Executive Springboard: the career redesign workshop

10/26/2016

Your job experiences fill your career like food fills your belly. It matters how hungry you are.

10/15/2016

Our nature is to be resilient.

10/14/2016

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
― Bruce Lee

09/23/2016

Executive Springboard wants work to feel like this.

09/03/2016

Over the course of thirty-five years, thousands of executives have called me for help on their careers. A great many called to say their job wasn’t fulfilling or satisfying and they wanted to make a career change. As it turned out, most ended up getting another job that looked almost exactly like the job they left.

Most of the time, even when executives want to make a career change, they don’t. I realized that there was nowhere for executives to turn for thoughtful and practical career advice.

I sought out Kathy Uroda to co-create the program with me. I first met Kathy in India while both of us worked with Korn Ferry. Not only is she an outstanding executive coach, but she has deep experience in program and curriculum design. She was the perfect person to help create Executive Springboard.

We knew what we wanted: The workshop needed to be experiential -- no PowerPoint decks, no lecturing. And we wanted the participants, all senior executives, to receive practical feedback and ideas from each other.

To make bold changes you need to be ready to engage with matters of the soul, of your Self. Most people don’t take the opportunity to step back and assess their lives, take stock of the past and present, and consider fresh possibilities based on the person they are today.

This is why we created Executive Springboard. Extraordinary Careers Don’t Happen by Accident.

08/05/2016

Wonder what it's like to be a part of Executive Springboard? Here are comments from our recent participants:

"The workshop produced a context for career adjustment and a concrete plan.”

“The workshop allowed for a systematic inventory of my skills, passions and value to triangulate on what I should be doing next”

"This next step is different and very important to me spiritually and psychologically because of my age and the phase of my career. This [workshop] took away some fear and gave me inspiration and hope."

"It enabled me to really understand my purpose and left me with an action plan to ensure I understood the next steps and had a clear vision of where I wanted to go and what I wanted to achieve.”

"The process of reflecting on one's life and professional career and the interactive exercises with other participants were particularly useful."

“By thoughtfully focusing on my personal talents, values and purpose, the Executive Springboard workshop created a roadmap to my next career step."

06/12/2016

Building careers with purpose! Executive Springboard's Kathy Uroda and Michael Bekins team to lead a cohort of executives, June 9-11, in Los Angeles. Thanks, Kathy!

04/12/2016

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Guided by internationally recognized coaches, participants link their strengths, values, and passions to a career, and craft a plan for the future. We help executives build purpose-driven careers.

04/07/2016

Character takes time.

04/07/2016

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03/30/2016

Insiders have the fast-track for top jobs today. But the article highlights two more critical points. First, top executives need international experience (we call this Global Mindset); and second, they need the support of people under them. Ambition can carry leaders so far. For the last mile, leaders need to bring a sense of purpose to the job. http://www.wsj.com/articles/more-ceo-jobs-are-going-to-inside-candidates-1457433004

About four of five companies in the S&P 500 that chose a new CEO last year promoted an insider, according to a report that provides a snapshot of what it takes to become a corporate leader nowadays.