PowerToFly: Recent Episodes
Nicole Felter
This the podcast version of our Chat & Learn program! We want to make each Chat & Learn as accessible as possible to our community. You can see a full list of our upcoming Chat & Learns here: https://powertofly.com/career/
By Kate Anderson, Co-founder and VP, Operations at IFundWomen.
Your team is the heart of your business, and making smart hiring decisions from day one will allow your vision for your company to become reality. In this chat we will tackle making your first hire, growing a team, and the importance of focusing on people first.
In this chat, you’ll learn:
- How to identify your company’s mission and values
- How to choose the perfect candidate for your company
- How to design your employee onboarding process
- How to build a company culture that your employees will want to promote
By Elissa Cabasso, Senior Director Account Management at JW Player.
Allyship at work can foster beneficial connections and build a more positive workplace culture. Being an ally is a lifelong process that involves acknowledging privilege and bias, and challenging them in yourself and in your environment.
Being an effective ally is a skill like any and takes time to master. Elissa, Sr. Director of Account Management at JW Player, will share how she uses active listening to educate herself about the experiences and needs of others to become a better ally and more supportive colleague.
In this chat we will discuss:
- What it means to be a supportive ally
- Best practices for being an ally in the workplace
- How to recognize your biases and work to overcome them
By Miss Peppermint, Actress, Singer, Reality Star & Activist.
Peppermint, a trailblazing actress, singer, reality star, activist, and longtime key figure in queer nightlife, will join PowerToFly in an intimate conversation moderated by Joey Nolfi, writer and multimedia host at Entertainment Weekly, to discuss her personal life, her successful career, and ways we can all help combat the ongoing violence against trans women of color.
By Bridie Kennedy, Sales Leader, and Michael Davis, Enterprise Account Executive at New Relic.
Preparing for the arrival of a new addition to the family is an exciting adventure, but it can come with some feelings of unease around balancing your career and family life. As you make the leap from worker to working parent, it's important to recognize the value of planning for your transition away from, and back to, work.
New Relic’s Enterprise Account Executive, Michael Davis, and Sales Leader, Bridie Kennedy, have both experienced these transitions, and they will be sharing their personal insights and best tips for soon-to-be parents on how to navigate balancing career and family.
In this chat, you’ll learn:
- Tactical steps to prepare for parental leave and the return to work
- How to balance being ambitious in your career and parenthood
- How to confidently set boundaries to avoid guilt at home and at work
By Marina Zucchini, PowerToFly's Career Coach.
Do you want to ace your next interview? Join this free interview coaching session with our Career Coach, Marina Zucchini, to learn the expert tips you need to succeed!
In this chat you’ll learn:
- The general dos and don’ts of interviews
- How to address the salary question
- Questions you can ask the company (remember, you’re also interviewing them!)
Jackie Feminella at Senior Frontend Engineer at Guru Technologies.
I started my career in television production and then in technical recruiting. About two years out of college, I found Software Engineering, switched careers again, and have been in this field for 5 years now. Something that I learned from the get-go was that experiencing Imposter Syndrome is normal and widespread, especially in this field. However, I often felt that I was on my own in figuring out how to actually combat those imposter thoughts.
A couple of years into my engineering career, I remembered Carol Dweck's research on Growth Mindset from studying Psychology in college. Over time, I've begun to leverage Growth Mindset habits and found myself more comfortable in the unknown of each new challenge, even when I feel Imposter Syndrome thoughts creep up.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- What a Growth versus Fixed Mindset is
- Specific tips to foster Growth Mindset thoughts and habits
- How a Growth Mindset can help you in your career
By Zhanna Tam, VP, Growth Marketing at Netskope, and Paula Judge, VP, Talent at Accel.
Your job search journey is coming to an end… You applied, you interviewed, you negotiated, and now the decision is in your court. Do you accept the offer?
Most people do. They have gone through the interview process that requires a lot of time investment, preparation, research, and stress. But sometimes, that job turns out to be something different and they are soon disappointed by the choice they made. Get recommendations on how to avoid this situation and choose the perfect next job.
In this chat, we want you to walk away with:
- Recommendations on what criteria to evaluate when thinking about your next career move
- Tips on where to find information about your potential employer, beyond employer review sites
- An understanding of perspectives of a recruiter and a hiring manager when it comes to filling a role
- Motivators: how to identify what’s really driving you to look for a new role.
By Chiara Condi, Gender Equality Advisor & Founder, Led by HER.
Today the UN estimates that 2/8 working women are victims of domestic violence, which means that statistically speaking most companies will be confronted with the issue (even more so after the sharp rise worldwide in domestic violence cases as a cause of the COVID19 pandemic). Domestic violence is a workplace issue and therefore workplaces need to have policies and programs to best respond and assist victims in the workplace. Preventing victims of domestic violence also means protecting women from losing their jobs and facing financial insecurity on top of domestic violence, thereby preserving their livelihood freedom, and lives. Therefore companies need to have the appropriate policies and practices to accompany and refer victims of domestic violence (that includes paid/unpaid leave, security protection, job security, etc). Large companies such as Facebook, L'Oréal, and Vodafone already have put such policies into place.
We will discuss how domestic violence affects women in the workplace and how companies can best address the issue to respond in the most effective manner
The chat will delve into best practices and the report that I have worked on with Dentons, Kering, and Thomson Reuters that compares international best practices on measures to put in place to protect victims of domestic violence in the workplace.
The report is accessible here:
http://www.trust.org/publications
By Maya Ziv at Corporate Counsel at Helix.
I had thought that my background in science and specialty in complex contracting at law firms prepared me to be an expert in-house attorney. It wasn't until I joined the startup world that I realized that my expertise couldn't just live in a vacuum. I've learned the key to success in any organization is working across cross-functional teams effectively. In other words, it's crucial to work with people from different functional areas of the company (for example, Engineering, Marketing, Product, Business Development, Customer Success), and understand how these individual team goals contribute to the organization's overall mission and goals.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Confidence in how to interact with functional leaders and manage their expectations
- How to keep common goals in mind while working with functional teams on their departmental goals
- Tools for collaboration and building trust, respect, and willingness from cross-functional teams
- Tips for effective communication across teams, understanding how to approach and work with individuals stakeholders
By Natalie Angelillo, Vice President of Community & Communications at OfferUp.
Companies often limit or assign the “people” related activities to the HR team, expecting them to “be responsible” for building their culture. But HR teams alone can't build community or culture for a company. Great cultures come from a group of people united in a shared mission.
In this talk, I will share some stories and practical advice for companies and HR teams on how to foster a sense of belonging internally in remote and remote/hybrid work environments.
This talk will give practical and simple tips to execute programs. We'll also work on a framework that will help you create alignment and belonging for all employees.
By Alice Li, Staff Engineer at Squarespace.
I’m the daughter of a refugee whose family was tortured and executed in his native country, then arrived in the United States only to build a life plagued with targeted anti-Asian violence that continues to escalate today. Overcoming systemic oppression and inherited generational trauma is a lifelong marathon, not a sprint -- this is a mantra that I carry with me as I build my own life and career. As a woman of color in the tech industry, finding ways to advocate for myself and my colleagues is a continuous process.
In this chat, I want us to reflect on:
- Leading with empathy and vulnerability
- Managing privilege guilt with true allyship
- Healing through sponsorship, mentorship, and coaching
By Katie Hallam, Partner Marketing at Helix.
I've always said that life's too short not to make an impact...and I hope that's impactful for somebody! I've been very lucky in having some exciting opportunities throughout my career, but the opportunity that inspired me the most was the one I almost didn't have the courage to take. I've learned that not every path is a straight line, and it's never too late to pivot.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- An understanding that you're always building your skillset
- An acceptance that not all your passions need to be a part of your career for you to be passionate about your career
- A better appreciation for what impact means to you
- How to think about your transferable skills in relation to your passions
By Oksana Chuchunkova, Employment Program Coordinator at the Russian Disability Peoples’ Organization.
When I was a little girl, I wanted to become a singer just like the most popular singer in the U.S.S.R. at that time. I dreamed about different jobs but my choices diminish when I grew up. I hadn't taken into consideration that some jobs were not available for me because I’m blind.
As time went by, policies and institutions evolved and became more inclusive and accessible but challenges for blind job seekers still exist all over the world. I’ll tell my story to the audience but this talk goes beyond my personal journey.
In this chat, you'll discover:
- Rare jobs that can be done successfully by blind individuals
- Problems and solutions at the workplace for blind people
- Adaptation methods that will help blind people live with maximum comfort
- Strategies and changes that we can all apply to help live in a more inclusive society
By Karuna Pai Thomas, Diversity & Inclusion Catalyst.
I had concluded that my discomfort for ‘tooting my own horn’ was from my conservative upbringing, however, after meeting people from around the world, I quickly learned I wasn’t alone!
IamRemarkable is a global Google movement that strives to empower everyone, particularly women and underrepresented groups, to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond!
Self-Advocacy, Self-Promotion and Story Telling are uncomfortable muscles for many, but traits that are crucial to our success in the workplace and life in general. #IamRemarkable workshop strives at instilling confidence to engage in self-advocacy and challenge the perception of self-promotion.
In this chat/workshop, I want you to walk away with:
- Mindset shift - “It's not bragging if it's based on facts”
- Recognize and articulate your achievements/wins, no matter how big or small
- Spark conversations in your circle on the importance of self-worth and confidence
By Samaya Sinha & Khrystyna Oros from Ideate Labs.
Become a creative problem solver in this workshop!
You're ready to make a shift, but how? Join a webinar from Ideate Labs LLC for advice on interviews, portfolios, and finding the perfect job. Ideate Labs provides professionals with free resources and webinars, as well as semester long courses, to prepare them for a career in UI UX design.
Khrys and Samaya, the founders of Ideate Labs, pivoted into their UI UX jobs 5 years ago. They met at a small startup, working as marketing associates. Unfortunately the work culture at the job was not right for them. They learned about UI UX while at their startup job and successfully positioned ourselves as UX designers. Khrys and Samaya have over 5 years of UI UX experience working at startups, nonprofits, agencies and corporations. They mentor startups at Wharton's Venture Labs and their mission is to make digital design accessible to all.
As 2 women, 2 immigrants, working in the U.S., they know how hard it can be to fit into a new role, fit into new work cultures, and ultimately take the lead on projects and initiatives to lead teams to success.
In this talk, they will share their secrets around landing a UI UX job:
- What makes a great portfolio?
- How to find a recruiter that will help in the job search?
- What kinds of jobs to look for?
- How to get new skills to develop your resume?
- How to nail the interview (Zoom and in-person!)
- How to learn UI UX skills
In this chat, we want you to walk away with:
- Easy steps you can take to pivot into a new career
- How to position yourself for a new career
- How to play to your strengths
- Tangible steps to learn UI UX design
- Free resources to help you get started!
By Olivia Jaras, CEO & Founder of Salary Coaching for Women.
Have you ever noticed that while you may start with negotiations with a clear plan, they quickly go off the rails and off track quickly? Come with me as I teach you how to negotiate everything you want and on your terms.
In this session I will give you simple and actionable steps that will empower you to negotiate practically everything!
By Alissa Mayers, Public Programs Manager at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute.
I have always been curious about working groups, mostly because I have never really enjoyed them, and when I have seen really effective groups or teams I am always jealous....how did they do that? When done right they can be effective and empowering, but so many of us have had bad experiences with working groups. Whether you end up feeling like you are doing all of the work, or cannot seem to have clear communication, we have all struggled a bit with optimizing our group work experiences.
During this talk, I will share a perspective with you about working groups that can help change how you show up to a group and how you manage a working group experience.
By Kwame Thomison, Sharell Bryant, Carly Stambaugh from Teachers Pay Teachers.
Join three TpTers in discussing how to grow a vibrant learning culture within your technical teams, and hear how they use continuous learning to increase employee engagement.
In this chat you will learn:
- Actionable steps you can take to introduce yourself and your team to the Continuous Learning culture
- A solid understanding of the benefits this culture will provide
- Resources to impact small and larger teams
By Kelly Wulff, General Counsel of Vouch Insurance.
Join me for an interactive discussion about how to ask for the big one - that promotion or that job that will set you up for the next step in your career. In our time together, we'll discuss what managers and leaders evaluate when considering promotions and how to set yourself up for success. We'll also talk about how to have that conversation, you know, the uncomfortable one when you ask to be considered for the big role.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Strategies to land your next role
- Inside scoop on the managers/leaders’ minds
- Tips & tricks to thrive in that difficult conversation
By Michelle Amato, Vice President of Sales, Global Financial Services at Workiva.
It took me several years and a few companies to find one that really allowed me to leverage my strengths and be comfortable in my voice to lead. Being in a company that supports and promotes diversity growth in sales has empowered me to leverage my voice and be an advocate for others.
In this chat you’ll learn:
- How to discover your right environment
- How to set yourself for success (being this one of the cornerstones for growth!)
- What advocating for others looks like
Christy Pasion & Marcia McKniff from Datadog.
We started our careers in the tech industry knowing that only 16% of women hold senior-level positions, with just 10% at the executive level. And we wanted to challenge that. Today, as leaders in both Sales and Technical Solutions at Datadog, we have the opportunity to change the status quo, and progress the company forward through the successful management of our own teams and departments. We have learned many lessons through failure and success on our own career paths, and we want to share our advice and stories with other aspiring tech industry leaders so that together we can move the needle on female representation in this male-dominated industry.
In this chat we want you to walk away with:
- Actionable steps you can take to achieve success in tech
- Skills to hone if you'd like to become a leader in this space
- Talking points to start the conversation around career progression with your managers
By Jessica Kurz, Senior Director of Strategic Projects at VTS.
As someone who is about to take my second parental leave in two years, I've learned a lot about how to prepare for the time away from work as well as how to transition back in. I believe that parental leave is essential and that all caregivers should be given the opportunity to temporarily step away from work guilt and stress free. I hope to be able to share some tips from my experience that will help you prepare for each phase of your leave - from the initial conversation with your manager all the way through to being fully back in your role post-baby.
You'll walk away from this chat with a better understanding of:
- When and how to begin discussing your need for parental leave with your manager
- Ways to plan for your time away from the office
- How to set yourself up for a successful return to work
- Ideas for navigating difficult scenarios related to taking leave and adjusting back into work mode post-leave
By Bina Kamath, CEO & Founder at Orion's Reach.
Networking is my superpower. I realized this early on when I came to Canada in 1996 and eventually it became a part of my routine. Networking allowed me to tap on resources, connections and opportunities I didn't know existed and evolve as a person in my personal and professional life.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Actionable steps you can take to start networking now
- Strategies on how to network
- How to overcome barriers to networking
By Brittany Durdin from the uShip team.
We all face obstacles in our lives, personal and professional. When it comes to our professional lives, our work environments can have a significant impact on how we handle those obstacles, but what makes an environment “good” for clearing obstacles? A “good” environment is rooted in trust, and empowerment is the key to setting up teams to be self-sufficient and ultimately more efficient and effective.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Skills to become more self-sufficient in removing obstacles
- A deeper understanding on why trust is so important in creating an environment where teams are healthy and successful
- Some tools on how to set clear expectations for teams
By Bosky Mukherjee.
I get asked a lot of questions on breaking or pivoting into tech and almost in all those questions lies doubts and misconceptions about the stereotypes who have made it in tech. Candidates are busy wordsmithing their resumes or trying to get a referral and network without meaningful results. My question to you is - Have you thought about flipping the question around and asking yourself how likely doing the same things again and again should give you different results. So I set out to reframe the classic Chicken & Egg Problem of "No experience, no role & no role; no experience" conundrum to help jobseekers solve this.
In this chat and learn, I want you to walk away with:
- Understand the job hunting game and what is happening on the other side of the table
- Actionable steps you can start taking today to kickstart your journey in a tech career that won't cost you money
- Reframe Imposter Syndrome and the Inner Voice to work for us; not against us
By Diana Zhang.
After taking an unexpected leap of faith from my executive role at a hedge fund to become the CEO and co-founder of NeighborShare, I find myself at the helm of a 25+ person, all-volunteer team working furiously to help as many families as possible through moments of critical need. While working with this dynamic and talented group has been one of the highlights of my new role, I've also found myself evolving my management approach to make sure I get the most out of the team: How do I keep these busy people with full-time jobs engaged and motivated about NeighborShare's mission when I don't even have the most obvious lever a manager usually has - money?
In this chat, I want you to walk away with practical techniques for keeping your team engaged and motivated, while still maintaining a culture with a high bar for quality and accountability.
By Lauren Baptiste.
Is stress getting in the way of your work? Is work getting in the way of your well-being? As a Type A woman working up the ranks, the ambition that got me to the top was the same kryptonite that led me to a hospital, ill from corporate burnout. Join me in my second Chat & Learn in which we'll get real about burnout in the workplace.
By Michele Sammons.
If your default mode is to overthink, determined to make things complicated, and effort your way into happiness and success (I did this for years), listen carefully—life can be different. It can be joyful.
I believe with all my heart that the Spiritual Path can be sprinkled with fun. We can skip our way to joy. We can giggle with delight. We can marvel at our own magnificence. We can let it be easier than we’ve been making it out to be.
During this powerful chat, you’ll learn
- How to wake up your intuition
- Pay attention to your instincts
- Trust your guidance
By the It'$ My Money Lady, Patrina Dixon.
I thought my life was almost perfect until I realize that I had an opportunity to improve my finances. There was a time in my life where I had trouble managing money I noticed other people in my community also had issues with managing money for themselves and their families. Money seems to be the common issue and why people are stressed about certain things. I’ve created easily digestible content to help people manage their finances and live a life completely free of financial stress.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- How to create and follow a budget
- The best ways to save your money
- How to create an additional stream of income
By Mina Ennin Black.
Growing up I always thought investing was something that other people did. It wasn’t for me. It seemed…complicated. It wasn’t until I looked around at my family that I realized that to make any meaningful progress with our finances, investing had to be part of the conversation.
