Your Working Life With Caroline Dowd-higgins

Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. She has been inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, which honors those whose ideas have shaped the field of leadership worldwide. She is also ranked number 3 among the world’s thought leaders by Global Gurus. Sally’s latest book, Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace, offers practical ways to build more inclusive relationships, teams, and workplaces. It soared to Amazon’s number one top-seller in its field in the first week of publication. Rising Together builds on Sally’s remarkable success with How Women Rise, co-authored with legendary executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, which examines the behaviors most likely to get in the way of successful women as they move forward in their careers. Rights have been sold in 23 languages.   Other books include The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, hailed

BREAKING THROUGH Communicating to Open Minds, Move Hearts, and Change the World   “The world was depending on us. But vaccine skepticism, suspicion around Big Pharma’s motives, economic insecurity, political polarization, civil unrest, and just plain fear were challenges we had to recognize and respect. We had to address those challenges in a way that didn’t alienate people but, instead, brought them into the conversation. Was I up to the task? I’d have to be,” declares Sally Susman, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Pfizer. In 2020, she found herself at the helm of one of the most urgent, high-stakes public dialogues of our times. Based on her flash of insight, she and her team found ways to break through the noise and fear and persuade millions to change their assumptions about Big Pharma, make complex science accessible, and build confidence in the lifesaving technology.   In BREAKING THROUGH, Susman shares hard-earned lessons not only from the pandemic but from her life and distinguished career, from g

Megan Carle spent 30 years rising steadily through the ranks at Nike, finishing her career there as Vice President/General Manager of Basketball for North America, where she drove businesses featuring superstars like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. She was elevated multiple times to roles no woman had ever held, including stints leading international teams in London and Amsterdam. She founded Carle Consulting LLC, where she gives workshops on handling workplace bullying and creating an inclusive culture of connection and trust. You can learn more at www.megancarle.com Megan Carle worked at Nike for over 30 years, rising up the ranks to eventually become head of North American Basketball. But she left shortly after attaining her dream job due to a toxic workplace culture that allowed and left unpunished workplace bullying.   Carle isn’t alone, and Nike isn’t an outlier among employers. Workplace bullying is called “the undiscussable” business topic, despite affecting 80 million Americans a yea

Lisa Bragg is the award-winning entrepreneur behind MediaFace, one of Canada’s first content companies and the soon-to-be-published author of Bragging Rights: How to Talk About Your Work Using Purposeful Self-Promotion. Lisa is on a mission to help people talk about their successes. Put your head down, do good work and eventually, someone will notice you is the lesson many of us learned to get ahead, but in reality, it’s a lesson in staying stuck while opportunities slip away. Lisa’s also conducted the most extensive research study into bragging and self-promotion and would be thrilled to share the research, stories and tips with your audience. Select consulting clients include BMO, Raymond James, Sun Life, RBC, CAA, Ontario Government (VOR), UHN, Children's Aid Societies, Learning Disabilities Association Ontario, everywoman (UK organization), Dentons, and Canadian Defence Lawyers. Lisa is also the host of the podcast Bold(h)er: Stories of and for Women Who Stand Out, for BMO for Women.

Lesley Jane Seymour is a media entrepreneur and founder of CoveyClub, a new club for lifelong learners launched in February 2017 (Covey is a small flock of birds). CoveyClub allows women 40+ to bond over issues of interest and concern through virtual salons (Coffee & Conversation Zoom calls) or topics in the CoveyClub blog which is written and produced by the best journalists around the world. CoveyClub also offers a weekly podcast called Reinvent Yourself with Lesley Jane Seymour with women who have done it, tight one-on-one networking groups called Covey Pods, a private social app (CoveyConnect) and special weekly coaching sessions called Positive Mornings. Seymour is a certified Tiny Habits coach. In January 2008, Seymour was named Editor-In-Chief of More Magazine, the leading lifestyle magazine for women over forty with a readership of 1.5 million and Editor-in-Chief and Social Media director of More.com. In July of 2015, Seymour created history by having the First Lady of the United States, Michel

