Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer

Ep #227: Building Your Leadership Legacy with Emily Chang

What mark do you want to leave on the corporate world? How can you create a legacy that not only speaks to who you are but also inspires others long after you've moved on? And how do you accomplish all of that while also crafting a career you love, landing the high-level leadership roles you deserve, and getting paid handsomely all along the way? If you want to create a lasting legacy while also building a career that fills you with joy, you’ll love this conversation with the one and only Emily Chang. Currently the CEO of VML West, Emily is a seasoned corporate leader with executive experience at McCann Worldgroup, Starbucks, IHG, Apple, and P&G. She is also a servant leader who has delivered four TEDx talks, authored the best-selling book “The Spare Room”, and is passionate about living with intention and leading with authenticity. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, Emily and I discuss how to navigate career transitions with courage, make strategic choices that align with your deeper leadership vision, and use your position to create meaningful change and build a lasting legacy.

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Ep #226: How to Stop Asking for More Work-Life Balance and Actually Make It Happen

You’ve been striving for that elusive work-life balance, but despite your best efforts, it still feels just out of reach, doesn’t it? Here’s the truth: You do not have to wait for your next promotion to find better work-life balance, and you don’t need to avoid promotions to protect your work-life balance, either. In fact, the way you're currently approaching work is exactly why your balance is off—and this will remain true whether you ascend to CEO or step back to middle management. The power to change your work-life balance starts with you. And it starts NOW. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m debunking the pervasive myths about work-life balance that make achieving it seem impossible. AND I’m also sharing practical, actionable changes you can implement today to create a better balance without needing to switch roles or land the 'perfect job'.

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Ep #225: Why the STAR Method Fails and My 3C's Approach to Interviewing Succeeds

As you edge closer to the executive suite, are your interview techniques keeping pace? Conventional interview approaches like the STAR method probably served you well as a subject matter expert. But this strategy quickly begins to fall short as you reach the director level and above. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m breaking down all the problems with the traditional STAR method and walking you through my unique, elevated approach to nailing executive-level interviews. I’ll introduce you to my 3C’s Method—Culture, Confidence, and Commitment—and give you real-life examples of how my clients are using this process to get out of the endless interview cycle and finally land the high-level leadership positions they deserve.

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Ep #224: How to Turn Your Big Impact into Executive-Level Influence

You’ve done things at your organization that no one else could do. Yet…That impact hasn’t translated into the recognition, title, or money you want, right? Here’s the problem: When it comes to earning your seat at the leadership table, influence matters more than impact. The power of influence is that it allows you to completely shift how the leadership team perceives you. It helps you transform the impact you are having into stories that not only highlight your accomplishments – but also demonstrates what a badass leader you already are. So how do you transform the impact you make into tangible influence that gets you what you want? And how do you do this while staying true to your authentic, powerful self? In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’ll guide you through my process for turning your impacts into influence using real-life examples from six of my clients.

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Ep #223: Speaking Your Brand with Carol Cox

In an inspiring episode of "Women Changing Leadership," host Stacy Mayer welcomes Carol Cox, a figure whose transition from academia to tech entrepreneurship and finally to the helm of Speaking Your Brand, illustrates the essence of dynamic leadership. Their conversation delves deep into the art of navigating career shifts with grace, the critical role of personal branding, and the power of thought leadership in today's corporate landscape. Carol's journey, marked by resilience against adversity and a keen intuition for pivotal decisions, offers invaluable lessons on overcoming challenges and embracing one's authentic voice. This episode is a treasure trove of wisdom for anyone eager to learn about transforming obstacles into opportunities and leading with conviction in the face of uncertainty.

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Ep #222: Unlock Your Executive Presence By Re-writing Your Leadership Story

I've discovered the secret to being seen as an executive leader doesn't lie in a sharp suit or a firm handshake—it's in the power of my storytelling and the energy I bring to every interaction. In this week’s episode, I delve into how storytelling is at the heart of executive presence. I share insights on how to project leadership qualities that go beyond the physical, how to harness the power of energetic storytelling to define your executive aura, how to communicate with confidence and vision (not just demonstrating expertise), and more. You don’t gain power and influence by asking for recognition; it happens through confidently claiming your space at the leadership table. By moving beyond trying to prove yourself and instead narrating your experience as resourced, composed, and ready for that next step. It’s time to redefine our leadership journeys and learn to turn our stories into our legacy. Let’s go.

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Ep #221: How to Use Leadership Storytelling to Be Seen as an Executive Leader

The fastest way to be recognized as an executive leader is to start communicating like one. That’s why executive communication isn’t just a leadership skill… It’s actually the entire foundation for every single other leadership skill you’ll need to master as you advance to the executive suite. And the easiest way to start showing off your executive communication skills TODAY is to start telling better stories. Better stories to your boss, to the executive team, and better stories to yourself. In this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m walking you through my unique leadership storytelling process so you can be recognized as the brilliant executive you are, land the roles you truly want, and be highly valued (and paid) for the impact you have at your organization.

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Ep #220: My New Definition of Selfishness and How to Use It to Get Promoted

The women inside my programs are incredibly empathetic, compassionate leaders who are lifting others up and making a huge impact at their organizations. But in order to do that, they first had to become incredibly selfish. And I’m not talking about the run-of-the-mill selfishness that leads to so many a-holes being in executive leadership. I’m talking about the kind of selfishness that will allow you to do things like: Leave work every day at 4pm to pick up your kids; go on a 5-week sabbatical and still get promoted when you return; and bring more empathy, diversity, inclusion and compassion to the leadership table and completely change how business is run in the process. This is my new definition of selfishness. And on this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to show you how you can use it to strive for greatness in your own way, on your own terms, and while carving your own path to the executive suite.

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Ep #219: The Problem with Corporate VIPs and How to Become an MVP Instead

Are you on the path to becoming an MVP or a VIP at your organization? The difference may seem small, but focusing on the wrong path can create huge problems in your career. VIPs are the high-level leaders you may be looking up to at your organization right now. They have power and influence and they’re often respected and even revered. But here’s the problem: As you advance to higher levels of leadership...you may come to realize that you don’t actually like them. And when this happens – when you realize many of the VIPs you admired are actually total a-holes who don’t stand for anything as a leader – this can be incredibly demotivating for you and your career. But in this episode of Women Changing Leadership with Stacy Mayer, I’m going to help you bypass this problem completely by showing you another path. I’ll show you how focusing on being an MVP – NOT a VIP – will help you achieve everything you admire about VIPs (the title, pay, recognition, and voice) while also stepping into your authentic power and having a major impact as a leader.

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Ep #218: How Working Less Will Help You Get Promoted More

You know that person at work who has a seat at the table, gets paid well, has lots and lots of influence, and continues to get promotion after promotion…but they also seem to put in less hours, deliver less projects, and maybe even care less about the organization than you do? You may be annoyed with this person, but I actually want you to follow their lead. At the executive level, you’re not getting paid by how many hours your butt is in your seat. You’re getting paid for your ideas, your visionary leadership, your ability to make hard decisions, your ability to problem solve at a higher level and more. And the best way to have the time and mental bandwidth to do all of the above and more is to start doing less at work. So in this episode of Women Changing Leadership, I’m going to walk you through the advanced executive skills I have been teaching my clients so they can work less while being rewarded more than ever before.

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