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This episode, which is a replay from the March 2024 National Conference for Women, features Career Expert and Author Kimberly Brown. She will walk us through her structured framework to help you develop a clear and effective career strategy, tailored to your short-term and long-term goals. This episode is crucial for anyone looking to regain control over their career path and make strategic, informed decisions about their professional future.
(This episode is a replay from the March 2024 National Conference for Women)
Kimberly Brown
KIMBERLY BROWN (she/her/hers) is a career + leadership expert whose mission is to help women and people of color navigate the workplace, make more money, and become industry leaders. Her leadership development company, Manifest Yourself, LLC, provides organizations with tailor-made solutions to engage, develop, and advance women and people of color. Through her experience as a career development adviser in some of the nation’s top universities and diversity + inclusion professional in a Fortune 100 company, she has learned that there is so much more to career + leadership development besides having a high paying job; it’s about creating actionable strategies that enable professionals to do more, be more, and achieve more. Her bestselling book, Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning Into a Career You’ll Love, was released in June 2021. Her work has been featured on The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Forbes, Blavity, MONEY Magazine, Essence Magazine, Business Insider, CNBC, Fox 5, and more. She is also on the board of directors for The Power of You Teens organization. Brown is a graduate of Long Island University and received a bachelor of science in business administration and master of science in counseling.
Celeste Headlee
Celeste Headlee is a communication and human nature expert, and an award-winning journalist. She is a professional speaker, and also the author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism—and How to Do It, Do Nothing, Heard Mentality, and We Need to Talk. In her twenty-year career in public radio, she has been the executive producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio, and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She also served as cohost of the national morning news show The Takeaway from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. Headlee’s TEDx talk sharing ten ways to have a better conversation has over twenty million total views to date. @CelesteHeadlee
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