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Garrison Leykam
Java, Jobs, and YOU: Caffeinated Career Conversations is a podcast dedicated to YOU in your quest to find meaningful work and personal and professional fulfillment. We live in a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the career marketplace. Covid has dramatically altered the economic landscape and the ways we work and communicate. It’s driven home the recognized desire for quality of life and work. Education has migrated from hallowed ivy league hallways conferring traditional degrees to a world awakened to continuous learning and professional development. Micro-certifications now provide individuals from all socio-economic strata with affordable, professional programs to develop new skills that are in demand by employers. And it’s never been easier and more affordable to start-up an entrepreneurial venture that doesn’t require hefty brick and mortar and inventory investments. It’s our responsibility, yours, and mine, to navigate our careers, whether you’re transitioning to a new career, pursuing your 2nd act, dealing with ageism in the workplace, pivoting, trying to narrow your options to determine what you really want to do, finding a purpose, looking for alternatives to a role you’ve been assigned and aren’t passionate about, or just trying to stay current in your profession and industry. Java, Jobs, and YOU is a strong brewed podcast created and hosted by veteran radio, TV, and podcast expert and certified career and business coach Garrison Leykam. Garrison will bring you percolated interviews with career-related experts and inspiring individuals to inform and motivate you on how to fill your career potential to the brim.
Marc Emmer talks with Garrison about The Great Resignation on Java, Jobs, and YOU. Marc is an author, speaker, and consultant recognized as a thought leader throughout North America for his expertise in strategy and strategic planning. He has written two books, including Momentum, How Companies Decide What to Do Next. He has personally facilitated strategy sessions for more than 150 companies and delivered over 350 keynotes on strategy and value creation.
Kristi DePaul talks with Garrison about negotiating compensation on this episode of Java, Jobs, and You. Kristi is a recognized authority on career navigation and personal branding. Her work has appeared internationally and has been cited by prominent think tanks and universities. She is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and was recently named one of the world's top 50 Remote Innovators. Kristi is founder and principal at Nuanced, a thought leadership firm for executives, and serves as CEO of Founders, a fully remote content agency focused on the future of learning and the future of work. She earned her master’s degree from the H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Tracey Gendron serves as Chair for the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Gerontology and as Director for the Virginia Center on Aging. She has Master’s degree in Gerontology and Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology. Tracey is dedicated to raising awareness and ending ageism through education. Her book, Ageism Unmasked, peels back the layers to expose how cultural norms and unconscious prejudices have seeped into our lives, silently shaping our treatment of others based on their age and our own misconceptions about aging - and even about ourselves. Offering an all-inclusive approach, Tracey reveals the biases behind our false understanding of aging, sharing powerful opportunities for personal growth along with strategies to help create an anti-ageist society.
Julia Milner is a Professor in Leadership and the Academic Director of the Global MBA program at EDHEC Business School in France and Honorary Professorial Fellow with the Sydney Business School in Australia. She has recently been selected as one of the World’s Top 40 under 40 Business Professors by Poets & Quants. Julia's research focuses on leadership, high performance cultures, and technology usage. Julia Milner talks with Java, Jobs, and YOU host Garrison Leykam about successful employee coaching.
Phil Strazzulla is founder of SelectSoftware Reviews, a website dedicated to helping HR and Recruiting teams to find and buy the right software through in-depth, expert advice. He started his career working in venture capital before getting his MBA from Harvard Business School. Phil is an expert on Applicant Tracking Systems and recently published The Top 13 Best Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) – 2022.
Ingrid Carozzi is one of the premier floral artists in New York City. But, her very successful career path was anything but direct, having held jobs as a flight attendant, English teacher, croupier, waitress, and public relations associate. She tried five different college programs, none of which provided the academic spark to light an ideal career destination. But, a chance encounter would set her on a trajectory to career success and personal fulfillment.
Garrison's guest on this episode of Java, Jobs, and YOU is Kevyn Rustici, Area Vice President and Strategic Human Capital Consultant for Gallagher, a global insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting firm. Kevyn is a critical partner with business leaders and HR departments to understand how programs directly impact the bottom line so they can work together to unlock the full potential of their people, while designing great places to work so their team members deliver a greater return on their investment. He has successfully demonstrated that HR departments no longer must be cost centers to the business but can become profit centers yielding a greater return on their people investments.
After attending a Led Zeppelin concert at the LA Forum, 20-year old Susan Rogers vowed to return one day and mix sound for an amazing band. She kept her promise to herself and engineered Prince’s "Purple Rain" which notched the artist’s first album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 where it resided for 122 weeks and was certified Platinum with 25 million copies sold worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. It earned multiple Grammys and the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for the film "Purple Rain." At the top of her craft, Susan reinvented herself, earned her PhD, became a Professor at Berklee College of Music, and is author of the forthcoming book, This Is What It Sounds Like. Her career track is music to the ears of anyone looking to achieve a life of passion, purpose, and achievement in any field.
In 2005 Jennie McCormick helped co-discover an unknown planet in a solar system 15,000 light years away. She was the first woman amateur astronomer to discover a new planet since William Hershel in 1781. A few years later she discovered a new asteroid. Jennie's been a co-author of over 20 scientific papers, including the prestigious publication Science. She became an internationally respected astronomer by shattering the traditional walls of entry into the scientific community. All the way from the Farm Cove Observatory in Auckland, New Zealand Jennie shares her incredible career path on Java, Jobs, and YOU. Her story will resonate with anyone looking to achieve a life of passion, purpose, and achievement in any field.