The Company Road Podcast E48 Kevin Finn - Career Crossroads and Signposts: There’s no time to F@#% about!
“Seniority doesn't win, experience does” - Kevin Finn
This month’s theme
This month we discuss the significance of identifying crossroads within our careers or organisations. In each episode, we explore the pivotal moments where decisions shape our professional trajectories, and strategies for navigating challenges and change as an employee or a leader.
From career transitions and industry shifts to leadership changes and organisational restructuring, we unpack practical strategies, share success stories, and empower listeners to embrace challenges and change as a catalyst for growth and innovation.
In this episode you’ll hear about
- Ways to identify a crossroads in your career
- Reflecting on whether a company’s culture aligns with your values
- How business leaders can create the conditions for successful transformation and change within their organisation
- How to foster buy-in and collaboration from the wider team to drive organisational change forward
- Ways for employees to have constructive conversations with their leadership team during periods of change
Key links
Kevin’s latest venture: Crossroads
About our guest
Kevin Finn is a brand expert, author, internationally recognised branding designer and TEDx speaker. His personal belief is: There is wisdom in learning.
With 30 years experience, Kevin began his career in Dublin at the design studio that has created all of U2’s album covers. Following this, for seven years he was Joint-Creative Director of Saatchi Design, Sydney, part of the Saatchi & Saatchi global network. Between 2003 and 2018 he explored the intersection of design with social, cultural, political and economic issues through his independent self published design journal, Open Manifesto. His book ‘Brand Principles: How to be a 21st Century Brand’ was published in 2022. In 2007, he founded his independent design practice TheSumOf.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-finn-3aa8a33/
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of Company Road, helping businesses and leaders find meaning, impact and positivity.
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with University of Melbourne in Innovation, and Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/
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