That’s when I set out to be a trained Financial Advisor on a mission to help as many women as I can understand not only how to invest but how investing can really change their lives.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Actionable steps you can take to begin investing with as little as $1
- How to create a workable financial and investment roadmap that you’ll actually use
- What you can do at every life stage for your finances
By Autumn Wright and Amanda Raymond from the CallRail team.
We are two non-traditional engineers. One of us graduated from a bootcamp and worked under a mentor at a startup. One of us is a self-taught developer who learned on the job through a series of IT department positions. We’ve taken the long road and learned hard lessons on our way to our current positions as senior software engineers in an established and successful engineering org. Even though our paths are different, we’ve both experienced an evolution from learning to code to focusing on solving problems.
In this chat, find out:
- What we wish we could go back in time and tell our junior developer selves
- What habits we’ve curated that have continued to serve us well
- What are the most meaningful facets of our work
- Common lessons from the past 5 years and what the next 5 years look like
By Eliza VanCort.
Creating networks that support and nurture you while propelling you forward is far more than developing a hefty rolodex. Networking goes to the very heart of who we really are, how we feel about ourselves, and the toxic messages that hold us back. To build and maintain strong, transformative networks we must know our worth. This involves: neutralizing anti-mentors, knowing our value, and bragging like champs. I have developed concrete strategies to do all three.
In this chat I want you to walk away with:
- Strategies to identify and neutralize anti-mentors.
- Approaches that help you know your worth.
- Concrete steps to brag like a champ.
By Kyleigh Meisler, Partner and Event Operations Manager at GameChanger.
Graduating from college I thought I knew what path I wanted my career to take. I found myself working hard, but unfulfilled. I desired to find a career that could meld my passion for sports and feel like I was making an impact while having room to grow and learn. Working in the sports tech industry has allotted me the opportunities to do just that while working with individuals with different backgrounds and interests.
In this chat, we'll discuss:
- How you can blend your interests into your career
- Finding value in the work you do
- The importance of work/life balance, especially in this new world of remote working
By Anne Salgado, Senior Level Customer Care Manager at LogMeIn.
I am a Mother, Wife, Sister, Daughter, Friend, Teacher, Volunteer, Employee and Manager. I feel happy, exhausted, excited, angry, inspired, frustrated, empathetic, and grateful. There are days when I bounce between or merge these roles that lead me to success and other days when I feel as though I struggled to find any success.
Vacillating in this way is not something I have easily embraced as I have always committed to giving 100% in every aspect of my life. Yet I have learned in the last year that it is completely reasonable and acceptable to not provide 100% of yourself to everyone or every project every day. And I am now totally okay with it.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Tips on how to show grace to yourself
- Strategies on how to support your colleagues and team members during stressful times
- Knowing how to prioritize your support system and what to do if you don’t have one
By Tokes Ojo-Ade and Marissa Regnerus from the T. Rowe Price team.
As women, we navigate a delicate balance when we show up to the office. We're told to dress professionally to be taken seriously, but not so seriously as to come off as rigid. Dress in a feminine way, but don't become sexualized. Trendy clothes are in, but dress for your age. Hear from two professionals who present differently but have the same objective: be seen as an expert in their field while being comfortable with who they are. Join our discussion as we explore the rewards and cost of presenting authentically at work.
By Nora Leet and Sue Lorentz from the Surescripts' team.
Nora came to the sudden realization that she didn’t want her boss’ job. But with 15-20 years of work in front of her, that didn’t mean she wanted to just standstill. One of Sue’s greatest learning experiences came not when she was promoted, but when she was asked to take on a project in her current role. Professional growth comes in many shapes and sizes and is not inextricably tied to getting promoted.
In this chat, we want you to walk away with:
- An HR perspective on why organizations need and benefit from people who aren’t seeking to move up
- Ideas for how you can grow in place, regardless of your longer-term ambitions
- Tips for talking to your boss about what you want
By Ashley T. Brundage.
Empowering Differences is the intentional action of using power and authority for yourself or others while positioning ways in which you are not the same as the people around you. Using your differences, what makes you unique, to empower yourself and others to make real change happen. I captured this process of change management by creating it as a book and online leadership development course that I am excited to share with PowerToFly!
You will walk away from this conversation with:
- An understanding of why empowering differences is so important to making real intentional changes happen
- Strategies for you to begin to feel empowered in your differences
- Tips for empowering others
By Jennifer Yeh.
We only have one life. And until you’re brave enough to walk along the edge of this one life, you’ll be meandering in a field of cultural and social norms and other people’s wants, needs and expectations. Your true self is waiting outside of all that noise - separated from everything that holds you back. Getting to your true self takes bravery, and bravery can only come about when you’re faced with something that requires you to be so!
In our chat, we’ll talk about:
- How to leverage emotions to find objectivity
- How to make decisions and assess risk
- How to adapt and pivot while staying focused
By Latisha Kimber, Head of Digital Engagement at S&P Global.
Being your authentic self at work shows up in many ways—in fact, it can help you embrace opportunities for growth. I've taken on several new roles throughout my career with the goal of stretching myself and growing into the professional I want to be, and the vast majority of those opportunities came to me thanks to the organic relationships I've built. I want to show you how to reap the same benefits by tapping into the one superpower we all have—being ourselves. You will walk away from this chat with:
- Tips for building authentic relationships
- A framework for intentional networking
- Tools to ensure that others are aware of your skill sets so they think of you when opportunities arise
By Lauren Washington.
I always thought there was a right time and right path to becoming an entrepreneur. After starting my career as a teacher, joining the corporate world for 8 years, getting an MBA, and then jumping headfirst into entrepreneurship for the last 7 years, I've realized there isn't. I’m really excited to share my journey with you all and help you start your own journey of entrepreneurship.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way - so you don’t have to learn the hard way
- Tips for getting started on your own big idea
By Toni Forge & Kyra Reed.
The cannabis industry offers women and marginalized communities opportunities for ownership, employment, and participation in its growth in a way that no other industry provides. But we need strong advocates and talented professionals to ensure that we are great in numbers and success. We'll be answering questions and sharing our experiences as women and advocates in the emerging cannabis industry. We invite women from all backgrounds to explore if this industry is a good fit for their career goals.
By Charity Collier.
I witnessed many people in 2020 learn to navigate how to work from home and not being able to spend time with loved ones. What people may not realize is the toll on our mental health these changes have caused.
I look at mental health like physical health, we need to take care of it on a daily basis, just like we take care of our bodies. As we move into 2021 it is my hope we can take time to take care of mental health and make time for self care. I also understand the barriers and the question "but how"?
In this talk I hope to aid participants in knowing how to recognise mental health in themself. As well as plan on how to take care of their mental health while juggling life, such as working from home, and easing back into in person connections.
In this chat I want you to take away:
- The difference between mental health and mental illness
- How mental health may look in your life.
- What self care really is
- What actions you can do for healthier mental health
By Diane Foley from Raytheon Technologies.
I’ve heard countless stories of women working hard and achieving results, yet they are still being passed over for promotion and other growth opportunities. When I dig a little deeper, I find many of those women have never overtly shared their career aspirations or goals with their managers or other decision makers. That leaves those managers and decision makers to make their own assumptions about these women and their aspirations.
In this chat, I want you to learn:
- How to advocate for yourself and your career
- How to find allies in the organization who will advocate for you
- How to identify and overcome common organizational dynamics that impact women’s advancement
By Angela Choi.
It is your birthright to lead a happy and joyous life. Perhaps this seems easier said than done because somewhere along the way, you started making choices and doing things based on what you were told you “should” be doing. Or maybe your fears got in the way and instead, you chose a safer path. Maybe you’ve now found yourself wondering if this is the life you actually want and if not, how you can make changes to it. Whatever the case may be, I’m here to remind you that happiness is your birthright – your work and contributions to the world are meant to bring meaning and joy to your life.
In this Chat and Learn, I’ll teach you 6 steps that you can take right away that will enable you to understand what’s been holding you back and empower you to start creating a life that you absolutely love.
Quite often, taxes can seem mysterious, overwhelming, or downright intimidating, simply because of the complex and ever-changing nature of US tax code each year. We too have been in the role of tax novice as we entered the workforce, often relying on friends and family for our important tax decisions. Taxes are not just a once-a-year event. Even when we have started a new position, this comes with essential tax forms and considerations for us to think about. Together, we will offer you our key learnings from working in the tax and FinTech industries so that you can feel tax literate this season.
In this chat, we want you to walk away with:
- Actionable steps you can take for your taxes and finances when you start a new job
- A solid understanding of how to prepare for tax season
- Ownership over your tax returns, plus what a tax refund or tax debt means for you
By Jeannette Ceja.
In this chat we will discuss ways that we can amplify the important role that women contribute to the travel industry. Also, how we can further build a more inclusive and diverse travel movement.
By Dovie Majors from the Amazon team.
Have you thought about moving into a different role within your existing company or taking that leap of faith to transfer your skills to a new business? It can be scary and somewhat daunting. An initial reaction is to doubt your skills and your personal brand. The goal of this chat is to explore how to identify and leverage your transferable skills.
By Criss Cuervo.
Since I was a young girl I heard about meditation, however it seemed something esoteric and far from my reach. For many years I read books on the subject but still did not understand how to practice or explore my inner world. After many years of study and search, I finally started to understand from my own practice what meditation is along with experiencing many of its benefits.
By Marcela Díaz.
An encounter at a local Art gallery led to a tech job and my very own “Emily in Paris” experience once they transferred me to France. It took me a while to connect the dots that being 100% myself in and out of the office had been the key, not only to personal fulfillment, but to unlock a professional opportunity I assumed out of reach, particularly being a female, a Latina, and an immigrant.
By Shiva Roofeh.
Being an Iranian, American, Muslim, Jew I've learned to painfully deal with hurting situations due to the lack of cultural intelligence of others. It is my objective to stop people from this suffering.
I want you to walk away from this chat with:
- What cultural intelligence is and isn't
- Ways to manage culturally confusing situations so you can respond better
- Tools to find deep rooted, hidden cultural and personal assumptions that have been driving your conversations, actions and behaviors
- Strategies to start changing those conversations, actions and behaviors
By Lisa Genova.
Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O’Briens, and Every Note Played. Julianne Moore won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in the film adaptation of Still Alice in 2015. Lisa’s TED talk, What You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer’s, has been viewed over 5 million times. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting is her first work of nonfiction.
By Orly Lynn, Diversity and Inclusion Practitioner, and Head of Global Inclusion and Diversity at Commvault.
One of the foundations of an inclusive workplace is being able to feel free to bring your whole self to your proverbial 9-5. Employee Resource Groups allow people to build connections with coworkers that go beyond just a simple work relationship. In my time as a Diversity and Inclusion practitioner, I have seen the power that ERGs have to revolutionize an organizational culture and bring people together that may not have otherwise connected in their day-to-day routine. Join me in this Chat & Learn to discuss best practices in creating successful and sustainable ERGs.
By Matthew Reynolds.
One of my biggest struggles was allowing myself to show up as my biggest and brightest self. What held me back was the situations that I faced growing up that made me feel a loss of love and connection with my fellow humans. I had to go through my own process of discovering love, building belonging, and then helping others to build belonging as well. I began this work through crafting my own equity lens and helping others do the same. We are here to live our truth and love our lives.
In this chat I want you to walk away with:
- Knowing what an Equity Lens is, and how to craft one.
- A strong sense that you are not alone in how you might be feeling about your lived experiences, and the world around you.
- That you too can be your biggest and brightest self.
- A stronger sense of connection with yourself, and other people.
- Knowing that you can live your truth and love your life.
By Pamela Schneider & Ashley Hildreth from the Clyde team.
Have you felt like your career may have a ceiling because it’s a niche role? Learn how these women in leadership, currently Vice Presidents in their career journey have navigated the out of box approach to successful niche careers.
You will walk away from this chat with...
- Learning the path forward starts with that first step
- Knowing your own passions, strengths and challenges
- How not to fit in and why you don't have to fit in to succeed
By Donna Hicks-Mitchell.
When I was a junior employee, I often took my breaks sitting at the head of empty boardroom tables. I imagined myself surrounded by really smart people. I focused on that feeling... and the steps that I would take to make the position my reality! Join this session for access to a comprehensive strategy to align, access and secure your position at the head of the table of your choice!
By Melissa Nacerino, Head of Global Channels & Alliances at Netskope.
I wouldn’t be where I am today without my network of connections, advocates, and sponsors. Those people who know the value of your work, and make sure others do too - especially when you’re not in the room or when you don’t have a seat at the table just yet. While mentorship plays a tremendous role in guiding our journey, that’s just one piece of the puzzle. There are “career boosters” all around us. My favorites come in the form of an advocate to shine a light on your value, a supportive community, and a healthy dose of self-promotion.
In this chat we will discuss:
- Going beyond the mentor: How and why to identify a sphere of influencers
- Women helping women: raising each other up
- Being your own advocate: getting self-promotion just right (without being braggy)
By Sylvia Mukasa.
Initially, I always assumed technology was used to do good - solve problems to the challenges humanity faces. I never realized that there is a dark side of technology and how deep the roots go. You see, none of us is born choosing their race, gender, citizenship and many other things that define us that we have no control of. Technology has contributed to making life easier through things like using mobile money, shopping online, making robotics arms for the disabled etc. However, technology has also been used to discriminate, using those very things that define us, to deny access to opportunities, services, control power and to commit other injustices/unfair practices.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- A basic Understanding of what AI is - with a focus on Algorithms
- Examples of how Al can be discriminatory
- Actionable steps on how to combat this problem
By Helen Sanchez.
How is AGEISM affecting your future and aspirations? Come learn effective strategies and tools that you can use during interviews and conversations with hiring managers to stop letting your years of experience prevent you from getting that job.
We’ll be joined by Helen Sanchez, the founder of Tanagui, for a 30-minute Office Hours session. With 20+ years of experience in recruiting, Helen has advice on how to best present yourself and spin your experience when applying for a new job. You’ll leave this session with new approaches for tackling those tricky interview questions, and the confidence to use them in your next interview!
By Josie Garcia.
I found a career path which I loved, but how could I thrive with 2 special needs toddlers and no support system? The first step was the hardest: tuning out the negative voices and telling myself "you can do this because failure is not an option." The trick was taking things one day at a time so I wouldn't get overwhelmed by the sheer number of steps I had to take to get through the day. I don't know if I would have succeeded had I not been so passionate about Email Deliverability. While I often felt overwhelmed by the ongoing challenges in my life, I found satisfaction and a sense of control in a career path that enabled me to fix problems quickly. As I solved more problems for my clients, I gained strength and confidence, which helped me develop more skills to advocate for my children's needs. My sons are in their 20's now and one of them even worked for Salesforce for 2.5 years. I have a thriving career in Deliverability and every challenge I overcame has made me a better person.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Actionable steps you can take to drown out negativity
- The importance of keeping your eye on the prize
- Choosing your battles wisely
By Liza Lewis & Chase McCants from Olive.
Many of us wear a mask when we head into the office, especially if we’re in the minority. But it takes a lot of energy to maintain the masquerade day in and day out and it can be easy to lose yourself to the false image you’ve created. Let’s have a conversation on how we can be our authentic selves every single day.
You’ll walk away from this conversation with:
- Our personal tips on maintaining your identity in the workplace as a minority
- Strategies for self-care when you’re feeling depleted
- An understanding of what it means to be authentic for us and how that may apply to you
By Rebecca Carpenter & Madeline Jackson from the Procore team.
Too often female identifying humans bear the weight of societal pressures while also combating gender stereotypes and inflated assumptions about how we should exist in the world. Pioneering change in a male dominated industry requires bold communication, inclusive leadership, and passion for mastering your craft. Join these two powerful women as they share stories about breaking through the construction & tech industry by driving results and inclusive environments.
Take Aways:
- Tangible framework for turning fear into bold communication
- Gain a better understanding of achieving confidence & credibility led through mastery
- Breakthrough your limiting beliefs with actionable lessons learned from women who have and continue to be the 25% in our industry
By Sienna J. Brown.
I work with women every day teaching them how to position their past professional experience with clarity and confidence in choosing their next career move.
Being honest, being a Black professional often means needing to find companies that care, working through limiting beliefs of what's possible and negotiating your worth.
You're capable of finding a job you love and I'm here to teach you how to choose your next career move as a Black professional.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Mindset shifts to reenvision what's possible for you in the workplace
- Strategies to position your past experience with clarity and confidence
- Skills to know your worth and negotiate for what you deserve
By Mini Thangaswamy, Mary Pearce, Monica Galatanu from the Paypal team.
As we achieve and adapt in our personal and professional lives, transitions are inevitable. Whether it’s taking a break from work, returning to work as a mom, or moving into an unfamiliar professional role, change brings with it new challenges.
All three of us started our careers in male-dominated fields. We had no idea the road ahead was about to get even lonelier at times. Being the first one on your team to pump milk at work for your infant child, or the only one in a dual working household to drive your kids to practice, can feel lonely and exhausting at times. We were all there, in the deep throws of worry. Until we flipped the perspective, and we decided to focus on our strengths, and the power of our advocacy for a more inclusive mindset.
By the end of this chat you will learn:
- Tips for responding to change without panic
- How to gain confidence when you’re an ‘only’
- The importance of honest conversations with your manager and team
By Joyce Shulman.
My walking practice has been a constant throughout my life. I have solved more problems, shaken off more stress, created more ideas, and lost more weight by walking than through any other practice or habit. It has kept me sane, fit, and healthy. And now science has caught up with what I’ve always believed: walking can improve our decision-making, boost our mood, help combat depression, fuel our creativity, give us more energy than a cup of coffee, and literally add years to our lives.
In this chat, you will walk away (pun intended) with an understanding of how a simple walking practice can have a powerful impact on virtually every aspect of your life.
By Marie Roker-Jones.
Being diagnosed with a chronic illness can be an incredibly isolating experience. When I was diagnosed with my chronic illness, I wondered how I would ever cope. I honestly had no idea how it was going to affect my life. Would I be able to keep up with my career? It was hard to admit that I was not the person I used to be. I learned that managing my illness doesn’t automatically equate to managing the outward consequences of it. As the co-founder of a startup, I've created routines that are freeing me from the guilt and overwhelm of work/life balance.
