Take The Lead - with Saleha Williams & Muriel Boettger: Recent Episodes
Saleha Williams
Saleha Williams, Director of Google Consulting EMEA at Acceleration, discusses with Positive Psychologist & Coach Muriel Boettger the secret to building a successful and international career in the technology business industry.
“Take the Lead” includes real business experience, blended with neuroscience and positive psychology, to show how we can activate different parts of our mind to increase productivity, creative thinking, engagement and energy, to specifically build a rewarding and fulfilling career.
Fascinated by humans, technology and business, Saleha has over 30 years’ global business experience in digital media and marketing technology. Saleha has an MBA specializing in digital transformation and a MSc (Master of Science) in Positive Psychology specializing in neuroscience to lead dynamic and creative teams in the global business technology world. The Financial Times included her in the FT Top 100 UK Technology Leaders driving change across the industry and she is popular tech and D&I speaker across the world.
Muriel is a psychologist specializing in the science of Positive Psychology. Muriel focuses on helping both companies and individuals to flourish, providing in-depth company workshops, one to one coaching and talks on positive psychology and its daily application. Based in Cologne, Muriel is fluent in English and German. Her clients include Spotify, Thoughtworks, Jobteaser, SpacePilots, as well as individuals who come to her for one to one coaching.
For more information, coaching, corporate workshops and talks see murielboettger.com
In our final podcase of this 5 part series we discuss the truth about the immense psychological impact our relationships have on our career performance. We discuss how to build positive business relationships with challenging colleagues and thrive in a diverse team environment. How to choose a mentor or champion who is right for you and the advice Saleha gives to her younger self about her personal relationships, and the impact her personal life has had across her 30 year career.
In Part 4 - Productivity, Saleha discusses how our passion, combined with a 'laser like" career focus can be used to activate the brain to achieve a state of “flow”. We discuss how, on a day to day basis, we can optimize our personal energy to advance our career and achieve long term career and management goals.
In Part 3, we discuss how using metacognition, we can actively train our brain on a daily basis, to focus on our short and long term career aspirations, and how to stay on task with our daily job performance. Saleha reveals her thinking that was instrumental in launching her profile within a major tech corporation back in the early days of her career, and how she still uses this today with her teams to achieve ‘laser like precision’ on projects and programmes working across Google and with some of the most innovative brands across the globe.
Part 2: In this episode we discuss how to find and nurture your passion. How find a job you love and are passionate about. How to build a career within that sphere. How to balance your career with your lifestyle, family, friendships and relationships. How to lead a passionate, energised, committed team, or build your business based on your passion.
Part 1. In this first episode of five in the Take the Lead podcast series, Saleha Williams, Director Google Consulting EMEA at Acceleration, discusses her career background and how from the age of 14 , she set out to build a global technology career. Saleha introduces her 4 P's model: Passion, Precision, Productivity and People, and how this has established both her own career and that of her teams.
For more information, career coaching and corporate workshops see murielboettger.com