When you feel aimless or stagnant in your career, it’s often because you have no idea what you’re looking for. Without a clear idea of what you want to do, you focus on external measures of success, reactively wait for opportunities to come to you, and feel embarrassed that you can’t answer your manager’s question - “well, what do you want to do?”

How are you supposed to stop doing what you think is “right” in your career and start doing what’s right for you? If you’re not clear about what you want, there’s absolutely no way you can convey it to someone else.

In this talk, attendees experience practical frameworks and exercises to relieve the pressure they place on their career, assess and understand what works for them in their current role, identify actions to mold their current role into a better fit, and gain new mindsets for how to think about their long-term career.

By the end of the talk, attendees will know how to proactively cultivate opportunities that align with their needs and make decisions intentionally that are right for them.

Key takeaways:
- Relieve the pressure you place on your career
- Assess and understand what works for you in your current role
- Identify actions to mold your current role into a better fit
- Learn how to stop worrying about making the right decision and avoid getting distracted by shiny jobs that aren’t a good fit
- Gain new mindsets for how to think about your long-term career

Target Audience:
This talk has been delivered at many companies (Workday, Google, General Assembly, Bungalow, Brookfield Properties, GM, Plaid, First Round Capital, etc) and can be attended by anyone from new grads to senior leaders.

How much of your regretted attrition is due to employees feeling restless and thinking the grass is greener somewhere else? You don’t even get a chance to help them out as they’re embarrassed when asked “well, what do you want to do?” and they can’t answer. They’re gone before you have an opportunity to have a conversation or help find them a better fit.

Your employees are leaving because they have no idea what they want. The good news is that there are practical ways to help people find clarity, re-engage, and thrive in their job — and most don't cost you any money! Come learn this career coach’s secrets on how to keep your people feeling engaged and fulfilled in their careers.

In this talk, I equip leaders with tools to decrease anxiety and uncertainty by giving people a clear picture of what they’re looking for in their careers. Leaders will learn what truly makes a difference when people choose to re-engage with their existing roles so they can support their employees to find roles that fit.

Key Takeaways:
- Identify the top 3 things contributing to your employees’ stress at work.
- Discover the #1 reason why employees leave a role.
- Uncover the 7 inputs necessary for someone to re-engage with their role.
- Hear numerous stories of what re-engaging looks like in practice.

Target Audience: This talk is aimed at managers, senior leaders, and HR leaders that want to understand the mindset of their employees and do everything they can to keep employees engaged and thriving. The talk will share insights on what goes through someone’s head when they consider quitting and what factors make a difference in retaining them. Leaders will gain insight into how to recruit, retain, and invest in their talent.

In order to design a career that fits, you ultimately need a crystal clear answer to the question “What do I want?” Not only is this a difficult and daunting question to answer at the best of times but it’s hard to take time out of your regular day-to-day schedule to reflect. In this talik, we’ll focus on three practical frameworks that allow you to structure your thinking to make progress towards knowing what you want and what’s right for you in your career.

When you think about designing a career that fits, there’s also a bigger question at play that most people miss. Yes, it’s about your career, but it’s also about what you want in your life. In this talk, we’ll pause and reflect on both aspects.

What do you want in life?
And how does work fit into that?

This talk covers three frameworks:

- Finding a Calling: “Find your calling” can be one of the least helpful, most anxiety-inducing pieces of career advice we hear. We all want to make a unique contribution that feels meaningful to us, but how do we do that? Using a framework from Tara Mohr’s book, Playing Big, attendees will gain a much more accessible understanding of what a calling is and how to cultivate it. They’ll also have a chance to identify work that has felt in line with their callings and assess how well their current work is aligned.

- Defining Impact: It can be incredibly difficult to quantify or articulate the impact that is meaningful to an individual. We’ll uncover the hidden pressure of feeling like you need to save the world and explore impact on 2 axes using a framework from Designing Your Work Life. Participants will learn from plotting the roles they’ve had so far and looking at the themes. I’ll share many ways that my clients have learned to describe the impact that is important to them using this framework.

- Aligning Your Values: Values act as an incredibly clarifying north star when designing a career that fits. Participants will be taken through an exercise to discover their values using a data-driven approach and assess how well they are being honored and prioritized currently, across work and life.

Target Audience: This can be attended by anyone from new grads to senior leaders