CareerCast by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chicago Booth believes in life-long career development to help you maintain your professional edge. Through CareerCast, an online, audio recording series, we give alumni and students the chance to hear experts discuss topics such as crafting your story, making an industry or function change, managing employees, taking the entrepreneurial plunge and more. Because these talks are available online, you can access them anytime, anywhere and as often as you want.
You will have the opportunity to submit questions to the speaker in advance of the broadcast. Then check in the third Friday of each month to listen to the interview. For 24 hours after the broadcast, you can submit follow-up questions.
We’ve created a CareerCast webpage for each broadcast where you can get more information about that month’s topic. The page will feature useful links to tools, books, articles and first-hand stories.
You will have the opportunity to submit questions to the speaker in advance of the broadcast. Then check in the third Friday of each month to listen to the interview. For 24 hours after the broadcast, you can submit follow-up questions.
We’ve created a CareerCast webpage for each broadcast where you can get more information about that month’s topic. The page will feature useful links to tools, books, articles and first-hand stories.
Episodes
Mentioned books
May 20, 2021 • 32min
Transforming Self-Sabotage
Do you put things off that you know you should get done? As a coach, therapist and author of The Self-Sabotage Behavior Workbook, Dr. Candice Seti would tell you that you are not alone. The vast majority of working professionals procrastinate nearly every day. The cost is significant and yet, you can move past it. In this CareerCast, Candice shares her research-based knowledge, strategies, and insights on transforming self-sabotage and be more effective, credible, and successful.
Apr 15, 2021 • 24min
Building Transformative Relationships
Powerful relationships are the currency of your career and life. Yet where do you start? Shawn Nason, founder & CEO of MOFI, the Nason Group ecosystem, author of Kiss Your Dragons: Radical Relationships, Bold Heartsets, & Changing the World, and host of The Combustion Chronicles podcast, believes you need to look at the relationships that might even scare you and go for them anyway. In the process, you will transform yourself, your career, and your organization. In this CareerCast, Shawn shares his approach to creating greater success, happiness, and positive impact when you prepare for the challenge.
Mar 19, 2021 • 30min
Predicting the Turn
Are you ready for the next disruption? According to Dave Knox, brand marketer, venture investor, startup advisor, and author of Predicting the Turn, even if you are an innovative, creative, disruptive organization today, you could be left in the dust tomorrow. In this CareerCast, David discusses the changing relationship between startups and Fortune 500 companies and how to foresee the future as it applies to the longevity of your industry, company, and career.
Feb 18, 2021 • 25min
Realizing Undiscovered Opportunity
Depending who you talk to, the world is either filled with loss or overflowing with opportunity. Clearly, there aren’t two world. So what is the difference? Nir Bashan, founder and CEO of The Creator Mindset, award winner, Emmy nominee, and author of The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability, would tell you that it’s focus and perspective. In this CareerCast, Nir shares the practical, creative approach he uses with clients from AT&T and Microsoft to NFL Network and JetBlue on how to find undiscovered opportunity and be first.
Jan 14, 2021 • 29min
Are You Solving the Right Problem
There are so many problems these days that emerge on a near daily basis. Yet it is impossible to solve them all. So how do you decide which are the right problems to solve at any moment in time? Kristen Cox, former Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget (GOMB) for the State of Utah, university instructor and fellow at David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and co-author of Stop Decorating the Fish and The World of Decorating the Fish, has strong opinions on this. She would say that most people throw “more” on the problem – from more strategy and data to more money and technology – and this doesn’t work. In this CareerCast, Kristen shares her insights, perspective, and actions based on her vast and deep experience on how to identify the right problems to solve and how to do it.
Dec 16, 2020 • 24min
Career Fear and How to Beat It
Jobs have changed so much in the last decade and transforming at an exponential rate right now. In this age of uncertainty, staying in control of your professional life can feel overwhelmingly challenging. So what does it take to have, and be in control of, a successful and fulfilling career? In this CareerCast, Somi Arian, multi-award-Winning Filmmaker, Tech Philosopher, Entrepreneur, and author of Career Fear and How to Beat It explores the perspective, mindset and uniquely human skills you need for a resilient and thriving career - without the fear.
Nov 19, 2020 • 35min
Turning Adversity to Your Advantage
Adversity seems to be everywhere – from home to work to society. According to strategist, coach and author of the bestselling book, The Empowerment Paradox, Ben Woodward, believe that now is the perfect time to accelerate your growth, advancement, and confidence by turning the challenges in front of you to your advantage. In this CareerCast, Ben brings his insights from repeated experiences with family trauma, chronic illness, and corporate crisis to help you build personal strength and power for greater capacity, meaning and authentic success.
Oct 16, 2020 • 26min
Reset Your Work Life
Is it possible to choose the things to in your life and where you focus your energy with so many overlapping and conflicting demands? Gail Golden, Ph.D., licensed psychologist, MBA-holding entrepreneur, and author of Curating Your Life, would say, “Absolutely yes.” In this CareerCast, Gail shares how successful C-suite executives master both emotions and the economics, leveraging her approach that combines sports-influenced tactics of performance coaching with psychology-trained skills of empathy.
Sep 17, 2020 • 27min
Communicate with Confidence
In this podcast, Caroline Goyder shares insights on how to communicate with confidence. Topics discussed include the relationship between confidence and communication, managing virtual communication challenges, the importance of breaks in video conference calls, strategies for dealing with nervousness in job interviews, adjusting communication style based on the audience, and building confidence in communication for career success.
Aug 20, 2020 • 26min
The Initiative Edge
Do your options seem to be shrinking? The question is: Do they need to be – even in challenging times? Joshua Spodek PhD MBA, three-time TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, successful entrepreneur, and professor and coach of entrepreneurship and leadership at NYU and Columbia Business School, would say an emphatic NO!. Instead, he would tell you that now it the time to expand your thinking, actions, and opportunities. In this CareerCast, Josh shares a practice-based method to help you discover and develop passions and take initiative—even if you don’t yet know where you want to focus your energies.
