Leadership Toolbox: Advance Your Impact Career

ABOUT THE EVENT

Advancing your career takes many forms. Whether you’re taking on more responsibility in your role, transitioning to senior or management position, or are hoping to land that big promotion or raise, you’ll need to hone your leadership skills to achieve your goals. In this interactive event, you’ll learn how to build trust, shift mindsets, and grow your influence to move towards a position of leadership.

The event will be led by Shannon Houde, a career and executive coach specializing in the impact sector. Shannon has more than two decades of mentoring, coaching, and training professionals, executives, and job seekers who are looking to make a difference. She recently published the book, Good Work: How to Build a Career that Makes a Difference in the World.

You’ll leave the event with tangible tools and tactics to help you build and evoke confidence and gravitas, influence relationships, and practice self-awareness and empathy so you can lead from any position.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
– Common myths about advancing your career that may be holding you back
– Advocating for yourself in the workplace (for salary/raise, promotions, recognition, more responsibilities/better projects, etc)
– Being considered a leader even if you do not have a title like “VP” or “CSO”
– A “growth mindset” and how it applies to moving up in your career
– Keys to confidence in shaping your career advancement

MEET YOUR SPEAKER
Shannon Houde is an ICF-PCC certified coach and talent strategist with over 20 years as a trusted advisor to senior change leaders and CSOs. Over 14 years ago she founded Walk of Life Coaching, the first international career development and talent advisory business focused on ESG, sustainability, international development, impact investing, diversity & inclusion, and corporate responsibility (CSR).

Shannon has mentored and trained 1000+ change leaders over 3000 hours to maximize their personal brands to advance their impact careers. She chose career coaching to combine her diverse experience as a hiring manager, a business coach and an ESG consultant for Adobe, Deloitte, BlackRock, and WWF, after having started her career 20 years ago in recruiting.

As a certified Goleman Emotional Intelligence meta coach, Shannon has been featured in Fast Company, The Guardian, Forbes, Huffington Post, Recruiter.com, Marie Claire, and Real Leaders and speaks regularly at international conferences including for Kering, GreenBiz, Hitachi, BSR and Net Impact.

She also recently published her first book with Kogan Page, “Good Work: How to Build a Career that Makes a Difference in the World”.

Shannon speaks rusty Italian, French and Spanish, having lived in Sicily, the French Alps and Patagonia Chile. She holds an MBA from Thunderbird Graduate School in International Management in Arizona and Geneva and a BA in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Originally from Washington DC, she now supports change leaders from both sides of the “pond” but lives between Cambridge, England and Biella, Italy.