In this chat, I want you to learn:
- How to create a toolkit for your support system
- How to stay productive even when you're feeling sick
- How to come up with a reasonable work plan for yourself and your employer
- How to manage your health without compromising your work performance
Por Criss Cuervo.
Desde jovencita escuchaba acerca de la meditación sin embargo me parecía algo esotérico y lejos de mi alcance. Por mucho años leí libros acerca del tema pero aun no entendía cómo practicar o explorar mi mundo interno. Después de varios años de estudio y de práctica por fin empecé a entender desde mi propia práctica lo que era la meditación al igual que a experimentar algunos de sus beneficios.
En esta charla aprenderás:
- Lo que no es la meditación
- Lo que sí es la meditación
- Prácticas básicas para empezar este viaje hermoso de conocerte más
By Rita Mukimba.
Throughout my childhood, I knew exactly what I wanted to become - An Engineer. I grew up loving 'Berny & Friends', and also loving science documentaries. My mom still jokes about me opening up her radio at the age of 3. For both myself and my family, becoming a Telecommunications Engineer definitely felt like a dream come true. Now, I've found success and fulfillment in People Operations. Let's chat about:
- How to tell you to need a career change
- Using your background to fuel your next step
- Navigating challenges in a new career path
By Chantal Bradley from Surescripts.
As we learn and grow, so do our wants and purposes. I felt that my career in Sales was less of a want, and more of a “don’t break what’s not broken”, but I knew I had grown to be pretty technically savvy and absolutely loved interfacing with customers. As such, I started my journey from Account Management to Product Innovation and I couldn’t be more satisfied with my new role.
During our chat, I’d like you to focus on:
- How to best approach defining your purpose
- Defining tangible steps you can take to help move into positions cross functionally
- Being encouraged to not be afraid to fall, in order to get back up and succeed
By Cristina Alvarado, Sales Development Representative at PowerToFly.
I have always seeked for remote jobs. In that quest, I found many types of employers, coworkers, and clients from different backgrounds and cultures, and with a wide variety of expectations about how I should do my job. I've been told everything from "I don't understand what you are saying" to "that is rude". In this scenario, what is the best way for you to behave? How do you make yourself understood? How do you manage to influence on others? How do you get noticed by your employers? Working remotely has its pros and cons. Knowing them and understanding how to surf the wave can be the difference between your success or frustration at work.
During this talk we will walk through:
- The attributes you will need to succeed at a remote job
- How to understand and empathize with the background and culture of your clients and co-workers
- Indicators that will show your employer your value, as part of the team, and the organization
By Lisa Smith.
How old is old? In tech, it's 41. Staying relevant and resilient in an industry that is all about change can be challenging, but in this chat we'll talk about a simple formula that you can use to get all the jobs and stay in tech as long as you'd like.
You’ll walk away from this chat with:
- The steps you can take to stay in tech
- Strategies for staying relevant through the changes in tech
By Kelly Kugler & Anina Lambrechts.
Imagine waking up in the morning, and instead of rushing up to the office, you open your laptop, make your breakfast and start your working day, as you want, wherever you want and how you want. Is this possible?
Kelly and Anina work with clients every day to help them re-design their lives and many are focused on remote work life with no plans of looking back. While there are more opportunities for ‘remote work’ being offered by companies their definitions and practices may differ.
Working remotely, means you have control of your schedule, of your tasks and you are in charge of your progress. In other words, it means you are in control of your own work life.
Remote work is NOT office life in your home. Remote work allows you to organize your work sessions around the life you choose.
Block your calendar, take a break and go for a walk, turn off notifications and stop living on-call all day to react immediately to every message. Stop waiting for time when you can focus and create it, structure your day around you. Manage your calendar, don’t let it manage you. Your job doesn't own you, you own your job and you‘re more than just a job.
You’ll learn realistic examples and expectations for:
- How to design your remote work life?
- Where to find remote opportunities?
- You got that remote job, now what?
By Sienna J. Brown.
I used to never quite feel like I fit in, navigating race and identity between polarized communities. It wasn't until I learn that my uniqueness is my superpower and the resilience that Black women have taught me over the years, was I able to shine personally and professionally. I want to talk about Black excellence and the impact it has on society when Black women learn how to embrace their truest selves and allies learn how to support from a place of authenticity and intention.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- A clear understanding of the impact Black people have on society
- Tips on how to step into your identity and embrace your excellence
- Ways Black women can stop shrinking themselves to make others feel comfortable and how allies can support
By Melissa Whitehead from Kensho Technologies.
Throughout my journey, starting as a computer science undergrad at the University of Michigan, self-doubt would be a regular travel companion. If I didn't enjoy a particular class, did that mean perhaps I wasn't meant to be in this field? Years later, when my husband and I decided to expand our family beyond our dog, I had a desire to stay home with our first child. Would my career have to wait? Could I do both [well]? Would I be able to hop back in if I took time off? Over time, I've been able to reflect on the decisions I've made and hone my ability to weigh the trade-offs in choices life presents. Self-doubt, especially as a woman in tech, doesn't magically disappear one day...but like so many other aspects of life, you can learn how to take control of it.
In this chat, my hope is to help you
- Set yourself up for success in tech
- More confidently weigh opportunities & decisions
- Combat self-doubt along your journey
By Yael Gutman.
The frustration and disappointment is real when deployed products/ features don’t deliver the impact we expected them to have.
During this chat we will discuss how to re-examine and perform new analysis with fresh eyes after a “failure”. How to practice empathy to avoid the pitfalls of an “arrogant mindset” that comes with years of experience and success and remain open are receptive to user challenges and needs.
By Lauren Baptiste.
Are you losing control of your stress? Are you feeling "not-yourself" these days? As a Type A woman working up the ranks, the ambition that got me to the top was the same kryptonite that led me to a hospital, ill from corporate burnout.
From that "rock bottom", I had two choices: 1) push through, or 2) listen and pivot. After re-finding myself and redefining my health, I then founded Acheloa Wellness, a wellness coaching firm that empowers individuals and organizations to break-through the widespread effects of stress. I don't expect you to quit your job or start your own company, but I know that stress is prevalent. We all can benefit from actionable ways to thrive in this challenging time!
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- An understanding of stress on a deep level
- An awareness of how (and where) your stress is impacting every facet of your life
- Tools that will help you take the reins of your well-being
2021 is the year we shift from surviving to thriving. I invite you to join me in this important and uplifting conversation.
By Lauren Hagerty.
Are you growing into your next leadership position and feel that you're having a hard time letting go of the tasks you should be delegating? You're not alone! I've been there myself and that's why I'm excited to share some of my favorite tips regarding delegation and empowering our employees...
By Patty White.
Current data shows that 1 in 4 women are considering leaving the workforce due to the additional demands they carry as daycares and schools are closed or operating remotely. There is no better time for women and companies to consider advocating for job share work arrangements. I was part of a job share team at Hewlett Packard for a decade during which I was able to spend more time with my growing family while advancing my career and holding interesting operational management roles. In this chat I will describe how a job share arrangement can work even in a demanding, competitive work environment.
By Lorraine K. Lee.
Being on video isn’t easy. I learned this when I did my first on-camera interview at LinkedIn (with plenty of nerves) in 2016 with no prior training — but, to my surprise, everything ended up ok! That week I did a total of 4 interviews, and I learned that the best way to improve is to dive head in. Now I’m at Prezi, where we’re focused on helping people give better virtual presentations, whether in a team meeting or on the big (virtual) stage. My hope is that you will walk away with tips that give you confidence that you can shine on video. And while it isn’t always easy, it is entirely possible for you to achieve.
In this chat, I want you to learn:
- How to be more confident on video
- Best practices for video meetings and conferences
- Tips and tricks to become more visible on LinkedIn
We all know that having a personal brand is required these days. But how do we talk about ourselves when we can barely make sense of the themes in our own life? From a non-linear career path to unexpected life jolts that put a dent in the resume, I have been there, felt it, and want you to know that there is nothing stopping you from telling the most beautiful story there ever was about why you are exactly where you are meant to be and qualified to do what you want to be doing.
By the end of this chat you will learn:
- How to identify key thematic learnings to summarize your own story.
- Strategies for narrating your story with an authentic “brand voice” that is uniquely you.
- Skills for maintaining confidence in what you have to offer.
By Pilar McDonald and Lola McAllister.
As college students, it can be exhausting thinking about the looming decisions of having children and being able to balance that with our career aspirations. While it is an added stress, we both feel that we cannot step back and take the status quo in terms of gender norms in the workplace and home. We are here to stand up for working mothers now and to reshape workforce expectations so that other women like us can dream to have our ideal careers and families.
In this chat, we want you to walk away with:
- Actionable ideas to advocate for in your workplaces to have a more supportive environment for working women
- Steps on how to support other women in your workplaces/finding a workplace ally
- Feel validated in your anger/overwhelm and work together to feel hopeful for the change that we can make in the future
By Navya Rehani Gupta.
What is the difference between a good product idea vs. a great product idea that gets prioritized and becomes a reality? It's the pitch that shows great business acumen.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Strategies to identify product ideas that are needle moving for the business
- Skills to transcend organizational silos and learn the "product speak" to get buy-in on your idea
- Understanding the business behind your product team's build decisions
- Actionable steps to receive validation of good ideas without engineering resources
By Priya Amin.
My ability to separate work from home life has become more and more challenging as the pandemic has worn on. Technology does not help with this challenge either, with notifications streaming in on an almost constant basis. My ability to separate from my device has become harder and harder these past few months, exacerbating the imbalance of it all. In fact, the vast majority of remote workers find it increasingly difficult to separate from work at the end of the workday or workweek.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- The gaslighting disconnect between how our global economy values childcare and how deeply the global economy depends on childcare.
- New realities that working parents are dealing with due to the pandemic.
- How to respond to the needs of parents in your organization.
By Dr. Alexandria White.
I will facilitate an engaging conversation on how to be intentional and inclusive with your communication.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Tips on how to navigate missteps when communicating
- An action plan so you can transform how you communicate
By Nicolette Roses-Agoro.
We're all currently living in a time where we're craving the touch of another, the sense of belonging and desire for purpose. There is no one quick solution, but what I do know is that community can provide many of the comforts we're after. There is a virtual world filled with individuals who long for the same as what we do. I'd love the opportunity to help you see past what's in front of you and unlock a situation that you may not have stepped into before.
In today's chat, I'll be;
- Sharing my personal experience in creating a sense of unity and belonging through diversity in communities
- Breaking down divides and seeing each other as humans with a collection of experiences
- The role of apparently pointless “how are you’s” in the era of coronavirus
- Doing the activities you long to do, at a distance, and
- Finding and knowing when it's the right community for you
By Helen Sanchez.
How is AGEISM affecting your future and aspirations? Come learn effective strategies and tools that you can use during interviews and conversations with hiring managers to stop letting your years of experience prevent you from getting that job.
We’ll be joined by Helen Sanchez, the founder of Tanagui, for a 30-minute Office Hours session. With 20+ years of experience in recruiting, Helen has advice on how to best present yourself and spin your experience when applying for a new job. You’ll leave this session with new approaches for tackling those tricky interview questions, and the confidence to use them in your next interview!
I was raised in a household that encouraged civic engagement, but they sure didn't tell me the major place to focus was my local government. It wasn't until I was covering nine cities/counties at one time in Middle Georgia, that I realized just how much of my day-to-day life was decided within City Hall. Everything from police salaries and disciplinary actions to how many potholes would be filled, all discussed in front of a room full of drum roll THREE citizens on the average. Since realizing how few of us know how local government works and how to use it for community impact, I have been on a mission to spread the knowledge.
We'll talk about:
- The parts of your local government
- Your city councilperson and how to approach them
- Your right to public information and how to get ahold of it
- Starting with City Council meetings
Emotions are a great source of intelligence, if we learn how to share them, how to manage them, and how to harness their power - we can leverage them both in our individual lives and to help our teams & business grow.
In this chat, you will walk away with:
- A better understanding of emotional resilience
- Benefit of acknowledging emotions
- How to talk about emotions at work
In 2011-2013, in a radical transformation from the inside out, I learned Radical Transformation leads to creating a life and business you love in every way.
That’s when I learned that Radical Transformation requires every area of life & created Seven Steps to Success. I learned that transformation involves jump starting, unleashing inspiration, transformation with integration - of the practical things like - smart social, money maker, boss brand, and inspiring influence.
So I set out to create a framework that I could use to create Radical Transformation, a framework of 12 Themes of Transformation, to create a life & business & community you love.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Insights into Your Story & Why It Matters
- 12 Themes of Transformation for Your Life
- Actionable tips & tools to Transform now
When I began my transition to a career in IT, I threw out a wide net of trial balloons to see what career path would fit best and bring me the creative and intellectual stimulation I was looking for. I landed on a core career in Front End Development because it allowed me to fold in other skills and interests. When my base of clients became repetitive and I felt my skills getting stale, I decided to freelance again and pivot to looking for an in-house position. My goal was a collaborative environment with a career path in Front End. Clarus is a perfect fit. While I expand my development and managerial skills at Clarus, PurpleDog allows me to maintain a connection to design and direct contact with clients.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- A better understanding of the balance between your day job & side hustle
- Tips for leveraging your skills from your side hustle to fill your cup
The two of us had very different career paths, traditional & non-traditional. But what’s common is we both had a strategy in mind on where we want to see ourselves, figured ways to thrive in a male-dominated industry & succeeded to be able to mentor other women who are on a similar journey. We want to share what we have learned in making long-term career plans and advance in your careers.
Playing small doesn’t serve anybody, but what does it look like to actually leave a legacy?
Growing up in an ambitious family and an unusual school, I was always told I was going to change the world - but I wasn’t ever taught how. With a multicultural upbringing and nomadic lifestyle, I learned what Legacy looked like all around the world, and in doing so realized that anyone can knock out the fear to create a life they’re proud of.
In this chat I want you to walk away with
- Actionable steps you can take to clarify your purpose & legacy
- A scoring method you can use to check in with yourself, to keep you inspired
By Rozalynd Gaubault.
Setting tangible goals for yourself enables you to build a sturdy foundation for the rest of your career. I’ve been able to push myself, advocate for myself and build relationships with people that coached and advocated for me because I knew what I needed. In this 30 minute session I’ll share:
- How I’ve done that
- How to get on the right path
- Answer any of your questions about building a successful 10-year career plan
By Tsvetelina Lazarova.
“Being a boss” and delegating tasks is just micromanagement in disguise. In my experience, I learned that the inclusion of ideas - and empowerment of the people around me - really did produce better outcomes. Then again, how can one actually get to the promotion ladder of empowering people, when the promotion ladder is so hard to reach with nowaday's function of the corporate world? Obviously, it's easier to leave Senior Designers at their Senior positions, give them some leadership tasks and delay their promotions, until it's completely inevitable. Or so one might think.
I've struggled a lot with those, and not only, outcomes of the corporate design world and I've come to the conclusion that we all need a framework that we could use to combat micromanagement and corporate professional outcomes - a framework I'd like to call Purposeful Ignorance.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Actionable steps you can take to combat the micromanager in you, but also the one that is allocated to you;
- Skills to hone if you’d like to get into management;
- Delegation strategies for managers and team members
By Diana O'Leary
New Year, New Job! Finding a job or switching careers can be hard work, even in the best of times. With high unemployment and the uncertainty created by the pandemic, it can be easy to get discouraged or settle for second best. I’ll talk you through ways to stay positive, make progress towards your goals and hold out for the job fulfillment you deserve.
In this chat, you’ll learn about the importance of:
- Using a strategic approach for your job search so you get the most out of your efforts and ensure you can hold out for your ideal job
- Applying various mindset tools to keep you in the right direction, even if you aren’t quite sure where you’re headed
- Tapping your support crew while bypassing the naysayers
- Taking care of your psyche
- Having an identity beyond your job
- Knowing when it’s time to get practical and how to make the most out of your situation
By Avishag Daniely.
As a Director of Product Management in the Cyber Security Industry, part of differentiating my product wasn't just the security that it brings, but also the value, usability and confidence the product gave to customers. Understanding what customers need is a challenge and it's not always what you might think it is. Sometimes as product managers we might rush to conclusions and create a feature when there is no user on the other end for it.
In this session I will answer:
- How to approach product management with the customer in mind
- What tools you can leverage to do so
- How to adopt a customer centric approach when building a product
By Deepa Purushothaman & Rha Goddess.
We are living in a time where all of us are waking up to what’s happening in the world. And as we awaken as WOC, each of us is being called to reconsider our views on what power and success really mean. We’re being challenged to look at our families, organizations and institutions and within those halls -who has been entitled to achieve versus who hasn’t.
We are being invited to revisit what we thought was “true” about things we’ve taken for granted—from the quality of our leadership to the potential of our children. But nowhere are we more challenged, or more called, than in how we’re being forced to look at ourselves—who we are versus who we want to be. We’re being asked to defy the odds and push against the status quo in honor of a more authentic and powerful existence. But do we really have permission?
In this provocative conversation, we will share about:
- The importance of community
- The need to create brave, safe, new spaces to harness our collective power,to align with our purpose, and to lead as our whole selves
By Wanda Duncan.
Money is king, but maybe it's time for them to be dethroned. Let's be real, financial responsibilities/goals direct much of our lives. But are they decisions that lead us to be whole human beings? In this chat, we'll examine how soul work can provide our deeper, often unspoken needs.
We'll discuss:
- Healing from capitalism
- Giving yourself permission to connect with your soul work
- Forming the "work" around your soul
By Calicia Johnson.
Have you tried to turn your passion into a career? Did you land an interview but they told you someone else was selected because their experience was better suited for the role? Don’t worry, I have a solution! Even though I have a masters degree in mechanical engineering, I absolutely love recruiting and developing student programs! It's become my passion. Since I’m unable to gain experience with my full-time role, I’ve managed to find volunteer opportunities at work and create a passion project on the side to enhance my experience and skill set. When you aren’t given the opportunity... create one yourself!
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- How to leverage your current role to support your passion
- Tips on how to create passion projects to gain experience needed to land your dream job
By Meghan Stone.