Do you head to work every day feeling as if you’re living a lie, in fear of raising your authentic voice because you worry about how others will perceive you? If you’re stifling your hopes and dreams in your career—and feel yourself shrinking—you may be ready to embrace your Wild Hair! Tracy J. Edmonds struck out bravely into that uncharted territory in her role as Chief Diversity Officer at a Fortune 500 Company. Once she made the leap and literally let loose her “wild hair,” she never looked back. Tracy defines a Wild Hair moment as the point in your career when you hit a crossroad and ask, “Am I being true to myself? What do I really want in my career?” It’s the moment when you choose you—your authentic self. Wild Hair will resonate with all inquisitive, ambitious, and hard-working women—especially minority women—who sit on a mountain of untapped potential. You have a unique contribution to make in this world. So, what are you waiting for? Don’t ignore your authentic voice. Elevate to that next level by fo

Nicole Gebhardt is the Founder and Chief Storyteller at Niche Pressworks (https://nichepressworks.com), a full-service publishing agency that works exclusively with mission-driven business leaders. She and her mighty team have helped over 200 speakers, coaches, consultants, and influencers expand their influence and grow their business through strategic book planning and publishing.  In this episode we flip the script and Nicole interviews Your Working Life host, Caroline Dowd-Higgins about her new book, Your Career Advantage: Overcome Challenges to Achieve a Rewarding Work Life Whether you are a mid-career professional, or a C-Suite executive, you know that navigating a career journey can be overwhelming with the challenges you face, and the blind spots you never see. Often living your best life becomes an afterthought. Discover the secrets to having a successful career while you enjoy a fulfilling life. With relatable examples, and actionable Pro Tips, Your Career Advantage reveals how to: ·       Adva

Donna Griffit, author of STICKING TO MY STORY:  The Alchemy Of Storytelling For Startups, is a world-renowned Corporate Storyteller and Pitch Alchemist. She has helped over 1000 startups, corporates and investors raise over one billion dollars and accelerate their sales with a personal touch and unmatched messaging savvy, in any industry, at any phase. For more information, please visit www.DonnaGriffit.com   THE ART OF STORYTELLING FOR STARTUPS   Corporate Storyteller Donna Griffit Shares How To Deliver Winning Investor Presentations   Storytelling as an art has been practiced for thousands of years, but entrepreneurs focused on building their businesses often lose sight of telling great stories during investor presentations. In STICKING TO MY STORY: The Alchemy Of Storytelling For Startups, corporate storytelling expert Donna Griffit distills her experience from reviewing thousands of investor pitch decks into an easy-to-use guide for startup founders. The human brain is hardwired for a structured stor

ALI GREENE is co-founder of Remote Works, an organizational design and consulting firm with a mission to liberate teams from the nine-to-five and teach them how to do their best work anytime, anywhere. Along with Tamara Sanderson, Ali Green has spent a combined two decades in distributed workplaces: Greene as the former director of people operations at DuckDuckGo and Sanderson as the director of strategic partnerships and corporate development at Automattic. Throughout their joint career history, they’ve worked in varied environments, including big tech (Google), startups (Oyster, LivingSocial), creative agencies (IDEO, Undertone), and management consulting and private equity (Oliver Wyman, Audax Group). Their new book, Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; February 7, 2023), is the ultimate playbook for managing remote teams. www.remoteworksbook.com  SOCIAL MEDIA ·      https://www.linkedin.com/in/greeneali/  ·      Instagram - Seeingreene ·      Hashtags

BETH FISHER-YOSHIDA, PH.D., CCS, is a global expert and educator in intercultural negotiation and communication. She’s the program director of Columbia University’s Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, a negotiation consultant for the United Nations, and the CEO of the consulting agency Fisher Yoshida International. She works in the U.S. and worldwide, conducting workshops on leadership, culture, workplace conflict, and negotiation, and boasts a client list that includes Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, military and security forces, governments, NGOs, and educational institutions. Her new book, New Story, New Power: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiation , helps women of all ages make successful negotiations a reality. Learn more at bethfisheryoshida.com    

