Your Career, Your Rules: Navigating Professional Growth Like a Champion

Facilitated by Lauren Kennedy MSOL, Creating Strength Coaching & Leadership Development

Are you ready to take control of your career path and navigate professional growth on your own terms?  Get ready to challenge conventional wisdom and explore the common misconceptions surrounding career growth, including the myth of the linear path, the sole importance of education, and the often-overlooked value of experience over titles. 

Through thought provoking exercises and discussions, you'll get to reflect on your own personal career journey while identifying core beliefs about success.  You’ll learn practical strategies for: utilizing transformational leadership, how to advocate for yourself & leverage your network, crafting a coach’s mindset, and the importance of using feedback as fuel.

This session is designed to be highly interactive and relevant to your individual needs. Come prepared to share your experiences, ask questions, and leave inspired to take ownership of your professional development. Your career is yours to create – let's champion your journey together!

Session objectives:

• Identify your thought patterns & assumptions so you can uncover your deeply held beliefs about career development and examine how they might be sharing your decisions.
• Examine 3 action steps to navigating a successful career path that include transformational leadership, adopting a coaching mindset, and actively advocating for your professional growth.
• Gain practical strategies to help you walk away with action steps to navigate your unique career path, including effective networking techniques and strategies for continuous growth.  

Speaker/Facilitator: Lauren Kennedy, MSOL

Lauren Kennedy is a girl mom, entrepreneur, learning & leadership strategist executive coach, & animal rescuer. She believes everyone deserves a great leader, a company that values their voice, recognizes their work, and empowers them to reach all their goals, whether personal or professional. In her background as an entrepreneur and over 18 years’ experience in sales, training, coaching, & leadership development she has pushed her clients to achieve what they thought was impossible.  Lauren specializes in developing new and emerging leaders to become true multipliers within their organizations. Using a personal trainer approach to development, she creates customized experiences that build catalysts of transformation, re-engage cultures, and enhance organizational performance. She holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership, certificates from ATD in Leadership Development Programming & Coaching, is an Everything DiSC Authorized Partner as well as a Certified Executive Coach.