I have spoken with so many individuals who have struggled with an identity crisis after becoming a mother. I've even experienced it myself. Suddenly, you don't feel exactly like yourself anymore. You have changed dramatically, yet the old you is still there too. How do you begin to redefine yourself and carve out the much needed space you need in your life to grow and flourish?
In this chat we will discuss:
- Why it is essential to take time for yourself
- Some mothers' need to "do it all" and why this is hurting you
- Actionable steps you can take immediately to begin feeling more like yourself again, whoever that may be
PorPaola Reyner.
Emprender me ha llevado a tener diferentes aprendizajes y he vivido grandes retos así como momentos extraordinarios pero de las cosas más importantes es entender que si te vas aventar a emprender tienes que estar dispuesta a ganarlo todo pero también a perderlo todo. Saber que el éxito no es permanente si no cíclico; y a veces es mejor dejar ir ideas, proyectos para mantenerte en el camino y seguir construyendo.
En este chat te platicaré lo siguiente:
- Cómo enfrentar decisiones difíciles sobrellevando lo emocional.
- Aprender a priorizar.
- Cómo optimizar tus tiempos con diferentes proyectos.
By Neysa King.
Several years ago as a new technical manager, I would dread our Monday morning staff meetings, which were comprised of 7 men and me. Each week I would listen to the men talk over each other for an hour, and I would leave without saying a word. I was operating under a story that everyone knew as much or more than I did; that my voice was not additive. One Monday on the drive in, a different thought occurred to me: I trusted myself. There was no way these other people knew any more than me, but they were taking the lion's share of the time, resources, and mobility available to us in that space. I decided to change my behavior and say whatever thoughts occurred to me, without editing. And here's what happened: some of it was received by the group, and some of it wasn't. Sometimes I wasn't challenged, sometimes I wasn't. The important thing was that I spoke up. I got to know my own voice, and with practice it has let me hone my story and my style. Fast forward a few years and I am able to influence a room not just of men, but executives, investors, and clients.
Storytelling is a powerful tool. But the stories we tell ourselves are perhaps the most powerful tool we have in achieving our goals and vision. What stories are you telling yourself that are self-defeating or operating out of limitation? How might you recognize these stories? How might you change them?
In this Q&A I'll plan to cover:
- How to uncover and articulate your personal story
- How to identify stories you are telling yourself, approach them with curiosity, and evaluate their value
- How to articulate your story to others at work and in life
- How good storytelling influences others
By Kelly Ukes and Steve LeClair from Waters Corporation.
Imagine this: you show up for an in-person interview. Prior, you made sure your technology worked, joined the virtual meetings early, and made sure the space around you was clean, organized and quiet. You were dressed professionally and ready with notes and questions. You made eye contact, addressed each question as best as you could, and tried to include unique examples from your past experiences any chance you could get.
Sounds about right? If only.
This is likely what’s running through your mind: My interview starts in 10 minutes and I am starting to feel anxious. I think I am prepared, but I really wish I knew what they were going to ask me.
If the second scenario is ringing a bell, this is the conversation for you. I, Steve, will be bringing my insights and tips as a hiring manager and I, Kelly, will be bringing my insights as a recent hire to Waters during a global pandemic.
We want you to walk away from this Chat & Learn with:
- The best tips to prepare for (and ace) your next virtual interview
- Strategies for making your application stand out amongst the rest
- Insights from the people who are/have been involved in the process
By Lizhi Dong.
For many beginners in the data analytics field, the first analytics project can be challenging, because there seems to be an ocean of information from various scattered sources, all sounding important. Although there is no end to learning, there is a generalized template that everyone could use to get started (and ship!) It is all about walking through the entire process. Hopefully, you can walk away from this session with a better understanding of what you need to focus on to deliver a satisfactory first project.
I will cover the following steps:
- Objective and scope: What makes a meaningful analysis?
- Data wrangling: it’s less scary than you think; what do I need to do?
- Exploratory Analysis: What are the steps and how do I evaluate them?
- Visualization: What do I need to present?
- Recommendation: What does your boss care to know?
By Shira Gershoni.
When I first became a product manager, even I wasn't really sure what it truly meant to be a product manager. 10 years have passed and still, every organization is tailoring its product manager suit in a completely different shape and size. So if there isn't a clear definition of "what a product manager is?", how will you know if you're the perfect fit for the job, and even more importantly- if the job is the perfect fit for you?
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
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Actionable steps you can take to identifying your personal PM strengths.
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Real-life examples you can leverage in your next PM interview
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A clear understanding of what your career path as a PM could look like from here on! (even if you haven't started yet...)
By NikkiFaye Tillery.
This discussion will give you the tools you need to stop playing it safe and putting off your dreams until someday and to begin discovering a life you love now by turning your passion into a digital profit.
In this chat, I want to focus on:
- How to create an income from your passion and the skills you already have
- How to scale your business and start creating a passive income
- How discovering a life you love can lead you to a life of freedom and peace
By Diane Bogino.
For years, the person who stood in my way to success was me. And guess what? I didn’t know how to get out of my own way to build my personal power, take charge of my life and career, and make things happen.
In this chat, you will discover:
- SOS techniques to build personal power from the inside out
- Why and How to leverage your internal network to build your career
- The Personal Power Questions you should be asking
- Why taking risks in career building is important
By Sarah Merlin.
Trying to break into UX and having a tough time? Is the constant rejection just too much to handle? Are you lost from navigating an unfamiliar career field? I’ve been there myself and now I’m here to pass my experience on to you!
Whether you’re a new graduate of a traditional design program, fresh off a boot camp, or trying to turn a side hustle into your next career, this chat is for you. You’ll get some practical advice, lessons I’ve learned, and my best tips to get your foot in the door of your next opportunity! Your questions will help direct the conversation, so make sure to submit them at registration or anytime before this chat.
You will leave this conversation with:
- Actionable steps you can take to land your next great job
- An understanding of how to best position yourself in the UX job market
- Ways to network effectively and efficiently
- Key questions for evaluating a prospective employer/company
By Antonia Russell, Executive Director at Bristol Myers Squibb.
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt yourself shrinking or feeling left out? Do you feel different than everyone around you hesitated to speak up? Do you feel embarrassed when speaking and have self-doubt?
If this sounds familiar, either now or at some point in your career, through this conversation, I will share personal experiences, a few tools, and strategies to stop leaning back and find ways to boost yourself and others up to derive enjoyment from your career journey.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding as to why you may be leaning back
- Strategies for bolstering your confidence to contribute in a way that reduces self-doubt
- Tips on lifting up others
By Stephanie Tung.
During my career, I’ve had my share of highs and lows. The lows can feel insurmountable - like everything’s, well, a hot mess. What’s gotten me back on track hasn’t been my own brilliance, but a diverse network of college friends, current and former colleagues, mentors, and sometimes even acquaintances. My “hot mess squad” gives me the space to be messy and honest, helps me see the reality of the situation, keeps me accountable, and builds me up to keep me moving forward.
I hope you can walk away from this chat with strategies & tactics for:
- Identifying who should be in your hot mess squad and why
- Leveraging your squad
Cultivating, maintaining, and giving back to your squad.
By Emma Seidman.
I know what it’s like to be in toxic workplace situations, more times than I’m comfortable admitting. From inappropriate bosses to isolation and betrayal to handling my own insecurities about feeling like a square peg in a round hole in places that weren’t my true calling—I understand the struggle. During our chat, my objective is to create a space where I can meet you where you are at and empower you to not only acknowledge what no longer is serving you with compassion, but help you confront it with strength and that Workplace Warrior mindset.
By Emily Hoang.
I was a young mom of an almost 3-month-old infant. Despite the sleepless nights, the constant diaper changes, and breastfeeding, I was thrilled when, in November 2017, I landed myself a new opportunity: VP of Engineering at Metadata.
In this chat, I would talk about how:
- Nervous I was about getting hired at Metadata
- The challenges I encountered
- The internal prejudices from (former) colleagues
- How I overcame my own imposter syndrome to build the product that had higher Customer Satisfaction scores than teams with 5x the headcount and 10x the funding
By Natalie Guillen.
Release the old to embrace the new. To get to where we want to go and to become who we want to be, we must know where we are and who we are today. Join us for the Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Taking Inventory of This Year for a Flourishing Next Chapter workshop to -
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Reflect on the wins and losses of 2020
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Capture the lessons learned
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Set exciting goals for a prosperous 2021
By Elinor Honigstein.
I used to find it hard to talk about my achievements. This tug-of-war between showing humility and showcasing my accomplishments played out daily in my professional and personal life. When it was time for me to advance my career, I’ve realised that if I wanted to be recognised for my work and become visible for opportunities, I had to fight through the discomfort and so I decided to learn and practise the art of self promotion. And guess what? Over time, I have increased the impact and visibility of my work and, as a result, more opportunities were open to me! I felt so passionate about this and compelled to help others believe in themselves and speak vocally about their achievements, and decided to train as a facilitator of #IamRemarkable, a Google initiative empowering women and underrepresented groups to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond. Now I am able to help others all around the world understand that talking about their accomplishments is a skill that can and should be learnt.
In this chat, you'll walk away with:
Actionable steps, including practical exercises and tools, to build a habit of effective and authentic self-promotion to increase your self-development and impact of your work;
A healthy dose of self-belief: an opportunity to recognise your remarkable attributes – small & big- and use imposter syndrome to your advantage
The ability to challenge the social perception around self-promotion, including modesty norms and unconscious biases, and become a force of change in your own organisation- help create a diverse, inclusive workplace.
As the pandemic hit the U.S. in the spring, I, along with my peers struggled with how to take care of family and friends - who many are working in essential roles and as front-liners. As Filipinos, we thrive being together but now we have to answer the question, 'how can we be together when we can't be together? Who is taking care of the caretakers of the world?" So we decided to take our destiny in our hands and face these issues by creating a space where the community continues to thrive - a virtual help desk providing reliable and vital information.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding of how you can positively impact your communities during this pandemic
- Strategies for building community resilience
Our dependence on technology grows each day, and even though we're exhausted, we can't seem to walk away. Our work, more than ever, depends on communicating via emails, IMs, and connecting through virtual meeting platforms. It's difficult to create a work/life balance, let alone a work/life/technology balance. Come learn about digital mindfulness and how you can unlock the triggers and behaviors that keep you away from what you really want: productivity, connection, and happiness.
In this chat, you will walk away with:
- A better understanding of how technology impacts your brain and behaviors
- Actionable tips to improve how you engage with technology both in your professional and personal life
How is AGEISM affecting your future and aspirations? Come learn effective strategies and tools that you can use during interviews and conversations with hiring managers to stop letting your years of experience prevent you from getting that job.
We’ll be joined by Helen Sanchez, the founder of Tanagui, for a 30-minute Office Hours session. With 20+ years of experience in recruiting, Helen has advice on how to best present yourself and spin your experience when applying for a new job. You’ll leave this session with new approaches for tackling those tricky interview questions, and the confidence to use them in your next interview!
You may think of Blue Cross NC as a health insurance company, but we are so much more than that. Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of our customers and communities. That starts with addressing non-medical factors called drivers of health – access to food, transportation, and housing. Think about it – if you don’t have consistent access to healthy, quality food, you don’t have a way to get to and from work/school, or you don’t have a safe, stable home, then those barriers need to be addressed before anything else.
You’ll hear from Cheryl Parquet and Tia Bass who are passionate about this topic. Cheryl was fortunate to grow up and experience life in a small town, but she also knows firsthand the struggles her community faced. When she became part of the solution at Blue Cross NC to invest in drivers of health, she was overjoyed with how our partnerships would make positive impacts on people in rural communities, like her hometown. Tia’s entire career and formal training has been dedicated to keeping people from getting sick and promoting healthy behaviors. In her role as an Analytics Consultant she uses data to understand the root cause of barriers that impact health and create interventions in partnership with our community programs that make a real difference in people’s lives.
As we continue to focus on drivers of health, it’s important for us to understand how health equity affects us all. Increasing health equity increases the opportunity for all to live the healthiest life possible.
In this chat, you’ll learn:
- The importance of addressing food insecurity
- How data can inform investment and intervention strategies
- Community investments and programs that improve the health of vulnerable communities
We've all been networking and interviewing virtual which can take some getting used to. PowerToFly's Events Manager Rob Ribar will share tips and answer your questions about how to get the most out of your virtual experience pulled from his experience of overseeing 50+ virtual events.
You'll walk away from this conversation with:
- A better understanding of building and maintaining connections through virtual events
- Best practices for showing up and getting noticed by others
Meetings are ubiquitous in every workplace & industry, but this pervasive activity is rife with problems. Conferences can easily be too large or lacking key personnel, overloaded with agenda items or without clear purpose. Worst of all is when the amount of meetings in your schedule leaves no time to do the actual work.
Whether your meeting messes stem from personal (dis)organization or company chaos, Yael is joining us to help solve them! Submit your questions at registration, or any time prior to this event, to help direct the conversation - you can even bring up your issue during the chat!
Join this session and learn how to make the most of your time and run productive, efficient gatherings. Never again sit through a meeting that should have been an email!
You’ll leave this event with actionable tips like:
- How to structure and follow an agenda
- Ways to identify goals and assign tasks
- Methods for boosting employee engagement and focus
What if we focus on motherhood the way we focus on our careers? I think you will agree that our chances of getting something we want to increase when we set a vision and plan. So why is it that we leave motherhood to chance? We do it because we've never been taught to think about it. Together we’ll chat about what you want YOUR Motherhood Story to be so you can start being more intentional about it in your life.
Al inicio de este año nunca nadie imaginó los cambios tan drásticos que estábamos por vivir y cómo iban afectar nuestra vida en general. Pero a pesar de las adversidades siempre hay esperanza. Redescubrí cuán importante es ayudar a los demás y mucho más aún en momentos de adversidad, los cambios experimentados en la forma de ver la vida y de vivirla son cada día un reto, por eso para mantenerse vivo no hay mejor manera de hacerlo que sirviendo a los demás.
En este chat quiero que te lleves contigo:
- Algunos consejos para estar siempre preparado ante cualquier situación
- Erradicar el miedo, angustia y demás temores ayudando
- Y como experiencias como esta te cambian la vida
Like most engineers, I used to see my job as building software above all else. But as I gained more experience at fast-paced, ambitious tech startups, I noticed that when engineers understood priorities, talked to customers, formed strong cross-functional relationships, and defined and measured our own goals, amazing things happened.
In this chat, I’ll talk about:
- How empowered engineers combine their technical knowledge, systems thinking, and soft skills to drive business impact and build products people love.
I used to think that my professional journey had to follow the typical routine of long commutes, dreading Monday and not being in control of my time or energy. Six years ago, when I realized the power of building a career that's made for you everything changed. When I realized that all of the things that made me "different" are irreplaceable, it allowed me to attract dream jobs aligned with the life and career I want for myself.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with...
- Clarity and confidence on how to position yourself for work you love
- Ways to identify what makes you stand out and how to use it to your advantage
- How to find company cultures that make you feel seen and celebrated
Cuando salí de la empresa en la que estaba por algún tiempo pensé que sabía mucho de mis talentos y que con lo que sabía era suficiente para lograr lo que quisiera. Con el tiempo descubrí más sobre mí, entablé nuevas relaciones de trabajo en proyectos y grandes personas que me llevaron a conocerme y modificar mis comportamientos para el éxito. ¿Qué estás haciendo con tus talentos y qué actitud tienes?
En este chat quiero que te lleves contigo:
- Pasos para aprender a conocerte y construir una mentalidad positiva ante situaciones difíciles.
- La manera estratégica para ir identificando tus talentos en cada paso que des.
- Qué hacer cuando aparentemente no pasa nada.
- Cómo activar tus talentos y actitud hacia el propósito.
There is power in language and far too often tentative language patterns compromise how women communicate and are perceived by others. This session highlights the power of “positive language” and offers 15 ways to ‘up one’s language-game’ to increase impact and confidence. Words such as “just,” “does this make sense?” and excessive apologizing can diminish one’s effectiveness in the workplace. I'll share strategies for identifying speech patterns worth changing, along with tips for success.
You’ll walk away from this chat with:
- Tips for how to improve your language choices for more confidence
- An understanding of why your language is impacting your professional growth
Have you ever been in a meeting where someone shuts you down when you try to talk? Do you know someone who speaks inappropriately and unprofessionally to you in public? Do you face challenges collaborating with a team or specific person because they seem to have a vendetta against you?
If you’re nodding your head while reading this, you’ve been dealing with jerks. I know personally, because I have dealt with many jerks at work - the type of person who seemingly ‘knows it all’, shuts you down, and ignores anything you have to say.
Do you have adequate strategies in place to deal with these types of people and situations?
If not, you need to join this one-hour session where I will share my tips and advice based on my personal experiences. I’ll answer your most pressing questions and help you approach the situation in a lighter fashion.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Strategies to cope with the difficult people in your life
- Tips for how to handle conversations with unpleasant colleagues to have a more harmonious team
"How can I use my skills to help solve climate change?" This question was first asked to me not by one of our students at Terra.do, but by my co-founder at our first meeting. He has a background as a tech entrepreneur and was struggling to identify that sweet spot of intersection between his skills, interests and impactful climate action. So we decided to create a program for folks like him—professionals from all backgrounds keen to contribute to climate action—and Terra.do was born. Our goal at Terra.do is to help millions of people transition into climate work because that's what it's going to take to really solve this global problem.
In this chat, you will learn about:
- The world of "climate work"
- The various ways you can be part of the solution to climate change, using your existing skills
From the time I was in high school, my dad would tell me he would ask anyone to help get me an internship or job - his clients, people on the street, clerks at the grocery store. I used to resist the help, determined to be independent and to avoid this guilty feeling I had about networking being transactional. But I knew that networking was an important part of building my career. It was only when I shifted my perspective and started to view networking as an activity that aligned to my value of building community did I start to bring confidence to networking.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Clarity around what networking means to you and what you want from it
- Guidance on how to approach networking in an authentic way
- Tips for effectively approaching anyone - from your closest contacts to pure strangers
Es difícil comenzar en la industria de tecnología y diseño teniendo sólo tu portafolio en mano. A través de los años me he dado cuenta que es vital desarrollar una marca personal. Tener una marca personal no sólo te abre las puertas a ofertas de empleo, si no que además te permite crear tus propias oportunidades de proyectos independientes relevantes en lo que buscas destacarte.
