Wish I Knew . . .

Career Background:

• Author of the book "The Career Toolkit"
• MIT Graduate and an engineer by background
• Chief Technology Officer at several companies
• Faculty at MIT
• Creator of the "brain Dump" App

https://brainbumpapp.com/

Highlights

• Mom "Why don't you teach the chess class"
• Book "The Career Toolkit" 
  • 10 Topics / 10 chapters
• Learning the intangible skills to go along with the technical skills
• Giving content to MIT
• Helping people reach their potential
• Graduate degree in Cryptography
• Political volunteer for Clinton
• Never ever have software based voting
• Not knowing what to do, he "Hid" out at MIT as research staff
• How to think about looking for a job
• Look at the job not the title, dig deeper
• Looking at your career like a chess match
• Running towards is better than running away
• Look for material changes at your company
• Building your career plan
• Don't "Drift" with your career
• Field testing his book
• Be open to randomness and opportunities
• Focusing on the outcome
• Hates consulting
• Competitive dance career
• Discount all advice you are given
• Sabbatical 5 months prior to 30 years old

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!

Career Background:

• Author of the book "The Career Toolkit"
• MIT Graduate and an engineer by background
• Chief Technology Officer at several companies
• Faculty at MIT
• Creator of the "brain Dump" App

https://brainbumpapp.com/

Highlights

• Mom "Why don't you teach the chess class"
• Book "The Career Toolkit" 
  • 10 Topics / 10 chapters
• Learning the intangible skills to go along with the technical skills
• Giving content to MIT
• Helping people reach their potential
• Graduate degree in Cryptography
• Political volunteer for Clinton
• Never ever have software based voting
• Not knowing what to do, he "Hid" out at MIT as research staff
• How to think about looking for a job
• Look at the job not the title, dig deeper
• Looking at your career like a chess match
• Running towards is better than running away
• Look for material changes at your company
• Building your career plan
• Don't "Drift" with your career
• Field testing his book
• Be open to randomness and opportunities
• Focusing on the outcome
• Hates consulting
• Competitive dance career
• Discount all advice you are given
• Sabbatical 5 months prior to 30 years old

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!

Career Background:

• Employee engagement and Career transition coach
• Independent consultant
• Certified movement therapy practitioner
• Founder and president of Lean in Regional Leader
• Social Entrepreneur
• Customer expert strategist

Highlights:

• Day 1 working with the CIO
• High touch
• Engineer to certified movement therapy practitioner
• Living the scripted life initially
• Going through career and ticking boxes
• Being a woman in the technology industry
• Significant career pivot
• The art of communication
• Being a somatic leadership coach
• The 5 levels of well being
• Quick somatic experiment
• 9 month program for a brand new program
• Getting coaching support to move forward
• Living by design not by default
• Being in hustle mode
• Most proud of experimenting
• Bus conductor / teacher / news caster

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!

Career Background:

• Employee engagement and Career transition coach
• Independent consultant
• Certified movement therapy practitioner
• Founder and president of Lean in Regional Leader
• Social Entrepreneur
• Customer expert strategist

Highlights:

• Day 1 working with the CIO
• High touch
• Engineer to certified movement therapy practitioner
• Living the scripted life initially
• Going through career and ticking boxes
• Being a woman in the technology industry
• Significant career pivot
• The art of communication
• Being a somatic leadership coach
• The 5 levels of well being
• Quick somatic experiment
• 9 month program for a brand new program
• Getting coaching support to move forward
• Living by design not by default
• Being in hustle mode
• Most proud of experimenting
• Bus conductor / teacher / news caster

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!

 Today I was lucky enough to catch up with my good friend and all around good guy John Masley.

Career Background:

• KPMG Executive for over 18 years
• Also worked for great companies like:
  • SourceNet Solutions
  • National Tech Team
  • PMH Caramanning
  • Universal Computer systems

Highlights

• Mowing lawns and working at a golf course
• Key takeaways = Relationships
• Being from the Midwest
• Community empowered to handle issues (the old social media)
• Picking a university that fit his style
• 1991 and heading into banking or so he thought
• Mentoring 
  • Two way street 
  • It's EVERYTHING  to his success
• Using humor in his business practice and the possible trade off
• Being the "Experiment" to his consulting gig
• Having a Service Provider Role
• Customer first mentality, compassionate, empathetic
• Best Advice = Be Present, don't be distracted
• Tips for being present
• Logging 2 million miles on the road and now loving WFH
• Empowering others now and building your legacy
• Being very philanthropic and making an impact
• Rick Bertheaud Tribute 
• Leverage your relationships and ask for an introduction

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!

 Today I was lucky enough to catch up with my good friend and all around good guy John Masley.

