RHR 142: I Wish I'd Known This: 6 Career-Accelerating Secrets for Women Leaders with Brenda Wensil and Kathryn Heath

Send us Fan MailI Wish I’d Known This: 6 Career-Accelerating Secrets for Women Leaders (Berrett-Koehler) is a roadmap for success to guide any and every woman on her career journey. Whether a seasoned veteran who is feeling “stuck,” or a graduate just stepping into the workforce, this comprehensive resource is packed with compelling stories and tried-and-true strategies that provide women with the skill set to accelerate through obstacles along their leadership paths. In this indispensable guide, authors and executive coaches Brenda Wensil and Kathryn Heath of executive coaching firm Bravanti (formerly with Flynn Heath Holt) leverage their decades ofexperience to provide a comprehensive accounting of the six blind spots that derail women’s careers and the strategies that set them on the path for an impactful, sustainable career.These seasoned leadership experts have spent decades coaching more than 800 women and working with women executives, middle managers, and professionals across industries and age groups. Through their coaching, assessments, leadership and organizational development work at Bravanti, Brenda and Kathryn have amassed a treasure trove of data and case studies that have informed their keen insights into what works for women’s career advancement and the forces that delay or destroy it. Coupled with the data gleaned from coaching hundreds of women and responses from 4,000, 360-degree interviews, these renowned leadership experts have becomethe go-to experts for executive coaching, especially for women, both in the US and abroad.The authors emphasize the professional blind spots that women are prone to missing. These obstacles, they point out, can minimize career potential, impact, and advancement. The result is that some women end up drifting instead of driving through their careers, going it alone instead of building a posse, and leaving their “reputationality” (that special something we are known for) to chance.In I Wish I’d Known This, Brenda and Kathryn outline six challenges women commonly face on their professional journeys and map a way to accelerate through them for higher-impact careers.Readers will learn how to:• Set a vision, strategy, and plan for their careers• Learn who they are, what they offer, and how to tell their stories• Seek and act on feedback to guide their paths• Prepare and practice for the best outcomes• Enlist help and support from othersEffective women leaders inspire innovation, sustain profitability, manage risk, and create environments for inclusion and diversity to increase. Chock full of strategies, stories, and practical skills, this book will hasten a woman's progress and impact as a professional woman and liberate her to excel in her career on her own terms.https://www.amazon.com/Wish-Id-Known-This-Career-Accelerating-ebook/dp/B09MSNXV1NBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showRebel HR is a podcast for HR professionals and leaders of people who are ready to make some disruption in the world of work.  Please connect to continue the conversation! https://twitter.com/rebelhrguyhttps://www.facebook.com/rebelhrpodcasthttp://www.kyleroed.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-roed/