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Savvy Professional Career Wisdom by Caroline Dowd-Higgins
This is Not the Career I Ordered is read by thousands of careerists around the globe. With savvy tools, inspiration, and resources, this timeless book empowers you to enjoy your career, and love your life!
Achievement Intelligence is the Essential Guard Rail to Humanize AI
The benefit of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking shape with the aim of improving the lives of every person on the planet. In the world-of-work, AI is empowering users in every industry to increase sales, efficiency, and productivity. While there are clear business wins in doing and achieving more, the relentless focus on more is […]
Thriving Women Leaders: Executive Coaching Forum for Women Leaders in Higher Ed
As a certified executive coach, I have been trained in the stakeholder centered approach for impactful leadership. How are you showing up in your organization? How do others perceive you? Are you willing to get vulnerable, embrace humility, and address your blind spots to honor a growth mindset? It’s essential to bring others into your […]
Find Your Passion and Play to Your Strengths
A recurring bit of career advice from the women with whom I conducted interviews across the globe was to find your passion. It sounds simple but I am shocked at how few people are actually in tune with their personal passions. I’m not talking about romance but I’m asking you to consider what motivates and […]
What Interests You?
The next predictor in your personal self assessment is Interests. Knowing your interests can help you discover your passion and choose a career. Interests are the biggest predictors in career selection since we gravitate towards what we like. One of my favorite assessment tools is the Strong Interest Inventory® (Strong) which measures career and leisure […]
What Do You Value?
Choosing the first few entries for the blog launch was a difficult task since I truly cherish each woman’s unique story. Heidi Roizin’s transition is indeed motivational for many women so it was a great place to begin. Heidi was motivated to lose weight which led to her profitable CD venture: SkinnySongs. She had a […]
Ready, Set, Launch!
Welcome to my blog – This is Not the Career I Ordered. In this tumultuous economy many women have changed careers by necessity and others, by choice. We’ve had to learn to navigate the new normal of the career world and take ownership of our personal career destinies. This has given women a unique opportunity […]