En este chat quiero que te lleves contigo:
- Qué necesitas definir para comenzar tu marca personal.
- Cuáles son los do and don't de una marca personal.
- Qué debes poner en practica y que herramientas son idóneas durante el proceso.
- Cómo tener una presencia digital pertinente dentro de la industria de diseño y tecnología.
I don’t need to sugar coat it - even without a global pandemic, competition is fierce for marketing roles. But just because there are more applicants, doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to shine among the sea of applicants. Join me for a virtual Q&A and learn the small ways you can stand out in your marketing application and interview!
Early in my career in finance, I was intimidated by the unwavering confidence I saw in the people around me. Sometimes it seemed impossible to muster the confidence I needed to overcome this intimidation. I learned to take inspiration from others and generate the confidence I needed to succeed. As I started to do this, I developed faith in my own resourcefulness and ability to identify the types of action I needed to take to get things done.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Actionable steps you can take to become more confident
- Tips on how to speak up when it matters
- Strategies to overcome imposter syndrome
Do you feel self-care is part of the answer but completely confused about how to fit it in? Are you trying to ‘lean in’ so hard that you’re worried you will fall over? Society sends us mixed messages. Throw in a pandemic and having a sustainable schedule with a family and career feels particularly elusive. I want to walk you through setting better boundaries to help you achieve the life you want to live.
From this chat you will:
- Understand the framework for how Moms prioritize so that you can better prioritize your life
- Discover how setting (and maintaining) personal boundaries is the antidote to ‘overdo and never done'
All journeys start with a single step - but when you’re facing an unfamiliar trail, making that first stride forward can feel scary & uncertain! Are you starting in the right direction? What kind of hazards might be waiting up ahead? How can you make sure you’re not lost or on the wrong path? Just like a map helps you navigate a new place, your resume can give crucial direction to your job or internship search. And Kelly Kugler, Founder & President of Allora Collective, is here to show us how to build a resume for a successful search!
Kelly is happy to share her expertise, but be sure to bring your questions so you can take full advantage of her knowledge! Your pre-submitted questions (during registration and leading up to the event) will help direct the focus of this chat, but you can expect to leave with these key takeaways:
- How to start a productive job or internship search
- What kind of connections you can make/foster to help launch your career and keep that momentum going
- Setting yourself up for success in a new position
After spending many years fighting the good fight to create empowered, diverse teams delivering great products, I found myself burned out and frustrated by the changes that I fought so hard for. The changes were largely unappreciated by people outside of the team because their values just weren’t fully aligned. This led me to focus on cultivating relationships with communities that embrace similar values at their foundation, eliminating the need to fight for change and instead focusing on creating impact. These communities gave me the support, energy, and inspiration to start building my own business and community with Carefully, allowing me to further integrate my values into my work and my life. I look forward to sharing my ongoing journey with you.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding of how to set yourself up for success while trying to build change within your community
- Strategies to avoid burnout while working hard fighting for change
Trying to break into UX and having a tough time? Is the constant rejection just too much to handle? I know all about that and I’m here to walk you through some of my personal practical advice, best practices, and tips/tricks to get your foot in the door for your next opportunity!
You will walk away from this conversation with:
- Actionable steps you can take to land your next perfect job
- An understanding of how to position yourself better in the UX job market
A veces vemos a gente que ha logrado tener mucho éxito, y tenemos una tendencia a pensar que ha tenido mucha suerte en su vida. La verdad es que tener éxito no es una cuestión de suerte si no una cuestión de pasión, perseverancia y resiliencia.
¿Qué aprenderás de esta charla?
- Cómo encontrar y cultivar tu pasión
- Cómo desarrollar tu perseverancia y ver obstáculos como oportunidades de crecimiento
- Mi ingrediente secreto para abrirte caminos y puertas hacia tu sueño
In a time where all networking has gone virtual (so long buffet tables!), how can you get the most out of virtual networking and hiring events as an early career professional? PowerToFly’s Events Manager will share tips he’s learned first hand over the course of spearheading 300 heads over the past three years. Rob will also be answering your questions as to how best to network in an increasingly virtual world.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Tips for how to best network virtually
- Strategies to make yourself stand out even from the other side of a screen
I started working from home 6 years ago - first as a freelance, then as a software engineer in an all-remote team in GoDaddy. During my time in GoDaddy I was promoted to engineering manager and helped my team members with their individual career growth. Last year I left GoDaddy in order to build my own startup, what timing - I know! In this chat I will focus on:
- What are the specific challenges (and benefits!) to growing professionally while working remotely
- The professional flexibility of working remotely
- How to get noticed as part of a remote team
Excelling in sales isn’t always about taking the easy road. Sometimes it requires getting out of your comfort zone and leveraging your network to help you succeed. I’m here to share some of the insights I’ve picked up along the way to help you excel in your career.
In this chat you will learn:
- Why it's important to take calculated risks both in your professional and private life
- The power to the relationships you build along the way
If you are a compassionate person, as most of us are, providing your direct reports with negative feedback is probably your least favorite activity as a leader. But what if it could be viewed as a natural progression of an ongoing conversation and not a one-off stressful event? Join me for a 30-minute session as we explore the important steps to take from day 1 to be able to deliver these crucial conversations without so much stress and dread.
You will walk away from this session with:
- Tips for effectively providing negative feedback
- Strategies for preparing for the conversation
At the time that I joined a then “Big 8” accounting firm in Detroit, Michigan, there was one Black female partner in an office of close to 1000 professionals (Deloitte & Touche, 1991, Betty Maple); and she was in tax, not audit. It never occurred to me that I would remain at the firm for more than a year or two since I had no indication that someone like me could succeed there. Fortunately, two of my professors planted the seed that I should consider returning for a PhD. And even more important, The PhD Project launched as I started the third year of my PhD program so that I had a network and the support that I needed to complete it. In 1994, I was one of the 175 minority doctoral students in business schools across the country. Today, I am one of the 1346 faculty.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding of why you should pursue the PhD program you’ve been considering
- The link between diverse education and diverse professionals
- How you can apply to The PhD Project
This chat is all about getting comfortable with accessing and penning your ideas with ease. I will be responding to varied writing needs right from what to do with ideas and how to keep them coming to how we can structure our ideas and improve our writing style. The focus will be to connect/reconnect with the writer in you. Because after all, writing is among the greatest gifts of life and we must do everything we can to make something beautiful out of it.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Strategies to connect with your inner creative
- Tips on bringing your ideas to life
- Advice on structuring your ideas to bring them full circle
Over the past 10 years, I went on a journey around the world, but at the same time a professional transition. I went from a newbie freelance programmer to a Software Product Manager and Startup Consultant having built a business around my expertise as a service.
In this chat, I'll share how:
- I guide my clients, tech startup founders, on the mission to conceptualize, build and launch their MVP in a super lean way
- I teach those clients to leverage the gig economy and expertise on demand
- People who want to get their foot in the door can do so using the gig economy
Did you know one in every five children in the U.S. comes from a Latino home? I believe these children deserve to see themselves in books, film, media, and all forms of storytelling helping to instill self-love and stimulate learning.
There are too few books, media, and content that speak to our communities. While the Latino student population is rising, they see themselves in their curriculum materials and other classroom resources.
I wanted to do something for my daughters to see both themselves and their mother’s childhood memories on the pages of a storybook. Storytelling helps to keep our culture alive, and I’m grateful to be part of a broader community of creators developing content that will inspire the future generation.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding about how you can help your children learn to love themselves, and their cultural heritage and backgrounds
- Tips on finding content that is representative of your family and children
- Strategies for how to use storytelling to help your child understand your story, and build a deeper appreciation for your culture
Program Management is a booming career option for many entry-level, mid-level and executive level professionals. Now more than ever Program Managers are in high demand across the tech industry. This session is intended for professionals wishing to move into Program Management.
Key Takeaways:
- Build an understanding of the "Program Management toolbox".
- Create an actionable plan to switch to Program Management.
- Successfully jump start your Program Management career.
For years I’ve been saying that my spiritual gift is telling people what to do, getting them to actually do it, and still have them like me at the end. My experience comes from leading groups of volunteers, teaching in elementary school classrooms, being an entrepreneur, a boss, a board member, and a consultant, so I've had lots of opportunities to refine this gift.
I'm excited to bring my tools and practices to support your journey around:
- Making sure you only commit to what you know you can do, and saying no when you need to!
- Delegating to others without ambiguity, and holding them accountable if necessary.
- Managing communication breakdowns in healthy, equitable, and productive ways.
Cuando empecé en Humanmind no me imaginé el alcance que llegaría a tener a nivel internacional. He ayudado a más de 200 personas de manera personalizada a identificar sus talentos, construir su marca personal para la empleabilidad, logrando tener resultados positivos. Partimos ahora con la siguiente pregunta ¿Qué estás haciendo con tus talentos y qué huella quieres dejar?
En este chat quiero que te lleves contigo:
- Pasos importantes para identificar tus talentos.
- Técnicas para conocerte y darle un giro a tu visibilidad
- Cómo lograr llamar la atención de tu perfil profesional a las empresas.
- Aprenderás a dejar una huella auténtica en cada paso importante que des.
Time and time again I've pivoted into relatively unattainable roles for someone with my background and demographics. Each time having to overcome naysayers and my own imposter syndrome. What I've learned over the years and am still learning is how to truly lean into what you know to propel you forward in a new position or while pivoting careers.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with skills that will help you:
- Face fears by letting go and being yourself within new roles and new teams
- Strategically use soft skills to get the technical job you want
- Advocate for yourself if you're looking to pivot in your career
If you want to discuss tactics, both personally and professionally to help you manage your day, then this session is for you. I love helping people work through things like personal habits, work routines, etc. in order to help them be most productive. I know for me personally, I’m not my best work self if I haven’t had time for me outside of work, and vice versa. I look forward to hearing some of the challenges that others are facing and creating a plan to push through them.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Tactics to help you better prepare for your days
- Tips on how to be effective in building routines
- Strategies to incorporate small acts of self-care to be your best self
Join us, Leang Chung, Founder/CEO/HR strategist/coach, and Cindy Kynard, CMO/Educator, as we share our career journeys through corporate, entrepreneurship and back again. We’ll engage you with a lively interactive session on how to share your voice, have impact and thrive today as women of color.
Did you know - Pre-pandemic, women owned businesses represented 42% of all businesses per Amex. And in corporate America today “49% of Black women feel that their race or ethnicity will make it harder for them to get a raise, promotion, or chance to get ahead, compared to just 3% of white women and 11% of women overall.” per LeanIn.org.
In this chat, we hope to help you identify:
- How entrepreneurship can be a viable avenue for growth past your “glass ceiling” or brick wall
- Key attributes, strengths and watch outs for your career, especially in our “new normal” of social consciousness and digital transformation
- Any pressing questions about how to market yourself
In July of 2018 life was perfect as I knew it...everyone was healthy, going about our daily life, etc. On a picture-perfect day in the Summer of 2018, while sitting on a boat with my sister, we talked about our future and retirement, little did I know that life would completely change about a month later.
My mammogram was scheduled August 1st, 2018, 1 year and 1 day exactly after my July 2017 exam. I had every excuse to postpone it being that the July 2017 mammogram came back normal, but I did NOT. The results from my August 2018 mammogram were normal besides a dense tissue and cyst in my left breast. Although I had to go back to get a sonogram, the callback was not concerning to me at all. After all, I have zero family history, I exercise 4 days per week, I JUICE, I breastfed my kids, I never smoked, I don’t drink alcohol. Every question on the medical questionnaire that might indicate something was a big ‘no’.
Then, my doctor confirmed my worst fears. In August of 2018 my life took a turn for the worst. On August 22nd, I received the call that I had breast cancer. This was not what I was expecting in the prime of my life, but I am here to share my survival story and share some key information about early detection.
I want you to walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding that breast cancer doesn’t discriminate
- Tips on what you should look out for
As a mom, the energetic demands on your life are different. But I also believe that there is so much more life force and creativity activated through motherhood - through the transformative process of pregnancy, birth and sharing life with a child(ren).
In this chat we will dive into:
- Travel
- Entrepreneurship
- Alignment
- Creativity
- Flow in the light of motherhood
Are you thriving in your career, but still feeling that something is missing? Are you a highly driven person with a desire to excel in multiple areas of your life? Let's talk about the struggle of fulfilling your “whole self”. I’m talking about pursuing ALL of your passions, not just your career aspirations. This isn’t for the faint of heart, this is for the overachiever.
You’ll walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding of how you can pursue all of your passions and feel fulfilled in that
- Strategies to help you celebrate the ‘little wins’ that us overachievers have such a hard time doing
As a mid-life career changer, I decided to take a leap of faith and return to school. I planned to pursue a Masters in Human Resource Management while working full-time and caregiving for my family.
Juggling these roles, in addition to trying to engage in the HR space, plus active membership in two professional associations was not easy. In the midst of this, I was nominated to be a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success, the nation’s largest leadership society through the university. These accomplishments really helped to make the struggle feel worthwhile.
In this chat, I will share my story, how I navigated this busy path, how I am still learning & adjusting to my new career, plus some insights to make your journey a little easier.
At some point in our careers, many of us have felt the itch/urge to do something different. To take on a new job function, or a new project because it affords us better career mobility, income, or simply because it better aligns with our interests or other personal goals. Pivoting careers can be challenging but is doable and often rewarding! I’ve reinvented myself several times, I am currently a Product Manager but I’ve worked in Finance, Marketing Analytics, Management Consulting and Sales.
During this chat, I will share practical tips on:
- What to consider when deciding on your next job function
- How to position yourself to hiring managers when transitioning
- How to set yourself up for success in your new role
My desire to take a career break started early on in my career. I had a good job but frequently felt burnout. As the years went by, the allure of climbing up the corporate ladder and waiting until retirement to live my best life began to fade. The real turning point for me occurred when my dad passed away — before retirement age. His untimely death inspired me to reevaluate my life, quit my job, and embark on a life changing career break which ultimately led me to the lifestyle of my dreams.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- A practical guide with 4 key steps you can take to put your dreams within reach (please see attached guide that I can offer to anyone who is interested)
- An understanding of the various career break options (e.g. sabbatical, gap year, mid-career break, etc.)
- Key factors to consider when exploring career break options
- Tips on how to turn your career break into a growth opportunity (e.g. career pivot, lifestyle change, passion project, etc.)
Making new friends as an adult is just like deciding what to make for dinner; it’s surprisingly (and almost universally) difficult and tedious, and no one ever seems to talk about the struggle! And if you thought making new social connections was tough, try adding the pressure of maintaining professionalism and it’s suddenly easy to understand why the art of introductions and referrals seems so murky! But Kelly Kugler, Founder & President of Allora Collective, is here to demystify this process AND help us understand how to make and use connections like this to our professional advantage!
Kelly is happy to share her expertise, but be sure to bring your questions so you can take full advantage of her knowledge! Your pre-submitted questions (during registration and leading up to the event) will help direct the direction of this chat, but you can expect to leave with these key takeaways:
- Who to ask & when to reach out
- What kind of connection you should make & how to ask
- How to draft a clear message to get what you want
Looking back on the last 20 years, many of the most significant aspects of my life, from career choices to spouse, started with a referral from a friend. I used to see this as good luck, or being at the right place at the right time - and of course there are elements of both. But I realize now that there are things we can do to make these kismet moments happen for ourselves - namely cultivating a community of supporters, putting intention out to our network, being able to effectively ask for what we need.
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In this chat I will tell you about:
- My journey from a first generation immigrant to CBD entrepreneur
- Share a few tips I have learned along the way about how to make serendipity happen through your network
- Talk about the wild world of cannabis wellness
Hi, I’m Elinor! I’m so excited to be here today to show you how you can find the deeper meaning in your work and stand out as a person who inspires others at work. I’ve been working with smart women just like you for over 7 years, helping them tap into their heart’s message and use their voice to stand up and stand out as the go-to leader & expert in their field.
You will walk away with:
- An understanding of what ‘deeper meaning’ really means in the workplace
- How to feel fulfilled in your current role
- Conceptualize why focusing on the deeper meaning of work will make you both happier & help you stand out
This Q&A with 25+ year field expert offers participants the opportunity to think about what we are each already doing to support transgender people and what else we can be doing. At whatever level of power and whatever type of work you do, there is always a way to do more. This is the opportunity to come together to learn from one another and to walk away feeling empowered to do better and to do more for the trans* community.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- A better understanding about how to support the trans* community
- Tips for helping trans* colleagues and peers feel accepted through your actions
With many individuals and companies focusing on expanding their global footprint, the need for a mobile workforce continues to be a priority. For US Citizens and Green Card Holders, there are certain tax opportunities that may reduce or eliminate the double taxation that can occur as a result of these situations.
During this conversation:
- I will help you to begin to uncover many of the mysteries of these particular tax filers.
- I will also help you to begin to understand what tax positions will be most beneficial in these situations.
It had been a while since I felt joy or a great passion to do anything. I would wake up, unwillingly open my laptop for work but even at the end of the day, I could get almost nothing done. I tried meditation and exercise but after a moment of calm, it all came back. I tried being positive, grateful and tried living in the moment. Not being able to do any of this successfully, I felt guilty of being an ungrateful wretch only to realize my problem was much bigger than this and meditation alone would not save me.
Having realized this, I focused on understanding the underbelly of hustle culture and why it inevitably leads to burn out. With this session, we want you to walk out with,
- Understanding how to set an actual work-life integration.
- Actionable points to help develop an inclusive work culture that focuses on belonging.
- Reaching a nexus between self-care and community care.
Between layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts and an ever fluctuating stock market, 2020 has been a tough year for many people financially. As we inch closer to a new year, it’s time to get our financing in order because without financial equity we can never achieve true workplace equality.
