#358 Career Change, the Great Resignation, and Taking Your Next Leap with CEO and Fortune 500 Advisor Christine Spadafor

#358 Career Change, the Great Resignation, and Taking Your Next Leap with CEO and Fortune 500 Advisor Christine Spadafor

Author: Jim Harshaw, Jr. June 27, 2022 Duration: 34:32

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It’s not unusual for Christine Spadafor to be the only woman in the room, but it didn’t stop her to become one of the best business leaders in the country.

Christine Spadafor is a lecturer on Strategic Leadership at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. 

She is an experienced public and private company board director with deep expertise in risk management, regulatory compliance, ESG, and DEI.

This Mercyhurst University Board of Trustees member has a demonstrated track record leading successful large-scale transformational initiatives at the intersection of strategy, operations, finance, and change management in domestic and global markets. 

She also has worked extensively as a Board of Directors advisor to Fortune 500 C-suite executives.

In this episode, we get into Christine’s experience with success and failure as a CEO and as a woman in the male-dominated corporate world. We’ll also delve into The Great Resignation— what is it and what are the specific, practical, and actionable tactics you can use to manage your career in this phenomenon? Tune in now!

If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.  


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