Disrupt Your Career – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Joerg Staff is a Chief People Officer, Executive Board Member, Supervisory Board Member, Investor and Advisor for (Tech) Start Ups with over 20 years of experience leading HR and transformation strategies at global companies like Atruvia AG, SAP, DHL/Deutsche Post and Daimler. He specializes in business and digital transformation, cultural change, and employee experience. Joerg is a thought leader on the future of work, having authored numerous articles and a book, delivered keynotes, and pioneered innovative HR practices in large organizations.

In this episode, we talk with Joerg about his diverse career journey, from his early ambition for financial independence to leading global HR and transformation initiatives, his key leadership lessons, the importance of vision for career planning, and how he navigated his transition from corporate life to consulting. Joerg also delves into the future of work, emphasizing human-centric leadership and the role of digitalization and AI, while offering advice on balancing personal and professional growth in a rapidly changing environment.

Links from the episode: 

• Joerg’s LinkedIn profile
• Joerg’s Disrupt Your Career Author Chat interview about his book The AI Revolution in the World of Work

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Imagine living a life with no limits, overcoming self-doubt, and making the most of every situation. What if you could go to bed every night without worrying about tomorrow? Dr. Benjamin Ritter offers a powerful roadmap to build self-confidence, resilience, and a fearless mindset.

In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Dr. Benjamin Ritter about his new book, Becoming Fearless: 65 Strategies to Journey from Self-Doubt to Self-Mastery (Live for Yourself Consulting, September 2024). In this transformative guide, Dr. Ritter provides actionable strategies to help readers overcome their fears, defeat self-doubt, and unlock their inner strength.

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Dr. Benjamin Ritter’s personal page

Dr. Benjamin Ritter’s LinkedIn profile

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How is digital coaching transforming employee experience and the future of work as we know it? Anna Tavis explores this important and timely question, shining a light on the rapid growth of professional coaching in the workplace and its superpower to change behaviors and transform organizations.

In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Anna Tavis about her book co-authored with Woody Woodward, The Digital Coaching Revolution: How to Support Employee Development With Coaching Tech (Kogan Page, February 2024). Their book includes information to help you scale digital coaching across your workforce and offers insight into how to determine what will help every company's specific needs and what questions to ask a digital coaching provider.

• Order Anna’s book
• Anna’s NYU faculty page
• Anna’s LinkedIn profile 

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Riet Grond is a Human Resources executive with 25 years of experience. He has a successful track record in strategic HR leadership, with in-depth experiences across major functional HR areas (Data & Analytics, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Organization and Culture Development), covering geographies such as China, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe, and the USA. He is recognized for excellence in leading transformative change, developing diverse talent, managing difficult situations, and creating inspiring and curious work environments that drive exceptional performance.

We talk with Riet about how his extraordinary career has unfolded, his moments of pride and challenge, his transition from consulting to HR, the key lessons he learned  working with diverse leaders, his advice for early career professionals who are looking to start out in their careers, his passion for mountaineering and how is uses it as a school for life and leadership, how individuals and organization can better frame returning to work after time spent parenting, how organizations should reconsider their approach to people management in a context of rapid change and his most exciting projects for the coming year.

Links from the episode:

• Riet’s LinkedIn profile
• Careers at Novartis
• Learn more about the exceptional mountain rescuer Bruno Jelk

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Octavia Goredema is the founder of Twenty Ten Agency, a career coaching company and the author of PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women. Her mission is to help underrepresented professionals advance their careers. Octavia has coached leaders at renowned companies including Google, American Airlines, Tinder, General Motors, Nike and Dow Jones. She is the host of the Audible Original series How to Change Careers with Octavia Goredema. Originally from England, she is based in Los Angeles where she has lived for over a decade.

We talk with Octavia about how her own career journey unfolded, the lessons she learned working in PR, media and communications, her advice for early career professionals who are looking to start out in their careers, why she wrote Prep, Push, Pivot and the main ideas of her book, the importance of discovering your true worth and cementing your career values, her Audible book series How to change career, what she would like to see organizations doing better when managing talent and careers, and her most exciting projects for the coming year.

Links from the episode: 

• Octavia’s personal site
• Octavia’s book PREP, PUSH, PIVOT
• Octavia’s LinkedIn profile

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Inflection moments are those points at which we stand at a crossroads and ask ourselves, as leaders, what’s the next mountain to climb? Sharath Jeevan explores the question of how to navigate those crossroads with the right roadmap, in his newly released book, Inflection.

In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Sharath about his latest book Inflection: A Roadmap for Leaders at a Crossroads (Intrinsic Press, February 2024). Sharath believes that these critical moments are when we have the chance to future-proof success – for ourselves, our organisations and others – for many years, even decades, to come.

• To order Sharath’s book Inflection
• Intrinsic Lab’s homepage 
• The DIAL Framework
• Sharath’s Linkedin profile 

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Valerie Sutton is a thought leader in career theory, coaching, and leading teams. Creating “career consciousness” with clients is her passion. A seasoned career coach with specialization in the MBA and education sectors, she has successfully overseen offices catering to over 900 students on an annual basis and is a LinkedIn Learning Instructor. Valerie’s prior experience includes the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

We talk with Valerie about her own career journey and the lessons she learned along the way, her time as head of career in universities and her transition as a co-founder, her advice for early career professionals who are looking to start out in their careers, her motivation to be involved in volunteering projects, her thinking and recommended strategies around networking, what she wishes employers could change, and her most exciting projects for the future.

Links from the episode:   

• Valerie’s homepage ‘Career Solution by Valerie’
•  Valerie’s courses on LinkedIn Learning
• Valerie’s LinkedIn Profile

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Jos Akkermans is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Careers and Organizational Behavior at the School of Business and Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In this first edition of Research Express, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Jos Akkermans about his research on what makes a career successful. 

• Read Jos personal homepage https://www.josakkermans.com
• Watch Jos’ TEDx Talk VU Amsterdam: What makes a career successful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DICR_TgRLfE

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Aha... Wow! Yes : how to accelerate learning, collaboration and transformation: towards a world of hope and joy” (Com-passion, 2023) explores nine mindset shifts essential when facing our future. It also outlines ten marks you need to make when leading transformation of organizations, systems and culture.

In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Gunnar George about his book Aha... Wow! Yes. Join Gunnar and his learning expeditions around the world – full of observations, reflections, big questions, practical models and inspiring stories.

To order Gunnar’s book Aha... Wow! Yes
To learn more about Gunnar LinkedIn profile

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Julia trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (UCL) and went on to a successful career as actor, director and producer in television, film and theatre. She launched the pioneering You Brand methodology and philosophy in 1989, at the start of a major recession, and she and her team have been using it to help people and organizations realize their full potential ever since.

We talk with Julia about her career journey from actress to leadership coach and the lessons she learned along the way, her advice for early career professionals who are looking to start out in their careers, her motivation and process to write ‘You Brand: a Manual for Confidence’ and the main ideas for her book, her view and advice on how to best communicate during video or AI powered interviews, the importance of confidence and authenticity, and her plans for the future including writing of her memoir.

Links from the episode:

• Julia’s Personal Presentation website
• Julia’s book You Brand
• Julia’s LinkedIn Profile

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