Karen Dillon is a former editor of Harvard Business Review and coauthor of The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems — and What to Do About It. She is also coauthor of three books with Clayton Christensen, including the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life?   She and her co-author, Rob Cross interviewed 300 people from 30 global companies, evenly split between women and men, from 2019 to 2021.   Article in Harvard Business Review: The Hidden Toll of Microstresses   Microstresses are small moments of stress that seem manageable on their own — think a vague, worrying text from your teen flashing on your phone while you’re in a meeting, the appearance of a colleague who always wants to vent to you, or having to tell your team that the project you’ve all been grinding out extra hours on is no longer a priority. But these microstresses aren’t as harmless as they seem. Because they’re so small and brief, they don’t trigger the normal stress response

Christie Garcia is a Leadership Coach, Speaker, Facilitator, Contributor to Forbes Coaches Council, and Founder of Mindful Choice Leadership Academy. She has 19 years of experience in sales, recruiting, and leadership development. For the last decade she has worked with current and upcoming leaders from fast growing organizations including Airbnb, Twitter, Movement For Life, Sunrun, and Oakley. Christie builds programs that help individuals and teams maximize their impact through self-awareness, ownership, communication, alignment, and accountability.   One of Christie’s super-powers is helping her clients identify and manage their Ego in real time. Her clients build authentic confidence so they can communicate more effectively and maximize their impact within their professional teams and personal relationships. This is a modern approach that is designed to be simple. You just have to choose to be 1% better every day.          

Jenna Fisher is committed to finding transformational leaders who can guide companies forward in a changing world. Over the past 20 years, she has developed strong relationships with a broad cross-section of global business leaders and the companies they shape. Having completed more than 400 CFO and board searches, she has a deep understanding of what professional and personal experiences, as well as the personality traits, are needed at the top. She knows that the most successful companies—in terms of any metric—are led by diverse teams who understand and reflect their products, services, employees, and audiences. She is also the author of  To the Top: How Women in Corporate Leadership Are Rewriting the Rules for Success  In the United States, women account for 51% of the population and 70% of high school valedictorians. Yet, only 9% of the largest 100 companies in the S&P500 index are led by women. The math does not add up. So, what’s causing the disparity? In her book, TO THE TOP: How Women in Corporat

Leigh Anne Taylor Knight is a resourceful, future-focused leader who currently serves The DeBruce Foundation in Kansas City as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. A teacher at heart, Leigh Anne has also served as a K-12 assistant superintendent, advised learning institutions across the nation, and led a bi-state consortium providing powerful tools for data-driven educational research to inform practice and policy. The DeBruce Foundation is a national nonprofit foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Foundation’s mission is to expand pathways to economic growth and opportunity.  The DeBruce Foundation just released a first-of-its-kind report on employment empowerment. The research shows that careers with higher salaries, increased job security, better benefits, and more can be built with two factors: career literacy and network strength.   In the study, individuals who were rated high in career literacy and network strength: ○      earn 55% more in annual salary ○      26% more of them are

Raising your game as a communicator is the best way to make a difference in your career and relationships, but it takes courage to find your voice, open up, and invite others to open up to us. As a life-long communication coach and top gun in her field, Michelle Gladieux has discovered four obstacles keeping us from becoming the best communicators we can be: ·      Hiding: Fear of exposing our supposed weaknesses ·      Defining: Putting too much stock into our assumptions, being quick to judge ·      Rationalizing: Leaning on pessimism to shield yourself from taking chances, engaging in conflict, or doing other scary but potentially rewarding actions ·      Settling: Stopping at “good enough” instead of aiming for something better in interactions Improved communication requires taking smart risks to question our beliefs, take a leap of faith, and build our bravery to make a greater impact in our professional and personal relationships. Communicate with Courage helps readers confront psychological blocks