Join Candace McGee, Money Coach and CEO MFE Consulting, and Sheneya Wilson, Founder & CEO, Fola Financial for an interactive, in-depth conversation on how to start 2021 on strong financial ground.
Candace and Sheneya will be joined by PowerToFly’s Abigail Vachon, Lead Talent Advocate (and former Financial Advisor) as they share their insights and answer your questions on such topics as:
- Saving for the Future
- Investing on a Budget
- Getting Started in the Stock Market
- Being a Thriving Black Entrepreneur (and How You Can Be Too)
- And More!
How do you break your own glass ceiling? Everyone has aspirations and goals. Why do some people seemingly succeed and get what they want while others struggle and get stuck? What separates the dreamers from achievers?
We need to take action for things to happen to us, but taking action alone is not enough. We have to believe in ourselves, stretch our limits, and go beyond what feels comfortable. For many of the people I meet, they do not even dare to dream about what is possible for us.
The same person who’s limiting you the most is also the same person who can help you unlock your true potential and soar to new heights. Psst… it’s you!
You will walk away from this conversation with:
- An understanding of how to conquer your self-limiting beliefs
- Ways you can build the confidence in yourself to achieve your dreams
The United States 2020 presidential election has been declared "The most important election in U.S. history" by Biden supporters, Trump supporters, historians and the media alike. The estimation is that 4 in 10 eligible voters did not note in the 2016 presidential election, putting the United States far behind most developed countries when it comes to voter participation. "My vote doesn't matter" and "I don't know how" are the most common excuses that I hear from that forty percent, both within the United States and abroad, the first simply being untrue and the latter 100% solvable with the right resources. My family has always stressed the importance of participation in our democracy but when I moved abroad I almost didn't vote in 2018 because I didn't know how and now, after some simple research and resources on-hand, I get to help people vote every day.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- A better understanding about why voting is so important
- Tips to help those around you get to the polls
For the past year I've been working on building simple scheduling for parents. As part of this journey I've spoken to hundreds of parents about how they manage their kids' schedule. Through all these chats I was able to get some insight into what works well for families in different situations. Keeping the schedule wasn't an easy task to begin with and it became even harder now, with the pandemic. But while there are no magic solutions, there are steps we can take to make it easier.
In this chat we’ll talk about:
- Scheduling tips for remote schooling and remote work
- Tips for schedule management for different kids age groups
- How to engage the rest of the family on scheduling in a helpful way
Ser mamá es difícil. Es un cambio muy grande que afecta tu trabajo, tu vida y la relación con vos misma. Por ese motivo empecé mi blog para hablar sobre las dificultades que trae ser mamá. En esta charla vamos a hablar de:
- entender que la maternidad no nos condiciona
- aprender a organizar tu tiempo
- animarte a salir de tu zona de confort
- aprender a ver la maternidad como una oportunidad y motivación
- dejar las excusas de lado
- ABC de empoderamiento
I used to have major stage fright and considered myself as an introvert for most of my professional life. Working many years as a software developer in a male-dominated profession, I was afraid to raise my voice, being found out “as a fraud”.
I never imagined that one day I’d be standing on stage speaking about my domains of interest in front of 800 people, and they’d be cheering me on.
I never could have dreamed I’d become an entrepreneur and start my own global community platform, Women on Stage, showcasing hundreds of Women Tech Speakers, providing event organizers a huge pool of highly professional women to choose from for their next event.
Let’s chat about:
- Finding your true passion and turning your versatility into your secret superpower
- How to be an inclusive leader
- Championing diversity in your workplace
- Promoting social impact by being the change you want to see in the world
By popular demand, Bridget is back with even more great advice - this time for job-seekers! They say that you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and your résumé is the first thing hiring managers will see. So how can you make sure that yours is striking the right note? Professional résumé reviewers are everywhere, but such services are NOT cheap. Take advantage of this free event to get Bridget’s expert advice and make sure you stand out right from the start!
During this chat you’ll learn:
- Why LinkedIn mirroring is so important
- How to relevantly include the hobbies, interests, & extras that make you unique
- The best layouts and templates to build on for a solid first impression
Having worked at four start-ups in my career, it’s clear to me that not all start-ups are the same. They can range from an incredibly rewarding experience to an absolute nightmare. Doing research during the interview process can be hard, as there can be limited public information on the company and an obviously small amount of opinions from past employees. In this Office Hours session, we will discuss steps and tips to figure out if a start-up can be right for you.
I never liked the word "no". In fact, my father often told me that, as a child, he was fascinated by the fact that I rarely used the term as an act of rebellion like most children did. The word "no" has always conjured negative and self-deprecating feelings in me and, so, I avoided it like a plague, whether hearing it used by others, or in my own vocabulary. Nevertheless, after several years of being a professional actress I have changed my relationship with a word I once feared the most. I did this by recognizing the immense value of “No” and the favorable power it can bring to my life.
I was told I was terrible at "dealing with ambiguity". How could this be? My whole career as a Project and Process manager was dealing with ambiguity. This started me on my journey towards a career in Change Management. I learned the “missing link” present in all changes and most importantly, where to focus when change isn't happening.
70% of Change Initiatives fail! We see it in our daily lives (“I keep forgetting to have a mask ready when we get deliveries and then have to go running around in a panic!”) and at work (trouble introducing new IT tools, processes, transformations, re-organizations, etc.). As a change manager, I ensure people adopt change while reducing resistance, resulting in increased productivity, engagement, and return on investments. I'm on a mission to improve leadership for a better world!
During this chat, I’ll share the following:
- What a career in Change Management looks like
- The framework of successful change for people AND organizations
- Easy secrets for making change work for you
Are you cultivating relationships as you grow your career? Or are you neglecting valuable connections without realizing that you’re letting leads slip through your fingers? Regardless of the state of the economy, the hiring balance tips with too many candidates, then tips with more jobs and back again. This see-saw never ends, but it remains true that having a strong network will support your entire career. Kelly will share best practices to feed your network, what to ask for, how to ask, and why you should do this, regardless of whether you’re actively job searching or not!
Kelly specializes in transitions as a career coach which is often the more challenging path to take and requires strategic planning throughout the marathon to get results. Kelly will share her Job Search Tracker Template to help you organize your job search efforts, plus her special secret! How to map and then plant the seeds for your network on LinkedIn, growing them into the leads (referrals and introductions) from your connections that will keep you out of the inbox and get you seen by a hiring manager!
Over the past couple of years the field of Natural Language Process (NLP) has seen major advances and become even more of a hot topic in the AI space. As an Engineering Manager at an NLP startup, Primer AI, I work to develop NLP products and grow engineering teams.
You will walk away from this conversation with:
- A break down of some of the key concepts in this domain
- Major challenges facing this domain
- Actionable steps for ways you can get involved in this space
Imagine yourself being able to strike a conversation with just about anyone with ease and confidence. Yes, it’s possible… even as an introvert! I believe this is possible because I too am an introvert who learned how to achieve this through a lot of practice and easy to follow strategies. Join me for this Chat & Learn to get tips on how to overcome your fear of networking and turn it into a fun habit.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- How to use your strengths as an introvert to make meaningful connections in the virtual world.
- Actionable steps to grow your LinkedIn network.
- How to go beyond the initial connection to unlock opportunities.
How is AGEISM affecting your future and aspirations? Come learn effective strategies and tools that you can use during interviews and conversations with hiring managers to stop letting your years of experience prevent you from getting that job.
We’ll be joined by Helen Sanchez, the founder of Tanagui, for a 30-minute Office Hours session. With 20+ years of experience in recruiting, Helen has advice on how to best present yourself and spin your experience when applying for a new job. You’ll leave this session with new approaches for tackling those tricky interview questions, and the confidence to use them in your next interview!
“WHAT WOULD YOU LOVE?” This one, powerful question can ignite your imagination, open new career opportunities, and create a future beyond your wildest dreams. That unique skill that you bring to the table, those moments where you feel completely in flow and lose track of time, that hobby that has the glimmer of potentially being so much more, that great idea that keeps you awake at night … how do you make that “come alive?” Join creative life coach and certified Dave Ramsey financial coach, Carrie Nauyalis, as we all … wait for it … “do the hustle!” (I told you there would be song lyrics!)
Join this chat to take the next step towards your side hustle and learn:
- How do I know what the best side hustle is for me?
- What are the benefits of having a side hustle? (OMGOSH, so many!)
- How do you overcome the obstacles of time, money, and that threaten to keep your side hustle on the sidelines?
- What steps do you need to take to start your side hustle and start making some money?
Knowing how to tell my story has presented me with opportunities I could only dream of as a child - from receiving a full-ride scholarship to the University of Notre Dame to joining McKinsey & Company’s Atlanta office as a consultant. My ten-year old self, sitting in a classroom in Nairobi, Kenya, doodling ideas of what my future could look like would be so proud of how far I have come.
Today, I empower others to land selective, high-paying jobs that may seem out of their reach by teaching them to harness the power of their stories.
By the end of this chat you will learn:
- Three tips to make your resume pass the 2-minute test
- How to choose the right stories and tell these stories the right way
- An interview tip that is easy to learn but that most people ignore
As Managing Director at NOBL, an organizational culture and change consultancy, I spend my days guiding organizations and individuals through change. As you can imagine, this year has been especially volatile and has led so many organizations to question for the first time: How do we foster a healthy virtual company culture? Hint: There's more to it than virtual happy hours! In this chat, I want to answer all of your questions on what makes a healthy culture:
- What are the hallmarks of a healthy company culture?
- How can I make change once I know what we need to evolve?
Increasingly, more and more people are seeking a greater level of flexibility and a better work/life balance in their jobs. In the quest for these coveted work benefits, many people are shunning traditional 9-to-5 roles in favor of part-time opportunities. Sometimes, employees may be disappointed to find that a part-time role doesn’t carry with it the same level of strategic responsibility or challenges as their full-time work, which can be frustrating in some instances.
A possible solution, for both employers and employees, is to consider the option of a job share. This is typically where a full-time remit is shared between employees who want to work part-time hours. Let’s chat about the job-sharing model and how The Job Pairing platform helps by creating job pairs through a matching process and preparing them for employment.
Chat Takeaways:
- How to evaluate if job sharing is possible for your position, and if it's a good fit for you personally
- How to introduce & apply the idea to your workplace
- Tips to prepare for & avoid the more common mistakes made when job sharing
After taking time out of the workforce for several years, I not only decided it was time to go back to work- I needed to return. The question I was faced with was- How do I go back to work after this long hiatus and still feel empowered when there is so much noise out there that everything that has changed? Returning to work taught me two things, first, not to undervalue all of the lessons and skills that I had learned while I was not working outside the home. Second, that certain fundamental attributes I had before would always be there for me to leverage.
In this Chat I’d like you to come away with:
- An action plan on next steps to get back to work
- How to network/find allies/mentors/sponsors
- Next steps to pay it forward
As the amount of women in Security Sales increases, the “traditional sales journey” is being challenged. Women are driving a fresh perspective on engaging prospects among other things. As two women in Sales, we want to help you understand how to advocate for yourself in your career journey while building a strong selling team to help you achieve your individual and team goals.
In this chat we want you to walk away with:
- Tangible strategies on how to take sorry out of your vocabulary
- Gain a better understanding of the variety of pre-sales paths at your disposal
- Find more resources to help you be your biggest hype-woman
In founding SoapWorks, I realized that people were the secret sauce to any success. I could not build a $100M company on my own. To attract and retain the best people, I needed to create a “people” operating system to truly understand what energizes, engages and rewards employees in ways that matter to them and empower them to self-select work (projects/tasks) that was in better alignment with both their career and THEIR GENIUS! I used my Genius as a human behaviorist and my knowledge of building a community to discover what made people happy and committed for not the day but for their life, and to help others understand what they loved to do was in fact relevant in any company. This was the beginning of the Genius Key!
In this chat I want you to walk away with:
- Exactly what you need to become your highest and best self.
- Perfect alignment with people you care about.
- Understanding why other people do the things they do.
- How you recall and retain information & why that matters in EVERYTHING
- How giving & receiving (mutual reward) dramatically improves any relationship.
- How to shape outcomes by understanding your natural vibe.
In a world full of uncertainty, how can we best show up and "Lead Through the Unknown"?
Every day, people depend on us to show up and lead. In our personal lives, in our jobs, and in our communities. With the world facing so many challenges right now, and each of us adjusting to what may feel like daily or hourly changes due to COVID, what can we do to more confidently, and joyfully, lead through the unknown?
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- A framework for confident decision making in uncertain times
- Tools to help you, and your team, stay positive and creative
- Actionable steps you can take to grow as a leader
I thought I had my life figured out, until disruption changed my course of direction (my life). Rising in my executive career at NASA and in the Telecommunications industry was important, but not as fulfilling as feeding my soul with knowledge, adventure and being my own fabulous boss. How important is it to embrace your dreams, maximize your potential and live life with no regrets?
Takeaways from this chat will be:
- How to prepare to take a leap of faith to pursue your dream
- The power of acknowledging the small and large steps in the journey
- How to embrace gratitude everyday
- The importance of mentorship
- The importance of building a strong network outside of your comfort zone when you don’t have access
- How to manage the loneliness that can come from working on yourself
Do you have a plan to achieve your professional goals? One way to do it is through trial and error, but there’s a better and easier option.
This “secret to success” isn’t really a secret - mentorship is an invaluable tool to help you identify and reach your career goals. Learning from someone whose accomplishments you admire & whose opinion you value, can be just as helpful halfway through your professional journey as at the start. Someone who has already been where you are can help guide you along the path to success, even when you feel most lost. I was fortunate enough to have mentors throughout my career that helped me grow and advance in many ways, some not even obvious to me at the time. And without their help, I wouldn’t be where I am today!
Please bring your questions to this live chat, so we can demystify the search for the perfect mentor & help you get moving along the path to your goals!
Your key takeaways from this chat will be:
- How to find the right mentor for you
- How to build relationships to foster formal or informal mentorship moments
- How to maximize the experience for both your mentor and yourself
Does your employer have a mentorship program? If not, maybe PowerToFly can help! Get more details here: https://powertofly.com/mentorship/
Many organizations lack a user research discipline, even though it's been proven that research that drives user-centered design impacts the bottom line. User research is a big part of innovation and meeting new goals. If your organization isn’t focused on user research, you could be missing out on big financial and consumer gains.
During this session, we will discuss:
- Ways of starting a research program with actions that are small, nimble, and require little investment.
- We’ll outline how to demonstrate value to the organization and talk about setting and using KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to help overcome doubtful colleagues.
- Turning management into allies and supporters of your goals!
When I left the U.S. to move to Spain 6 years ago, I had no idea the impact that it would have... not only on my life but on the lives of other Black women around the world and for generations to come. Living abroad as a Black woman has taught me so much about myself, my history, my future, and the impact that it can have for those to come after me. When we learn how to rewrite our stories, on our own terms... that's when real change happens.
In this chat, I'll share with you...
- The impact that living in a different country has on life and those to come
- How to find professional opportunities abroad and build personal relationships
- Why freedom and flexibility are the keys to coping with racial injustice
Cuando comencé mi carrera como diseñadora nunca pensé que sería la única mujer en un salón rodeada de más de 30 hombres en una conferencia de tecnología. Es algo que aún me sigue pasando y es una norma que deseo erradicar por completo. Por tanto, siempre me pregunto ¿dónde están las mujeres en la industria de diseño y tecnología?
En este chat quiero que te lleves contigo:
- Técnicas para crear confianza en ti misma que te permitan mostrar tu trabajo y comenzar a participar de conferencias/eventos de la comunidad de diseño y tecnología.
- Cómo defender tu opinión y criterio como profesional en reuniones.
- Cómo erradicar el síndrome del impostor, aprendiendo y evaluando oportunidades de una manera realista dentro del contexto de la industria.
- Cómo forjar una presencia digital pertinente dentro de la industria de diseño y tecnología.
Being a stylist, I thought I knew everything about personal style until I had to create my own personal brand. That's when I learned that having tons of clothes was actually working against me and that consistency is key to establishing your authority. I created a strategic approach to define my personal style and create a memorable personal brand that excites potential clients and encourages collaborations. I use this methodology when working with my clients and they have ultimately seen their lives improve because of this change in mindset.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Actionable steps to define your personal style and use it to attract your ideal client
- Strategies on how to use your wardrobe to be instantly recognizable, memorable, and seen as a leader, someone to listen to, someone with natural authority
- Skills to create ‘get noticed’ outfits using the clothes you already own
Does talking about money and asking for what you want make you feel a bit nervous? Let me help provide strategies around navigating those conversations. I have negotiated THREE 60%+ pay increases on my career path. Yes, you read that correctly, THREE!
- Are you nervous about negotiating?
- Do you want to learn more about getting raises in your current position?
- Does mindset matter?
I'm here to share first hand knowledge of asking for things when it's uncomfortable (because, duh money talk is 99% uncomfortable!) and encourage you to take a chance on your success! Ask me the hard hitting questions, let's dig into this together!
Keep up with Amy at: amycullen.net or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/amycullen
Think you need to live in a tech hub to work in tech? Think again. After my one year stay in my hometown became permanent, I thought my dream to become a developer was lost. In reality, it was just delayed a few years until an open-source project helped me find the confidence and motivation needed to land a remote job.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding of how you can build your confidence and motivation to land a 100% remote job
- Strategies for building your profile to land your dream, remote tech job
Looking for new potential job opportunities during these unprecedented (and unpredictable) times? Then join one of PowerToFly's Lead Talent Advocates, Abigail Vachon, for a 30 minute “ask me anything” Office Hours session. Whether you are looking for tips on sprucing up your online profile or searching for suggestions on how to best interview virtually, Abigail wants to hear from you!
“Sorry, but we need someone with experience…”
UGH, sound familiar? Maybe you’re preparing yourself to hit this dreaded brick wall. Whether you’re brand new to a field or transitioning to a new industry, your career talent can be rejected all too often. From the ‘first look’ to even the final stages of the interview process, this feedback can be crushing, BUT Kelly’s here to help you break down that wall! Kelly Kugler is a career coach who specializes in transitions, utilizing the job-search curriculum she created to help launch her students into their dream careers in web development and UX design.
