Finding your Niche to Unleash your Greatest Career and Fulfill your Purpose with Sarah Cannistra

In today's episode, Massimo is joined by Sarah Cannistra, an L&D Career and Executive Coach, and founder of The Overnight Trainer, specializing in helping aspiring and existing L&D professionals create and built the L&D career of their dreams. Since beginning her career in L&D over a decade ago, Sarah has created hundreds of learning and development programs for over 5,000 learners, led the learning function for 4 different organizations, and hired and trained dozens of L&D professionals. She now uses what she has learned in her career to develop the L&D careers of others.

Highlights from today's podcast include:

• How a bounced rent check led to a dream career.
• The challenges with equitability and access to higher education and how work experience surpasses the value of formal education.
• The importance of knowing your "why" and applying it to work of service.
• The gift in saying no to things that don't energize you, even if you are good at them.
• How understanding your strengths can guide your work and inform career decisions.

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