How To Navigate an Executive Career
Gayle Grader is an executive coach, advisor, and the Director of Executive Career Development at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In this role, she leads a team of executive career coaches and industry advisors to support the journey of mid-level executives, senior, and C-suite leaders as they find their paths to build and lead great companies and create opportunities for others.
Before joining MIT Sloan full-time, Gayle spent thirteen years helping professionals and businesses grow. Throughout her career, she has acquired thousands of hours coaching senior business clients from top organizations like JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and more. When she’s not coaching, she consults with companies large and small, from Fortune 500 to startups.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
What are the biggest challenges leaders are facing right now?
Why Gayle Grader says that you already have answers to the questions you have about your career
How can career coaching help you realize the steps you need to take?
Gayle talks about how the context you were raised in can affect the messages you internalize
The importance of maintaining consciousness about your organization’s inclusivity
Gayle shares the key to growing and taking yourself wherever you want to go
In this episode…
Do you have a vision of success? Are you taking the necessary steps and making a plan to accomplish your goals? Maintaining a vision for yourself is crucial to unleashing your potential and contributing to your success. But, just like any journey, you need to know where you’re going in order to get there.
Gayle Grader is an executive coach, advisor, and the Director of Executive Career Development at MIT Sloan. With her expertise, she’s supported the journey of countless executives as they find their paths to greatness. Today, she’s here to help you find yours.
Jess Galica sits down with Gayle Grader, executive coach, advisor, and the Director of Executive Career Development at MIT Sloan, to discuss the importance of maintaining a vision for your life and career. Gayle highlights how looking within can often answer the questions you have about your career and path. She also expounds on the value coaching can have in removing the subjectivity of the self and revealing the direction to achieving your goals.
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