Career Background:

• KPMG Executive for over 18 years
• Also worked for great companies like:
  • SourceNet Solutions
  • National Tech Team
  • PMH Caramanning
  • Universal Computer systems

Highlights

• Mowing lawns and working at a golf course
• Key takeaways = Relationships
• Being from the Midwest
• Community empowered to handle issues (the old social media)
• Picking a university that fit his style
• 1991 and heading into banking or so he thought
• Mentoring 
  • Two way street 
  • It's EVERYTHING  to his success
• Using humor in his business practice and the possible trade off
• Being the "Experiment" to his consulting gig
• Having a Service Provider Role
• Customer first mentality, compassionate, empathetic
• Best Advice = Be Present, don't be distracted
• Tips for being present
• Logging 2 million miles on the road and now loving WFH
• Empowering others now and building your legacy
• Being very philanthropic and making an impact
• Rick Bertheaud Tribute 
• Leverage your relationships and ask for an introduction

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!

Highlights

• Another babysitting job / Extremely responsible as a young person / Yo Adrienne is a real thing / Her life is a foreshadow / The big tall bar = Corporate Trainer / College Professor / Thinking IO Psychology was the path / Graduating at the dot com bust and trying to find work / First job being the most boring thing ever / NOT listening to her C-Level dad / Taking an MBA at an awesome small private School University of St. Thomas / Tap on the should at Target for a corporate training role / Great job that provided autonomy, creativity and follow her natural strengths / Having autonomy, mastery and purpose / Mom the armchair psychologist and giving personality tests to future boyfriends / Managing her drive and intensity with Mom's help / Taking  a career changing job without the prerequisite experience needed / Being caught in a blocking role / Starting Amazon with confidence / Taking and turning down Dad advice / 3 massive inflection points in her wonderful career / Getting a Jaguar commitment that didn't come through

Career Background:

• Currently an Executive Coach / Senior Facilitator / Owner nearly 5 years now
• Executive Coach at Reverb for over 4.5 years
• Senior Facilitator @ SOAR
• Amazon for 3.5 years 
• 11 years at Target

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!

Highlights

• Another babysitting job / Extremely responsible as a young person / Yo Adrienne is a real thing / Her life is a foreshadow / The big tall bar = Corporate Trainer / College Professor / Thinking IO Psychology was the path / Graduating at the dot com bust and trying to find work / First job being the most boring thing ever / NOT listening to her C-Level dad / Taking an MBA at an awesome small private School University of St. Thomas / Tap on the should at Target for a corporate training role / Great job that provided autonomy, creativity and follow her natural strengths / Having autonomy, mastery and purpose / Mom the armchair psychologist and giving personality tests to future boyfriends / Managing her drive and intensity with Mom's help / Taking  a career changing job without the prerequisite experience needed / Being caught in a blocking role / Starting Amazon with confidence / Taking and turning down Dad advice / 3 massive inflection points in her wonderful career / Getting a Jaguar commitment that didn't come through

Career Background:

• Currently an Executive Coach / Senior Facilitator / Owner nearly 5 years now
• Executive Coach at Reverb for over 4.5 years
• Senior Facilitator @ SOAR
• Amazon for 3.5 years 
• 11 years at Target

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!

Today my guest Damian Carnell is a guy who figured it out early in his career about what he wanted to do and the impact he wanted to make. 

Career Background:

• Executive Compensation Focus
• Founder of CORPGRO 
• Worked for great companies like 
  • Towers Watson for over 22 years 
  • Aon Hewitt 
  • EY Senior

Highlights

• First job in pub and getting along with your co-workers is important
• Being sponsored after high school by an Engineering company
• Get the right work life balance early on
• Getting Big 4 experience
• Ending up in Hong Kong and "being" the Insolvency department
• Rose Chan - Kung fu master
• Comparing working in the UK to HK
• Get a Magna Carta lesson HERE
• Hitting the high powered 80's and changing career focus
• Boutique consulting firm owned by a large law firm (Clifford chance Law Firm)
• Getting deep into employee ownership and compensation models
• Joining Willis Towers Watson and the world of executive compensation
• Getting the question "How does it feel having spent the best part of your professional career doing something that doesn't work?"
• Key to being a great consultant
• Not knowing the answer to a question
• Getting put on the spot during a compensation discussion
• A multi millionaire still living with his mother
• Integrity discussion

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!

Today my guest Damian Carnell is a guy who figured it out early in his career about what he wanted to do and the impact he wanted to make. 

Career Background:

• Executive Compensation Focus
• Founder of CORPGRO 
• Worked for great companies like 
  • Towers Watson for over 22 years 
  • Aon Hewitt 
  • EY Senior

Highlights

• First job in pub and getting along with your co-workers is important
• Being sponsored after high school by an Engineering company
• Get the right work life balance early on
• Getting Big 4 experience
• Ending up in Hong Kong and "being" the Insolvency department
• Rose Chan - Kung fu master
• Comparing working in the UK to HK
• Get a Magna Carta lesson HERE
• Hitting the high powered 80's and changing career focus
• Boutique consulting firm owned by a large law firm (Clifford chance Law Firm)
• Getting deep into employee ownership and compensation models
• Joining Willis Towers Watson and the world of executive compensation
• Getting the question "How does it feel having spent the best part of your professional career doing something that doesn't work?"
• Key to being a great consultant
• Not knowing the answer to a question
• Getting put on the spot during a compensation discussion
• A multi millionaire still living with his mother
• Integrity discussion

Want to be a guest? Email me at [email protected]!