Whether the doubt creeps in at the 1st call or the last interview, Kelly’s here to help you prepare for these conversations & shut them down with ease. We’ll share Kelly’s exclusive resume template ‘Lead with Projects’ to show you alternate ways to guide people through your experience and address how to speak with experience during interviews at any stage. Get ready to dress your resume & portfolio for the part, as well as “talk the talk” from a place of experience. Your audience will stop questioning if you’re ready to step into this role and instead be able to clearly visualize you there already!
We all have individual career goals that bring us a sense of fulfillment, purpose and happiness. At the same time, as leaders we know that not a single person is as smart and as strong as the collective knowledge and wisdom of a well-rounded and diverse team. In this session, we will be discussing tips on combining both individual and team goals in a way that makes both the company as well the individuals successful.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- A better understanding of how to work as a team to develop the individual
- Gain strategies to recognize where your goals are aligned
Getting a new job with any company is both exciting and nerve-wracking. Will you be able to bond with your co-workers like you would in an office? Let's dive into these worries and talk about how you can make a good impression and make starting a new company as seamless as possible.
In this chat, you'll learn:
- Why video is such a powerful way to communicate on the job
- How it can help you make a good impression while working remotely
- Types of videos that can help you out at work
There was a time when I was genuinely overwhelmed and intimidated by the topic of finance. However, I faced my fears and began taking baby steps. Quickly I actually began to enjoy learning about this topic. The more I learned, the easier it became to take concrete steps. Soon after, I was able to share my passion with others (including developing and hosting a well-received financial literacy webinar at my workplace).
So if you're intimidated by finance and are not sure where to start, this personal finance 101 chat is for you!
During this chat:
- I want to share with you the importance of taking charge of your financial life
- You will be able to take actionable steps to start investing
- You will start laying a strong financial foundation for a better tomorrow
I said yes to everything! While I’ve had some amazing one-of-a-kind experiences, I’ve endured even more unnecessary stress from chronic over-committing. To get my groove back, I learned to break the cycle of yes related stress. One of the major issues I had to overcome was my own perception of saying, ‘no’. ‘No’ seemed negative, final, and harsh. Enter what I like to call the constructive ‘no’. Similar to constructive criticism, the constructive ‘no’ allowed me to engage with how I wanted to commit my time and energy in a more active, participatory way.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- An understanding of the constructive ‘no’
- Method for evaluating what to say ‘no’ to
- A few nice, yet firm ways, to say ‘no’
Hoy más que nunca los diseñadores tenemos un gran compromiso con la comunidad y las empresas para mantener a todos conectados a través de plataformas digitales.
Las empresas se han tenido que ajustar a la nueva normalidad en la que millones de personas están en cuarentena en sus casas. La mayoría de las empresas ya han pivoteado (o pivotearán) al mundo digital para sobrevivir.
Sumate a nuestro “Office Hours” donde Hannah responderá todas tus preguntas sobre cómo afrontar los retos que trae la nueva normalidad y qué oportunidades están surgiendo para los diseñadores gráficos, web & UI-UX.
My career path into the tech world is non-traditional and that's helped teach me different skills along the way. In different opportunities throughout my career, I have felt that being a young woman in the tech space left me at a disadvantage. In other opportunities I had seen the discrimination that women face in this industry. Through those previous experiences, I have been able to understand what is important to me in leading others and working with senior leaders, particularly men.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Tactics to gain upfront respect and credibility from senior leaders
- Skills to build a network from the ground up as a young woman in tech
- Ways to use assertive communication in order to be strategically outspoken as an IC
Throughout our lifetime, we spend much of it collecting new skills and not realizing it. I discovered this when I started my own company and noticed that I’ve been building an expansive inventory of skills that prepared me for the career pivot from corporate leader to entrepreneur. I want to share my skills inventory framework and empower you with the knowledge to ace that job interview, make a career pivot or prove you’re ready for that next promotion!
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- An understanding of what a skills inventory is and how to use it
- Actionable steps to build your own skills inventory
- Actionable steps to acquire the skills you need to qualify for your next job
In this chat, Haleh will share why it's so important to practice patience and self love when it comes to nutrition. Through the lens of food, she'll show you how to embrace your body as it is today, ditch diet culture, and set realistic, attainable, long-term health goals.
Delegation is the single most valuable skill to master for a good manager to become great. If you want to grow your team and your own career then the art of delegation is a must-have. I call it art and not science because I feel that’s what it is—continuously and creatively weaving the goals to the aspirations of the team. Learn this and you have charted a road to success for your team and your own career.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding of what delegation truly means
- Why delegation is important
- How it can make both you and your team more effective in your day-to-day
Job searching is debilitating. COVID has only exacerbated an already broken system. When I pivoted to law in 2017 after a long career in entertainment, PR, and nonprofit, I was shocked by how different and difficult the landscape was. I mistakenly believed that being qualified and having the required skills was enough to land a job. When that job didn’t come to fruition, I set out to create a rewarding career on my own terms, rather than settling for less or trying to fit in.
In this conversation, I want you to walk away with:
- Ways to determine your strengths based on your personality and what types of roles fit those strengths
- Identify exactly what kind of companies you want to work for
- Actions to take for improving the interview process
- Ideas for networking, informational interviews, and getting help from your tribe
I woke up 15 years into my career with a sinking feeling that what I was doing wasn’t “it”. The second that I graduated college, I had an ongoing background anxiety of what having children would do to this career that I’d poured my blood, sweat and tears into.
It was that anxiety which led to research, which led to obsession, which led to building a company who helps 100s (someday millions) of women feel confident, develop the skills they need, and land rewarding work that uniquely fits them.
You’ll walk away from this chat with:
- Real-talk on being torn between career and kids
- Tools to reposition anxiety into action
- Insights on how transferable skills + natural EQ skills can get you a job
Back in 2017, I found myself depressed. Fresh out of a toxic relationship, with a failed vintage boutique, a mountain of debt, and an impounded car. I am a product of extreme generational poverty and I somehow became what I swore I'd never become. A single mom in the food-stamp line. I got a job at Starbucks because it was in walking-distance & may as well done so with a bag over my head, I was so ashamed. I so desperately wanted to leave my reality behind and create something bigger. I felt a tugging at my heart that there was something bigger meant for me. This couldn't be it. So I jumped in and fought for the life I wanted.
Just six months after I'd gotten myself into this pickle of a reality, I was raking in 7k months with my branding and wedding photography business. I pushed myself, I accepted my shortcomings, and nurtured my superpowers.
In this chat I want you to walk away with:
- A clear plan of what your why is and how to use that to fuel your success!
- A newfound friendship with fear and imposter syndrome. You can work together!
- Tips to turn your Instagram followers into paying customers. No matter your following, no matter your business!
Attaining financial freedom is possible only when you properly position yourself to do so. The quickest way to multiply your income is through the use of strategic investing. During this workshop, we will discuss ways in which you can leverage different investment vehicles to increase your personal net worth.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- A better understanding of how to invest intelligently
- Strategies to multiply your income
Over 16 million people in the US are currently unemployed - if you're one of these people, how are you feeling right now? Angry? Sad? Are you in shock? I've been in this situation twice now, once early in my career when I was relatively new to leadership and once quite recently. If there's anything certain about this number and what I've learned through my own experience is that you're not alone, that there is light at the end of the tunnel, and a community of strong women here to support you through the journey.
Join me as we examine the wide range of emotions that accompany finding out bad news - whether it's being replaced, let go, or the dismissal of an entire team. Even more importantly, let's discuss how we can cope, how to help our teams cope, and move past this moment in our lives and come out on top stronger.
I've taken the approach of a career lattice vs. ladder, myself. About ten years ago, I left a Chief Information Security Officer role to join a larger company as an individual contributor. At the time a lot of people couldn't understand why I made this decision and thought I'd never be able to get another leadership role. Needless to say, this hasn't been the case for me and I am excited to share my story and show you why you don't always need to take the familiar path to progress in your career.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- The confidence to take a non-traditional career path without stunting your career growth
- Tips for how you can make changes to your career plan to keep climbing the ladder or crossing career bridges
Did you know that PR can be a visibility powerhouse for your small business? In this chat, you'll learn an easy, modern, small business-friendly approach to building trust and familiarity in your brand. We'll focus on getting you featured in places your dream clients hang out: guest spots on their favorite podcasts and YouTube channels, collaborations with other brands they love, and more. These methods will be simple, free, and best of all, effective.
Large corporations have been amassing huge profits at the expense of their customers, their employees, the environment, and society as a whole. Unfortunately for these corporations, the democratization of information has given consumers the power to demand transparency from the businesses they interact with and hold them accountable for their actions. These days, we don't just care about the products and services that businesses create; we care about the companies behind them, their actions, and how those goods are produced.
In this chat, I hope to:
- Introduce you to the core concepts of corporate social responsibility
- Offer suggestions for how corporations can become more ethical
- Help you identify companies (and employers) that are genuinely committed to social responsibility
I have been a Woman in Tech before it was a “thing”. I have a Computer Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin and have been in the Retail Technology sector for almost 20 years. When I first started my career back in the year 2000, I was one of 2 women on my team but the ONLY black woman in the company. Being the “first” or the “only” in most anything is a daunting task. During this Chat and Learn session, I want to talk to you about my experience being in this position and how I help others who are in this position today.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Strategies on how to gain buy-in and respect from the majority of your team
- The understanding that if you are the first or the only, you can help to create a more inclusive space for the other diverse people who may join the team
Regina Wallace-Jones is a tech executive and the Mayor of East Palo Alto, California. 2020 has presented substantial challenges and triumphs but she has found that leading authentically has amplified her power and strengthened outcomes for her company AND her citizens. Learn how she manages responsibilities in both of her fields and be inspired by her resolve to be hopelessly imbalanced, fully utilized, and magnificently fulfilled.
What you'll take away from this chat:
- How to identify your own most authentic leadership style
- How to balance competing responsibilities
- How to adjust to challenges & reframe them as opportunities
As a multiracial woman in a white, male-dominated industry, I struggled to find my place. The first year of my career I found myself leaving parts of who I am at the door in an effort to fit in. I thought this act of self-preservation would lead me to a seat at the table, what I quickly learned is being inauthentic was not only career limiting but exhausting. Ten years later, I’ve earned my seat at the table and I’ve done so by being my authentic self and owning my brand. Whether you’re a woman working in a male-dominated industry or the only Person of Color in your department, this chat is designed to help empower you to leverage your authenticity and to cultivate a brand that is uniquely yours.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- A better understanding of why it's important to bring your authentic self to work, no matter your industry
- How to feel more confident in unapologetically being yourself
It's no secret that the pandemic has affected just about every aspect of our lives. From the way we visit with friends & family (socially responsible, of course) to the day-to-day of our jobs. Join me for an open discussion about being effective as a sales leader when the team is challenged to meet goals in the current economic environment. I'll discuss how to pivot when it feels like your back is up against the wall. I'll talk about how we've adapted as a team and how innovation has helped us to provide solutions to the problems we are facing today.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Motivation to help you and your team meet your goals
- An understanding of the importance of being open to new suggestions and ideas
This Q&A with 25+ year field expert offers participants the opportunity to think about what we are each already doing to support transgender people and what else we can be doing. At whatever level of power and whatever type of work you do, there is always a way to do more. This is the opportunity to come together to learn from one another and to walk away feeling empowered to do better and to do more for the trans* community.
How is AGEISM affecting your future and aspirations? Come learn effective strategies and tools that you can use during interviews and conversations with hiring managers to stop letting your years of experience prevent you from getting that job.
We’ll be joined by Helen Sanchez, the founder of Tanagui, for a 30-minute Office Hours session. With 20+ years of experience in recruiting, Helen has advice for how to best present yourself and spin your experience when applying for a new job. You’ll leave this session with new approaches for tackling those tricky interview questions, and the confidence to use them in your next interview!
Parents, we all know that we want to raise culturally-conscious children, but how can we do that and what does that look like? While it’s daunting to jump-start these conversations with your child, we have effective strategies to help you connect in easy, fun ways. Culture is a part of social-emotional intelligence, a necessary currency in today’s globally connected environment. Give your child the gift of broadened horizons and unlimited potential now.
In this chat, we want you to walk away with:
- An understanding of the importance of cultural competency and how it will affect your child’s education, workplace, social interactions, and overall sense of well-being
- Steps and strategies to engage with your children
- Culturally-sensitive resources
In 2013, I realized that children were not learning the skills and tools to be able to create and communicate with the world around them. Armed with just a laptop in my living room, I set out to change that. After years of hustling hard to secure funding, Kids Code Jeunesse is one of Canada’s leading digital education charities, teaching hundreds of thousands of kids and educators from coast to coast to coast about artificial intelligence, coding, digital citizenship, ethics & the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while retaining our purpose-driven style of operating.
From this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- Strategies for pursuing your purpose - and finding the tenacity and grit to keep pursuing it.
- Tips on staying on course to make impact, and how to achieve it strategically and with intent.
- How to get the attention of industry and government to listen to your cause.
It’s no secret that successful women in tech seem to be an anomaly. While many companies have succeeded at marketing to female technologists, getting their applications and essentially hiring them - retaining these women throughout the entirety of a woman’s non-linear career is an added challenge. This chat will discuss the good, bad, and ugly truths about the historic lack of diversity in the tech space and the strides CNN is making around prioritizing diverse voices. You’ll get the chance to ask Kimberly & Kati anything about their impressive careers at CNN and what keeps them passionate about the work they're doing.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- A better understanding of why diversity is important to CNN
- What the team at CNN is doing to prioritize diverse voices and tell different stories
- What to consider as a female technologist when accepting a new role
Snapchat is known for ephemerality, aka disappearing messages. But what happens when messages don’t disappear? We’re not talking about silly pictures or overly expressive chats, we’re talking about messages around whose voice gets heard and who gets a seat at the table. Some of these messages are so ingrained in the story of tech that we can’t even see them anymore.
So how do we change that story? We start with living in the moment and embracing failure.
Admitting to being less than perfect is hard for most people, but for a female in IT in the financial industry, it is one of my biggest fears.
For a large portion of my career, I worked hard to appear confident and knowledgeable in all settings, never letting my inexperience show. Then, I became the COO for a newly created Digital Division of a large financial services company. My main mission as Digital COO was to change the culture of the organization to be more nimble, to value progress over perfection, to encourage micro decision making, to test hypotheses and to applaud every failure. It was here, that I realized these values don’t just apply to organizations, they apply to people as well. By showing my inexperience, by asking questions, by asking for help, and by marrying all of that with my personality, leadership style and experience – I have been able to adopt a growth mindset, which in turn has allowed my career to flourish, branching out into areas of both technology and business that I never thought possible.
Out of this chat, I hope you walk away with the following:
- For teams you are leading: Learn how to create a short, tight cycle of hypothesize, test and learn. Applaud every “failure” in order to find the learnings and growth that emerge. Pivot often and embrace the mantra, “If you don’t try, you never succeed.”
- For yourself: Learn to ask questions, to ask for help, to rely on others and to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Value the foundation of experience you have built and use it to branch beyond. Pivot often and embrace the saying, “If you don’t try, you never succeed.”
While pursuing Computer Science as my undergraduate degree, I discovered the sheer joy of writing code. Realizing the amazing things I could build, the challenging business problems I would solve using technology, pursing software engineering became an obvious career choice.
After working in the IT industry I learned a few things - like all professions, there are pros and cons to this profession as well, and I wish I had known about these before I became a software engineer. So if you're thinking of pursuing a career in software engineering, join me for this chat!
After this chat,
- You'll understand what a software engineer does.
- You'll learn about the pros and cons of the software engineering profession.
- You'll be able to make an informed decision if you should be pursuing software engineering.
The General Data Protection Regulation, aka GDPR has ushered in a new era in the realm of privacy regulation. The successor to the European Union Directive of 1995 governing data privacy, the GDPR is the latest and most comprehensive privacy regulation in the international business landscape.
Privacy regulations are not new, but what makes GDPR so different is its wide scope and the massive ramifications in terms of how data is handled and processed and of course, the colossal penalties in case of breach. This has led to companies worldwide, scrambling to get GDPR compliant. But this regulation seems to raise more questions than answers.
If you have ever wondered, “What exactly is GDPR and how does it apply to my organization?," OR, "How do I get GDPR compliant and what happens if I do not?," then you are at the right place.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with the ability to:
- Identify the key principles of GDPR
- Recognize the Key players; their rights and obligations
- Ascertain if you are subject to GDPR and become compliant
With both of our extensive experience in managing and building teams at top companies, we know what it takes to make collaboration work and climb the ladder. We will bring insights and experiences to help women advance. We will share some of our own experiences and help other women gain the confidence they need to advance in their professional journeys. These insights will come from our Hello Career Guru research among our C-suite executives.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Insights about how to work effectively with a diverse team
- Strategies to enhance your leadership skills to move up the ladder
In my 40+ years in corporate America I became very familiar with ageism in the workplace. I will discuss why we must never let ageism dictate the future for us. I will share different tools and approaches to deal with this discriminatory practice so you can take your power back and move forward.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding of how to present yourself when applying for a new job
- Gain the confidence to stop letting your experience feel like a factor that takes you out of the job search
- Strategies for approaching the interview process and hiring managers
As an Asian American woman in Research and Engineering, I know it can be both exciting and challenging to navigate the corporate workplace. I have had the pleasure of working with many amazing leaders and I have learned a lot from them. I experimented with a lot of different techniques and regularly reflected on myself. In this process, I learned how to stay true to myself and bring my vision and values to my everyday work.
During this chat, we will cover:
- Create a success plan for your current role and a gap plan for your next role
- Take an initiative and pitch an idea
- Build credibility and get invited to take part in important initiatives
I have negotiated THREE 60%+ pay increases by asking for what I want on my career path.
- Are you nervous about negotiating?
- Do you want to learn more about getting raises in your current position?
- How do you even figure out what to ask for?
I'm here to share my story of asking for things when it's uncomfortable (bc duh money talk is 99% uncomfortable) and encourage you to take a chance on your success!
