leadership shift that creates more room for strategic thinking and greater impact. In ths episode learn: 

• The subtle difference between being highly valuable and becoming the place where everything gets stuck
 • Two questions that can change how you decide what deserves your involvement
 • Why stepping back doesn’t always mean delegating, and what strong leaders do instead

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Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical

Being the smartest person in the room doesn’t automatically make you sound like the strategic leader. In this episode, Jill Griffin breaks down the analysis-to-authority gap and why the way you communicate your expertise may be affecting how your leadership is perceived.

• Why your best thinking may not be getting the reaction it deserves
• The subtle habit that can position you as the expert in the work, but not the person making the call
• What changes when you stop trying to prove you’ve earned the right to have a point of view

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Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical

Most career goals depend on more than your effort. You can do everything right and still face a hiring freeze, an internal candidate, or a decision you cannot control. In this episode, Jill introduces the PROGRESS Framework, a more realistic approach to goal setting that accounts for setbacks, uncertainty, motivation, and changing information.

You’ll learn:

• Why a well-written SMART goal can still leave you without a workable strategy
• How to tell whether you have a skills gap, visibility gap, relationship gap, or positioning problem
• The difference between a bad week and evidence that it is time to change direction
• How to measure progress before the promotion, offer, or career change arrives

Support the show

Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical

The hiring system has changed, but most job-search advice hasn’t caught up. From ghost jobs and AI screening to algorithms that can repeat bias across employers, there’s more happening between your application and a human than you may realize. In this episode, Jill Griffin breaks down what’s happening behind the scenes and why your strategy needs to go beyond applying for posted jobs.

• What the LinkedIn investigation, Workday lawsuit, and new AI hiring research reveal about the systems screening candidates

• Why applying to ten different companies may not mean you’re getting ten independent chances to be considered

• How to shift your strategy toward positioning, relationships, visibility, and opportunities that exist beyond the application process

Sources:
Lauren Weber & Leslie Kwoh, The Wall Street Journal, "Beware the Phantom Job Listing" (2013)

Te-Ping Chen, The Wall Street Journal, "Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake" (2023)

Isabel Berwick & Sophia Smith, Financial Times, "Beware of Ghost Job Listings" (2022)

Reuters Breakingviews, "Fake Jobs Hide Cooler Reality for US Workforce" (2023)

Reuters, Derek Mobley v. Workday lawsuit. 

Stanford University, Chapman University & Northeastern University, Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

Michael Sinkewicz, Fox Business, Linkedin Investigation

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Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical

A portfolio career is about working smarter. More professionals are combining full-time roles, consulting, advisory work, board positions, teaching, writing, speaking, investing, and passion projects into careers that are more resilient, flexible, and rewarding.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What a portfolio career is and why it's becoming the future of work.
• The difference between a portfolio career and simply juggling side hustles.
• How to identify the skills, experience, and expertise you already have that can create new opportunities.
• Why your professional reputation matters more than ever.
• How to position yourself for greater career resilience, income diversification, and long-term growth.
• Practical steps to start building your own portfolio career, whether you're employed, self-employed, or somewhere in between.

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Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical

What if failure wasn’t something to avoid—but a skill to master? In this episode, I share a fresh take on how to handle setbacks, manage your mind, and turn mistakes into momentum.

• Why your brain resists failure (and how to outsmart it)
• The mindset shift that transforms “mistakes” into data
• How to stop hiding in research and start taking action
• Understand what creates confidence 

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Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical

When motivation fades it's an opportunity to get curious. This episode unpacks why we often stall before what’s next, and how to reignite your drive by shifting your thoughts just slightly toward possibility. Learn how believable, neutral thoughts can rebuild momentum, confidence, and clarity.

In this episode:

• Why motivation fades when your future feels unclear
• How to use believable thoughts to shift your mindset and energy
• The simple mental reset that helps you take action again

Support the show

Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical

In this episode of The Career Refresh, Jill Griffin breaks down the hidden cost of comparison at work—and how to replace assumptions with evidence-based clarity. Also in this episode:

• Learn how your brain fills in the blanks with fear
• How confirmation bias can derail trust
• Jill shares practical tools to help you lead with facts, regulate your thoughts, and stay grounded under pressure.
• You’ll walk away knowing how to stop unhealthy comparison, build emotional steadiness, and lead with consistent, trusted confidence.

Support the show

Jill Griffin, is a leadership and career strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh podcast. She works with high achievers to strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, build effective teams, and create what’s next.

With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.

 Visit GriffinMethod.com to learn more about working together:

The Next Era Leader
An 12-week cohort for women leaders ready to expand their capacity and lead through complexity with clarity and intention

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
1:1 strategic partnership for leaders navigating growth, transition, and what’s next

Connect with Jill for Leadership Development for Organizations and Speaking & Workshops

Instagram: @JillGriffinOffical