Cancel culture. Wokeness. Privilege. When did talking to each other get so…. complicated? The good news: it doesn’t have to be this way. New York University scholars—and experts on tough conversations—Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow have literally written the book for people who are terrified of saying the wrong thing in conversations about our differences.  In SAY THE RIGHT THING: How to Talk about Identity, Diversity, and Justice, Yoshino and Glasgow—who together direct NYU School of Law’s Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, and have years of experience working with business and cultural leaders on these topics—offer seven research-backed, guidance-filled chapters about how to tackle tough topics with neighbors, friends, family members, co-workers, and anyone else you’re close to and care about.   “Ours is a pivotal moment in history,” the authors write. “Whether our societies advance toward an inclusive future or backslide toward an unjust past is up to us…. Our own answer is to begin n

Colin Coggins & Garrett Brown discuss the power of influence and redefining what it means to sell. Their book is, THE UNSOLD MINDSET: Redefining What It Means to Sell”   Colin Coggins & Garrett Brown are authors of The Unsold Mindset, to be published by Harper Business on February 21, 2023. Thy are longtime sales leaders, practitioners, teachers, and best friends. They met at software startup Bitium, which they helped lead to an acquisition by Google. They teach the popular course they created, Sales Mindset for Entrepreneurs, at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. They are also investors, corporate advisors, and co-founders of Agency18, a firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt the Unsold Mindset. Sought-after as keynote speakers and guest lecturers, they love connecting with audiences from diverse industries, professions, and backgrounds and showing them that it’s possible to successfully sell without being someone you’re not.

Jhaymee Tynan is an award-winning strategist, culture leader, and wellness champion. She is a board-certified healthcare strategy executive and thought leader known for her values of empathy and kindness in the workplace. A former Assistant Vice President of Integration at Atrium Health in Charlotte, NC, she is currently an active member of Egon Zehnder’s global Health Services, Public and Social Sector, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices in Washington, DC. Her book is, INCLUSIVE SPONSORSHIP: A Bold Vision to Advance Women of Color In The Workplace Tynan is the Creator and Founder of 100×2030, an initiative aimed at increasing sponsorship for women of color in healthcare over the next decade. Tynan is dedicated to amplifying the voices of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) to change the narrative on diversity in senior leadership. She believes that her fundamental responsibility as an executive is to champion the next generation of diverse leaders. Her thesis is that the lack of diverse rep

Susan Drumm shares another important tool in her ongoing quest to help leaders be their best in both their professional and personal lives. Her book is, “The Leader’s Playlist: Unleash the Power of Music and Neuroscience to Transform your Leadership and Your Life” Susan Drumm is on a mission to inspire and guide leaders to heal what holds them back and help them develop the capacity and mindset to lead in today’s increasingly disruptive environment. She has personally coached billionaire CEOs, high-profile political figures, prominent Fortune 100 executive teams as well as incredible entrepreneurs that set out to disrupt the marketplace. She is CEO and Chief Empowerment Officer of her own firm, Meritage Leadership. She is also the host of the podcast and YouTube channel The Enlightened Executive, where she interviews founders and CEOs on the most cutting-edge programs, assessments, apps and techniques in personal and leadership effectiveness.

Sharlee Lyons shows you how to boost your coaching and mentoring success with emerging leaders to help bridge the leadership gap. Her book is, “Average to All-Star: Equipping Young Leaders to Start Strong and Go Further Faster” Sharlee Lyons is a multi-dimensional professional whose entire career has focused on developing others. A former Division 1 athlete, Sharlee brought her love of leadership coaching to the corporate and non-profit, and higher education sectors, serving more than twenty years as an expert in developing authentic emerging leaders and leadership teams. She is a Certified-Certified Strengths Coach, a Master Consultant with Growing Leaders, a Fascinate Certified Advisor and an accredited coach by the International Coaching Federation. Sharlee serves as a speaker, coach, teacher and consultant with a passion for working with individuals and teams to develop future leaders in all settings. www.sharleelyons.com