Alison Berman, Senior Manager of Research & Marketing Operations at Valo Ventures joins us today to share valuable insights on the importance of trusting your intuition and the challenges and empowering strategies involved in making major career changes. She also talks about how manifestation and the law of attraction can become powerful tools to help you reach your career goals in addition to seeking support from mentors and peers during the transition process and the significance of prioritizing values when building your inner circle.

Key takeaways:

• Using the power of manifestation and the law of attraction to reach career goals.
• Trust your intuition when making career changes.
• Incorporating practices like morning pages, nature, and women's circles into everyday life.
• Have an inner circle that reflects your values to aid career success.
• Reaching out to mentors and peers for encouragement and support during career changes.
• Considering core values and building meaningful relationships to find a mentor.

Chapters:

1. Navigating Career Transitions Through Intuition with Alison Barman (00:00 - 06:52)
2. Weeding Your Garden: Taking Graceful Steps to Transform Your Life (06:52 - 13:02)
3. Seeking Out Mentorship and Climate Tech Advice from Tiffany Wells (13:02 - 19:51)
4. Exploring Career Opportunities in the Climate-Tech Industry (19:52 - 26:43)
5. Sharing My Morning Rituals and Plans for the Future with Alison Adele (26:43 - 30:17)

About the Guest:

Fascinated by the intersection of regenerative systems, emerging technologies, and science fiction, at her core, Allison is an interdisciplinary thinker.

By day, she manages research, insights, and communications at Valo Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based VC firm that invests in solutions addressing climate change, circular economy, and empowered people. Previously, she worked at a climate technology accelerator founded by RMI, Third Derivative, and at emerging tech think tank, Singularity University.

Links:

Visit Valo Ventures: https://valoventures.org/

Visit The Change Agents: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.thechangeagents.co/⁠⁠

Connect with Alison: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisoneberman/

Connect with Tiffany: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyntagle/

Emily Anderson, CEO and Founder of Re/Frame Coaching, a company that aims to empower emerging leaders to identify and strengthen their aligned ambition and career, joins us to discuss empowerment, coaching, and the transformative power of taking risks and pushing past comfort zones. She also shares her insights on creating paths for advancement, prioritizing relationships and personal values, and emphasizes the significance of sobriety, meditation, and personal growth in leading fulfilling lives.

Key takeaways:

• Have courage and be willing to take risks for personal growth.
• Be aware and conscious to create good out of challenging experiences.
• Maintaining flexibility when making plans and decisions and supporting yourself and making decisions in accordance with personal values.
• Respecting individual journeys and seeking support if needed and setting yourself up for abundance and avoiding getting stuck in fear mentality.
• Focusing on relationships and understanding personal grief during transitions.
• Utilize mindful practices such as meditation to stay connected with yourself.

Chapters:

1. Navigating Change Through an Interesting Life Trajectory (00:00 - 05:34)
2. Betting on Yourself to Launch a Career (05:34 - 10:57)
3. Learning from Mistakes in My Career Transition (10:58 - 15:58)
4. Reinventing Life and Exploring the Caribbean Solo (15:59 - 21:12)
5. Navigating Pain and Change: How to Stay Abundance-Minded (21:12 - 27:26)
6. Rediscovering My Path to Living My Best Life (27:26 - 32:38)
7. Overcoming Soul-Sucking Corporate Environments and Embracing Abundance (32:38 - 37:38)

About the Guest:

Emily Anderson is the CEO and Founder of Re/Frame Coaching, a company that aims to empower emerging leaders to identify and strengthen their aligned ambition and career. After teaching middle school for seven years, Emily chose a new challenge and pivoted to a sales career in technology. Starting as a recruiter she quickly worked her way up into sales and then management. She leveraged her teaching background to create a training program for those wanting to uplevel and start their corporate careers. Her most current role was as an Enterprise Account Executive at a top software company managing Fortune 50 clients in the NYC area.

Emily’s holistic coaching style is active and collaborative. She utilizes targeted workshops, customized frameworks, and one on one sessions to help individuals tap into their power and navigate change. Emily is a certified teacher and facilitator through Stanford University’s Applied Compassion Training Program. She has her teaching degree through Indiana University with continuing education at Columbia University. She lives in NYC’s West Village.

Links:

Visit Re/Frame Coaching: https://www.reframecoaching.co/bio

Visit The Change Agents: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.thechangeagents.co/⁠⁠

Connect with Emily: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylynnanderson/⁠

Connect with Tiffany: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyntagle/

Judith Harrison, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at Weber Shandwick shares her fascinating experience of transitioning from a jazz and pop singer to a career in public relations, HR and Recruiting, and eventually Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Join us as we dive deeper into methods of promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace through educational programs and mentorship/sponsorship programs, and inclusive communications.

Key takeaways:

• How making a career transition requires understanding what is meaningful to oneself and the legacy one wants to leave.
• How organizations can unlock new opportunities by committing to a more diverse decision-making and open dialogue among diverse backgrounds.
• How mentorship and sponsorship programs are beneficial for both parties and help foster a diverse and inclusive workplace.
• Balancing time spent between the office and home is essential to maintain an inclusive and productive work environment.

Chapters:

1. Navigating Career Transformations (00:00 - 06:22)
2. The Long Journey to Professional Success (06:23 - 12:03)
3. Leveraging Relationships, Education, and Sponsorship Programs (12:04 - 18:25)
4. The Benefits of Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Inclusive Work Environments (18:25 - 24:58)
5. Navigating the Office: Double-Edged Sword of Remote Working (24:59 - 29:34)
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About the Guest: Judith Harrison leads global diversity, equity, and inclusion at Weber Shandwick. She drives programs designed to build a diverse workforce operating in a culture of inclusion and belonging to create impactful, innovative communications solutions for clients.

Judith’s background includes human resources experience and communications positions and programs at Burson-Marsteller, Ernst & Young, CBS, Media General, Random House, and the Italian Trade Commission.

Since joining Weber Shandwick in 2006, Judith has guided the firm to recognition as a champion of diversity and inclusion, with honors including an unparalleled four PRWeek/PR Council Diversity Distinction in PR Awards and numerous others.

Her open forums for employees in North America and beyond, Time to Connect, bring people together for transparent conversations about sensitive cultural issues, including racism, anti-Semitism and violence. Its value as a roadmap for the evolving nature of the employer/employee relationship was recognized by Harvard Business Review.

Judith is past president of the PRSA Foundation and two-term president of New York Women in Communications. She is the only individual to hold both positions simultaneously.

While leading the PRSA Foundation, Judith conceived and drove creation of Diverse Voices: Profiles in Leadership, a groundbreaking book of interviews with 40+ BIPOC and LGBTQ corporate, agency and academic PR leaders, designed to provide inspiration to aspiring professionals and guidance to employers on ways to better maintain inclusive environments in which people from all backgrounds can thrive.

Judith has been honored with the 2011 New York Women’s Agenda STAR Award, the 2019 ColorComm Circle Award, the 2019 PR Council/PRWeek Diversity Champion Award and the 2021 New York Women in Communications Matrix Award and was named as one of PRWeek’s Women of Distinction in 2022, as well as one of Savoy’s Top Influential Women in Corporate America in 2012, 2014 and 2019.

Links:

Visit Weber Shandwick: https://www.webershandwick.com/

Visit The Change Agents: ⁠⁠https://www.thechangeagents.co/⁠

Connect with Judith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judithharrison

Connect with Tiffany: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyntagle/