Working on Purpose

The holiday season is a special time to celebrate what we appreciate about our lives and the people in them, show grace and humility in whatever way our spirituality guides us, and allow ourselves to be swept away by the mystical wonder of the time. For many of us, the season ushers in a precious time to reflect, give thanks, and help others. And sometimes we see in ourselves and others rare and perhaps even fleeting moments when we transcend ourselves to a higher level of being and service to others who may not otherwise be known to us. This magical power of the season can cascade and inform the entirety of our lives, if only for the moment and sometimes, if we’re really blessed, for a lifetime. In this episode, the host shares a heartfelt conversation about the beauty and wonder of Christmas with Santa Claus, while also broadcasting via Facebook LiveStream.

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With the ever-changing landscape of the global marketplace and how business gets done, we are hard-pressed to look into a crystal ball and try to predict the future. Yet doing so is a useful exercise if only to cast our thinking and planning into a future state and transcend today’s day to day functions and comparative limited state. A well-crafted approach to consider our future would be to include the vantage point of experts who have spent considerable time and focus on studying and contributing to their industry. Since so much of what makes the world and business go ‘round revolves around the key resource of people, and as we near the end of 2016 and cast our gaze on the New Year, this episode features a Human Resource and Recruiting expert and futurist who will share his vision for the workplace as far as 2025, along with some of the key recruiting and human resource and changes in how the field uses technology.

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With the ever-changing landscape of the global marketplace and how business gets done, we are hard-pressed to look into a crystal ball and try to predict the future. Yet doing so is a useful exercise if only to cast our thinking and planning into a future state and transcend today’s day to day functions and comparative limited state. A well-crafted approach to consider our future would be to include the vantage point of experts who have spent considerable time and focus on studying and contributing to their industry. Since so much of what makes the world and business go ‘round revolves around the key resource of people, and as we near the end of 2016 and cast our gaze on the New Year, this episode features a Human Resource and Recruiting expert and futurist who will share his vision for the workplace as far as 2025, along with some of the key recruiting and human resource and changes in how the field uses technology.

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Executives today are constantly challenged to promote innovation within their organizations while entirely transforming them to higher levels of operation, often in tumultuous times and in highly scrutinized environments. Such is the experience of this episode’s guest. Attempting to recreate the first meeting between Paola Saibene and the host, this episode showcases her executive experience and some of her proudest moments of her leadership career, which is full of colorful examples that tested her creativity, perseverance, and competence. Paola will share career highlights from her 15 years of successfully implementing cybersecurity, by utilizing a holistic ecosystem, that cuts cost dramatically and galvanizes the workforce to adopt the strategic initiatives of the organization, through purposeful and meaningful engagement. Her experience is specialized in advancing and progressing environments that have the tightest constraints, face enormous challenges and have strong limitations.

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Executives today are constantly challenged to promote innovation within their organizations while entirely transforming them to higher levels of operation, often in tumultuous times and in highly scrutinized environments. Such is the experience of this episode’s guest. Attempting to recreate the first meeting between Paola Saibene and the host, this episode showcases her executive experience and some of her proudest moments of her leadership career, which is full of colorful examples that tested her creativity, perseverance, and competence. Paola will share career highlights from her 15 years of successfully implementing cybersecurity, by utilizing a holistic ecosystem, that cuts cost dramatically and galvanizes the workforce to adopt the strategic initiatives of the organization, through purposeful and meaningful engagement. Her experience is specialized in advancing and progressing environments that have the tightest constraints, face enormous challenges and have strong limitations.

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College students and their families often spend a small fortune investing in education, with the intention of giving the loved one a good start and base on which to launch a successful career. Yet, having a clear career path and strategic approach to building a college curriculum and career plan is lacking for many college-bound students. Worse, many soon-to-graduate seniors still have no idea what kind of work they might ideally pursue, despite graduating with a major. Employing the advice and counsel from a youth career coach is a direction more and more families are using to give their youth the best start to their lives they can. In this episode, we talk with a business and leadership professional who focuses on helping youth and college students make informed choices and intentionally set the direction of their careers, right from the start.

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College students and their families often spend a small fortune investing in education, with the intention of giving the loved one a good start and base on which to launch a successful career. Yet, having a clear career path and strategic approach to building a college curriculum and career plan is lacking for many college-bound students. Worse, many soon-to-graduate seniors still have no idea what kind of work they might ideally pursue, despite graduating with a major. Employing the advice and counsel from a youth career coach is a direction more and more families are using to give their youth the best start to their lives they can. In this episode, we talk with a business and leadership professional who focuses on helping youth and college students make informed choices and intentionally set the direction of their careers, right from the start.

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Many young and more seasoned pepole seek a field of work that has a convenient path to entry. That is, they had limited exposure to options, or a family member or friend were employed in a particular field and soon enough find themselves just following suit. Today, many people reinvent themselves and pursue entirely different fields later in life. And then there are the seemingly few and precious minority who discover early on in their lives exactly what they wanted to do for a living in elementary school or earlier. As it were, the host crossed paths with an extraordinary young man, extremely articulate, and something of “an old soul.” In speaking with him about his plans for the future, he boldly indicated he planned to pursue an acting career and had been firm in this plan since at least age 11. Exhilarating to hear! Perhaps both my youth and adult listening audiences can learn a thing or two from this young man about how to identify what we really want to be when we grow up?

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Many young and more seasoned pepole seek a field of work that has a convenient path to entry. That is, they had limited exposure to options, or a family member or friend were employed in a particular field and soon enough find themselves just following suit. Today, many people reinvent themselves and pursue entirely different fields later in life. And then there are the seemingly few and precious minority who discover early on in their lives exactly what they wanted to do for a living in elementary school or earlier. As it were, the host crossed paths with an extraordinary young man, extremely articulate, and something of “an old soul.” In speaking with him about his plans for the future, he boldly indicated he planned to pursue an acting career and had been firm in this plan since at least age 11. Exhilarating to hear! Perhaps both my youth and adult listening audiences can learn a thing or two from this young man about how to identify what we really want to be when we grow up?

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Today’s commerce takes place in an international marketplace, and many executives leading the largest Fortune 500 companies have lived and worked across the globe. Their business acumen is informed by a multi-cultural, multi-lingual set of experiences that contributes to their problem solving, operational effectiveness, and innovation initiatives. Recently, after leadership roles in several other Brazilian companies, Mr. Guimaraes invested in a steel structure manufacturing company in Minhas Gerais, Brazil, and then contributed his talents to grow and improve quality, productivity and the leadership of the staff. Some 30 years ago, he turned his career focus on technology, came to the United States, began a career in Information Technology and founded and ran a technology company from Dallas, Texas. We’ll hear about his dual-country adventures in business, what he’s learned about how and why culture matters, and the differences in how he led between countries and across his career.

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