What is the role of your career story as you look to change careers, get promoted, or gain funding for a project or venture? Esther Choy, President and Chief Story Facilitator at Leadership Story Lab, would tell you your story should do the heavy lifting. With the proper story, you can gain credibility, open doors, and increase support for your goals and dreams. Yet, many people miss the mark – but don’t have to. In this CareerCast, Esther shares her strong and powerful perspective, wisdom, and practical and actionable ways to help you create influential career stories that can positively accelerate your growth, success, and happiness.

What are the benefits of working on a hybrid team? Some people believe they could do the work from home and save money on parking, gas, and more. Yet Cali Williams Yost, Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy, believes you can create a real and committed community with vision, focus, and an open mind. As author of Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day, and the critically-acclaimed, Work+Life: Finding the Fit That’s Right for You, Cali helps organizations around the world create high performance teams with flexibility, empathy, and appreciation. In this CareerCast, Cali shares her insights, extensive experience, and wisdom to help you build hybrid teams (or really any type of team) where people want to work and stay.

In today’s world, can trust really be created, extended, and received? Stephen M. R. Covey, Global Practice Leader, Global Speed of Trust Practice, former President and CEO of Covey Leadership Center, and bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust—The One Thing That Changes Everything would say, “Absolutely YES”. While it’s not easy, it is essential for greater effectiveness, competitive advantage, and profitability. In this CareerCast, Stephen shares how individuals in organizations – from entrepreneurial to global entities – create trust one-on-one, within teams, and more broadly. 

Leadership can be challenging in the best of times, so what about in an age of uncertainty? Jean-Philippe Courtois, Executive Vice President and President, National Transformation Partnerships at Microsoft, believes that this is the moment to lead with hope, empathy, and a positive perspective, vision, and action. In this CareerCast, Jean-Philippe shares his insights, strategies, and empowering spirit from nearly four decades as a leader at Microsoft with a grounding in positive psychology, neuroscience and mindfulness.

Change comes in many forms and today it is happening at lightning speed. While change is inevitable, fighting against it or making it your ally is the difference between defeat and victory. Just ask Roger Crawford, who Sports Illustrated named as "One of the most accomplished physically challenged athletes in the world." For him, change is has been a catalyst for many major accomplishment in his career and life. In this CareerCast, Roger shares his wisdom and practical strategies for making change your ally and using it for greater success, happiness, and self-empowerment.

Career challenges can come from many places – some expected and others surprising. Sergeant Major Matthew R. Drayton is no exception. He faced more than a few obstacles during his 20+ years in the US Army (16 of those years working with elite Special Operations forces) and in his business experience in government and commercial commerce. His two books, Leading While Black and Succeeding While Black – chronicle both the adversity and ways to positively transform it. In this CareerCast, Matthew brings his insights from experiences with challenge and victory to help you build personal strength and power for greater ability, contribution, and meaningful success.

Loneliness is an epidemic across the globe for individuals of different backgrounds, ages, and professions. So what is the answer? For Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen, advisors, corporate consultants, and authors of Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In, the answer is creating genuine belonging. In this CareerCast, Ryan and Steven, share their insights, extensive experience, and wisdom to help you move from loneliness to belonging for greater success and happiness – for yourself, your team, and your company.

How do you advance your career in a world filled with noise, banality, and people hoping to fit in? Roy Sharples, CEO of Unknown Origins, former Managing Director, Global Industry Product Marketing, at Microsoft, and author of CREATIVITY WITHOUT FRONTIERS: How To Make The Invisible Visible By Lighting The Way Into The Future, would tell you to act boldly, bravely, and creatively. In this CareerCast, Roy shares how to provoke actions that can advance your career with less fear, more fun, and where you will stand out based on what is important to you in your career and life.

Adaptability and agility are considered two of the top skills identified by LinkedIn in 2021 to help organizations grow, stay current, and compete in a business environment of insistent change. According to Marti Konstant, workplace futurist, former technology executive (who has worked in Silicon Valley), and best-selling author of Activate Your Agile Career, "Agile isn’t just for tech anymore – it’s transforming how organizations hire, develop and manage their people.” It’s also how you can, and probably should, be managing your career. In this CareerCast, Marti shares how to apply an agile mindset to the modern workplace to help you advance in your organization beyond your current role, use transferrable skills for a pivot, and rethink your career options for the future of work.

Do you sometimes feel that your colleagues don’t understand who you are and what are you saying? According to Devora Zack, global keynote speaker, leadership consultant, and author of several books, including, The Cactus and Snowflake at Work, we often work with individuals of different temperaments who can seem as different as the logical cactus and sensitive snowflake. The good news is that can be great for the strength of the team and the company – if you take time to understand how “the other half lives” and works. In this CareerCast, Devora shares her research, insights, and humor-infused wisdom to help you collaborate more effectively with cacti and snowflakes.