I am a working mom with four children. For years, I have been neglecting myself and always putting myself last.
Work, kids, and house duties always came first. Until I decided that I deserve more in life, and I decided to put myself first. I took a drastic change in my life from eating habits, exercise, and doing things I love. I live every day as it is the best day of my life.
Want to learn how you can do that too? Join me on this virtual chat, and I will answer all your questions.
Globalization is making us 'closer' by having to work with teams across geographies. However, are you truly close to your teams? Do you have the same connection with people from different cultures, in different locations? I believe that connected teams are happier teams and happier teams are more productive. Join me to learn about building cultural sensitivity and establishing a harmonic work culture.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding of why cultural sensitivity is important
- How to create a more harmonious workplace with people across different cultures and timezones
Just like a company’s brand, your personal brand in the workplace is defined, in part, by relationships and reputation. Personal branding is a way of establishing and consistently reinforcing who you are and what you stand for in your career and life. What value do you “promise,” so to speak, to deliver to the organization? This workshop will help strengthen your personal brand within your organization and beyond.
After this workshop attendees will know:
- How to build brand equity with your coworkers.
- How to identify other key influencers within your organization.
- How to market your value.
I was eager to begin a new chapter in life. Expecting my rainbow baby and relocating to a new state for a new corporate position at the largest employer in the area. This transition in my career took a sudden turn into what would be my worst career experience, ever! Being the only person of color on my team, breastfeeding, and returning to work only three weeks after my son was released from the NICU taught me more about my faith, resilience, and power to fight back. For some, maternity leave is not leave at all.
Leave this chat with:
- Some best practices of cultural competency for hiring, retaining and creating an inclusive environment within the workplace
- Insight into the experience that pushed me to start my own business
- Awareness of why companies fail at creating and retaining an inclusive work culture for working moms
These techniques that we will share will help to fill the space between knowing you are incredibly talented and effectively conveying it during interviews or other conversations that can be intimidating. They can all be applied to phone calls or video chats. During this chat we will personalize these techniques based on your questions:
- PREPARE your career stories to bring your resume to life and build rapport by understanding your audience.
- ORGANIZE your setup for your convenience. Arrange your notes, resume, etc to be easily accessible to avoid the distraction of searching for them in real-time.
- BE INVOLVED in the conversation and when appropriate ask them how their question applies to their team or the role. [You don’t have to wait until the end to ask questions nor do you need permission!]
- CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN by setting up your environment to be as comfortable as possible and help yourself to be confident.
- IT’S ALL ABOUT THE VOICE because our voice leads our energy and attitude. A secret to keeping your voice positive is to smile which naturally (for most of us) makes the inflections of our voice perk up. Keep a picture or something that makes you happy in your eye line as a reminder to maintain your positive energy with a smile.
Do you suffer from imposter syndrome? Imposter Syndrome is that overwhelming, and at times, debilitating feeling that you don’t belong. It affects women and minority groups disproportionately. Learn how to overcome imposter syndrome and start believing in yourself.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- A better understanding of imposter syndrome and how you can overcome it
- Strategies to gain more confidence in yourself
For most of my life, I had no idea that perfectionism was my greatest enemy, especially when it disguised itself so beautifully as motivation and aspiration. I knew it wasn't just my calling, but my duty to share the magic remedy with the rest of the world desperately struggling with this issue. As a recovering perfectionist, through my book, my talks, and my coaching programs I offer people the opportunity to identify how perfectionism has impacted their life personally and professionally. I also give actionable tools everyone needs to regain their peace, confidence, and happiness.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- A better understanding of how to choose happiness over perfection
- Tools to regain your peace
This information session will provide you with the right financing strategies for your small business. Small businesses are key drivers of growth, and that growth is fastest among minority and women entrepreneurs, however many of these entrepreneurs lack access to appropriate financing. This presentation will discuss solutions.
During this information session, you'll learn about:
- Available financing products for entrepreneurs of color
- How to find the right financing partner for your business
- How to develop a game plan for your financing needs
- What lenders look for in a business loan application
There is no doubt that these are stressful times. Conflicts can easily surface in this environment. How we handle conflicts, especially now, can really make an impact in our careers. As an IC or a leader, what can we do to pacify a situation when we’re experiencing conflict?
You will walk away from this chat with:
- An understanding of how to better approach conflicts in the workplace and how to ease them
- Gain strategies for defusing work conflicts as a leader
- Tips to improve harmony within the workplace during these stressful times
Getting a handle on how we make, spend and manage our Black dollars is a key power that’s been diminished for too long. This fact has only been reinforced as I continue to coach Black millennials. There’s great strength in our economics and this goes beyond shopping with Black owned businesses. Here’s what I want you to learn from this chat:
- How to build resistance through your retirement and investment accounts
- Why money dates help the culture
- How credit cards can increase your reach without increasing your debt
Tired of hearing about burnout and the importance of self-care AND still feeling stressed out after taking that over-recommended bubble bath? Let's get real about what self-care really looks like and why it's still an aspirational concept for us. During this chat, we will workshop through 4 key steps to making self-care a daily reality. Come with pen and paper and be ready to craft a self-care plan that works for you.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Actionable steps you can REALLY take to move towards a daily self-care routine
- A better understanding of what self-care looks like for you
If you are having trouble focusing amongst everything happening in the world today, find yourself cleaning your closet to avoid sifting through LinkedIn for a hint at what you should be doing for a living, or just think it would be so be nice if you could just watch Billions in peace knowing your career planning was on track, you are not alone! We'll be sharing tips and tactics for how to stay reset and stay motivated throughout the rest of 2020. You’ll learn skills to stay motivated in even the most annoying of times.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Some of our favorite tips on how to keep the motivation up through the bad news
- How to effectively network to avoid getting bogged down by endless connections that don't seem to get anywhere
Just like a product or service depends on its brand to establish it’s voice, tone, values, and appeal of their agency, you as a valuable professional need also exhibit your brand qualities. You own the skill set, but what is your personality, your beliefs, your desire, your individual stamp.
Before COVID-19, PowerToFly regularly presented up to a dozen in person events each month, all around the world but like everyone else, we’ve gone entirely virtual. When in-person events return, what will they look like in a post-pandemic world? PowerToFly’s Events Manager Rob Ribar will discuss the benefits of live vs. in-person events and how the events industry might evolve.
The good, the bad, the joy. Join three of our international PowerToFly team members as they chat about the challenges and lessons learned living abroad. Whether you are currently living abroad, planning to do so in the near future, or just curious about this topic, join us! Wherever you are. We’d love to make this into an interactive conversation!
Now 2 years into my career, I’ve noticed not many people talk about their emotions openly, let alone grief. As a marketer, I’m used to mostly thinking of solutions; however, grief can’t be fixed. It's about healing and for each person that is a different journey. So, I wanted to find a way to talk about my experience of grief whilst working because so many of us go through it; sometimes in secret.
Hopefully, we can all learn to be more comfortable with the uncomfortable.
From this talk, I want you to walk away with;
- Understanding the relationship between grief and stress
- Constructive ways to cope with grief while working
- Importance of self-compassion through it all
Confronting myths, legends and untold stories in Black history. We’ll talk about unconscious biases and overt biases across media, and expose how branding, Hollywood, and propaganda own the popular black narrative.
Lift Every Voice & ACT! is a weekly chat series highlighting personal and provocative experiences.
In an effort to bridge our shared human experience, international artist & activist, Maryella Marie, will host an hour of storytelling and sustainable activism in order to:
- Reflect on the Black Experience with emotional intelligence
- Lift up Black voices to generate new experiences for a more tolerant future
- Reeducate and propose new solutions to systematic oppression
- End violent and bias acts against black people on a global level
- Share useful information that will lead to healing and justice
We’ll kick off the chat with a living case study and open a round-table discussion to share stories, reflect, cry, laugh, and heal together.
We’ll close with an invitation to act by signing petitions, donating to causes, and spreading awareness to fight against racial injustice.
A roundtable discussion demystifying the Black narrative.
- What does it take to be racially literate? We’ll deep dive into racial superficiality and how that creates resistance, give examples of systemic racism in education, and reveal how art can help reshape our shared experience.
Lift Every Voice & ACT! is a weekly chat series highlighting personal and provocative experiences and demystifying the Black narrative.
In an effort to bridge our shared human experience, international artist & activist, Maryella Marie, will host an hour of storytelling and sustainable activism in order to:
- Reflect on the Black Experience with emotional intelligence
- Lift up Black voices to generate new experiences for a more tolerant future
- Reeducate and propose new solutions to systematic oppression
- End violent and bias acts against black people on a global level
- Share useful information that will lead to healing and justice
- We will set the tone with an invitation to reflect on black poetry.
We’ll then kick off the chat with a living case study and open a round-table discussion to share stories, reflect, cry, laugh, and heal together.
We’ll close with an invitation to act by signing petitions, donating to causes, and spreading awareness to fight against racial injustice.
We’ll investigate questions such as:
- What is the Black Experience and why does it matter?
- Who creates the Black Experience and how is it shared?
- Who is affected by The Black Experience?
- How can we nurture, respect, and lift up the Black Experience?
Freedom Fighters - Systemic Oppression 101!
- Is freedom subjective or inclusive? Bring your stories to the table. Let’s review some basic, long-standing societal structures and happenings that influence “false freedom” and reinforce “freedom bubbles.”
Lift Every Voice & ACT! is a weekly chat series highlighting personal and provocative experiences.
In an effort to bridge our shared human experience, international artist & activist, Maryella Marie, will host an hour of storytelling and sustainable activism in order to:
- Reflect on the Black Experience with emotional intelligence
- Lift up Black voices to generate new experiences for a more tolerant future
- Reeducate and propose new solutions to systematic oppression
- End violent and bias acts against black people on a global level
- Share useful information that will lead to healing and justice
We’ll kick off the chat with a living case study and open a round-table discussion to share stories, reflect, cry, laugh, and heal together.
We’ll close with an invitation to act by signing petitions, donating to causes, and spreading awareness to fight against racial injustice.
Lift Every Voice & ACT! is a weekly chat series highlighting personal and provocative experiences.
In an effort to bridge our shared human experience, international artist & activist, Maryella Marie, will host an hour of storytelling and sustainable activism in order to:
- Reflect on the Black Experience with emotional intelligence
- Lift up Black voices to generate new experiences for a more tolerant future
- Reeducate and propose new solutions to systematic oppression
- End violent and bias acts against black people on a global level
- Share useful information that will lead to healing and justice
- We will set the tone with an invitation to reflect on black poetry
(For Juneteeth’s chat, we will open with The Black National Anthem)
We’ll then kick off the chat with a living case study and open a round-table discussion to share stories, reflect, cry, laugh, and heal together.
We’ll close with an invitation to act by signing petitions, donating to causes, and spreading awareness to fight against racial injustice.
We’ll investigate questions such as:
- What is the Black Experience and why does it matter?
- Who creates the Black Experience and how is it shared?
- Who is affected by The Black Experience?
- How can we nurture, respect, and lift up the Black Experience?
- Why is storytelling important when sharing the Black Experience?
I am a lifelong nerd. My interests have bounced from music to languages to coding to engineering. This has caused endless frustration and burnout as I’ve tried to mold these skills and passions into an ‘acceptable’ career. Rather than only seeing how these passions differ from one another, I am now able to see the sheer power that arises when they merge. There’s a sense of empowerment when one owns all parts of her journey and channels those insights to go farther, faster.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- The knowledge that you don’t have to go in a straight line to be as successful as your peers
- Actionable steps you can take to identify the main thread that connects your passions
- Hacks to develop habits to help you quickly vet if a passion has matured enough to become a career
Hablemos de las expectativas vs realidad de procedimientos de bioseguridad en aeropuertos, tendencias de distanciamiento en terminales aéreas y abordo. ¿Qué será distinto en mi experiencia de viaje?
Changing jobs can be scary because of a lot of unknowns. As a passionate product leader, I wanted to disrupt something, change the business, come up with new ideas and test and iterate fast, and make an impact on the business and I took a leap of faith 6.5 years ago and left my well defined corporate job for a start-up. Over the last 6.5 years, I built product teams, organizations, create product vision, and raised money. Join me to learn about my challenges, lessons learned, and if this is a journey for you.
This Q&A with 25+ year field expert offers participants the opportunity to think about what we are each already doing to support transgender people and what else we can be doing. At whatever level of power and whatever type of work you do, there is always a way to do more. This is the opportunity to come together to learn from one another and to walk away feeling empowered to do better and to do more for the trans* community.
Estás buscando trabajo y no sabes cómo prepararte para la entrevista? Nunca tuviste una entrevista virtual y no sabes qué esperar? Sumate a nuestro “Office Hours” donde Maru te puede ayudar a manejar esa ansiedad, contarte cómo estar lista y preparada para lograr tu mejor entrevista y responder a cualquier duda que tengas!
Black is #trending. Now what? Is this a temporary fad or a sustainable movement? The choice is ours.
How can we avoid racial inclusion becoming just another temporary trend? What needs to happen to create true sustainability? Bring your “Black Experience” stories, ideas, and curiosities to this roundtable discussion.
Lift Every Voice & ACT! is a weekly chat series highlighting personal and provocative experiences.
In an effort to bridge our shared human experience, international artist & activist, Maryella Marie, will host an hour of storytelling and sustainable activism in order to:
- Reflect on the Black Experience with emotional intelligence
- Lift up Black voices to generate new experiences for a more tolerant future
- Reeducate and propose new solutions to systematic oppression
- End violent and bias acts against black people on a global level
- Share useful information that will lead to healing and justice
We’ll kick off the chat with a living case study and open a round-table discussion to share stories, reflect, cry, laugh, and heal together.
We’ll close with an invitation to act by signing petitions, donating to causes, and spreading awareness to fight against racial injustice.
I love working with people. My passion is working with excellent software engineering teams building amazing products customers love. For more than ten years, I have been leading teams and organizations of different sizes while building a great culture, innovating, and shipping products.
How do you keep your team motivated, help your team members grow and build amazing products? I will answer any questions you have, especially while working remote.
We live in an unprecedented era where the leadership voids that exist are screaming out to be filled by everyday world changers. I’m excited to talk about the powerful habit of reinventing on purpose in order to impact farther, broader, and more deeply into our current spaces and beyond. I’ll cover the top three mindset shifts and modes of operation that will lodge us into unexpected rooms, give us unexpected impact, and help us win in races we didn’t originally expect to run.
If you're anything like me, discovering your career path was, or currently is, more like climbing up an unfamiliar ridge riddled with loose boulders, than a walk in the park. I changed my major several times, struggled through working in different fields, but I was determined not to settle.
Today, I run a personal-development company that aligns with my core desires, passions, and values. Join me in a discussion about what it takes to discover the work you were created to do and how to align it with marketplace opportunities.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Understanding of how to align your passions with marketplace opportunities
- Learn how to walk through those various ideas you have and process them into projects and goals
We welcome back PowerToFly mentor Marisa Sires to continue the conversation around navigating career transitions, now in a one-hour Chat & Learn format. Based on the resounding feedback from the group at Marisa's Office Hours on June 10, Navigating Career Transitions, we will continue our focus on (1) how to navigate switches between industries and (2) how to re-enter the workforce after a period away. Related to both of these, we will also talk about how to identify your personal strengths and incorporate them into a targeted resume and LinkedIn profile.
Some of the topics we will focus on are as follows:
- Shifting industries
- Career re-entry
- Starting a new role/setting yourself up for success
- When to make a move
- How to look for roles (where to search)
As I began my journey aspiring to be a great leader for my team, in a fast-paced, tech startup, I realized early into my leadership journey that people are used to thinking one can only be strong in either, this or that and not both. I call it “setting expectations in binaries”. How can the same person be —social AND task-oriented? Empathetic for her colleagues AND be radically candid? Intuitive about decisions AND be data-centric? Kick-ass and warm-and-fuzzy? If that sounds familiar, you also know questioning the status quo is easier said than done. I will share with you the frameworks that I use to bring my entire self to work so that I can play to my strengths despite social norms.
In this chat, I want you to walk away with:
- A framework to list your strengths and perform from a place of abundance to find success.
- How to take yourself from mediocrity to a stage where they cannot ignore you.
- How to get comfortable with your vulnerabilities to break the glass ceiling and achieve greatness.
Remote work is both a science and an art. As many global shifts shape how workers, work teams, and workplaces are re-imagined as successful, the skills needed in effective managers will also shift. This session offers 5 important tips for reflecting on your authentic leadership style and leveraging it for effective and happy remote work teams.
You will walk away from this chat with:
- Tips and strategies to effectively manage your remote teams
- Learn how to keep morale high while not being in the same physical space
- Understand how to maintain a working relationship with your team from afar
I felt like my career was never within my control. Underpaid. Overlooked. Drowning in debt. And deeply frustrated. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, a devastating accident left me physically, emotionally and financially devastated. But when you’ve hit rock bottom, you can only go up—and today I’m among the best-known thought leaders in my niche.
In this chat, I want to dive into:
- Recognizing and releasing the victim mentality
- How conventional wisdom and our relationship with money undermines our success
- Channeling our natural fears into productive action
Many engineers will come to a crossroad in their career between the 5 and 10 years of experience mark. They will inevitably be faced with a major decision that will impact the rest of their career. They must decide:
- Do I continue doing the same work, deliver the same content for the same compensation?
- Do I use my experience gained to train, mentor and coach others in their career by moving to management?
- Do I dive deeper and broader into technical areas to solve more complex and difficult technical issues that affect not only individual, group, or companies but impact the entire industry as a whole?
I chose option #3 and can share my insights on that journey. This PowerToFly Chat & Learn will be a good opportunity for others to chime in with their journeys in the hope to help those who are currently at the crossroad.
Program Management is a booming career option for many entry-level, mid-level and executive level professionals. Now more than ever Program Managers are in high demand across the tech industry. This session is intended for professionals wishing to move into Program Management.
Key Takeaways:
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Build an understanding of the "Program Management toolbox".
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Create an actionable plan to switch to Program Management.
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Successfully jump start your Program Management career