Career Transitions & Leadership

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Jennifer Speciale about career transitions and leadership, cultural agility, and how we should handle the barriers during transition periods.

We also dive deeper into the essence of building psychological safety in the workplace, imposter syndrome and how companies should execute recruitments.

Jeniffer Speciale –  Career Transitions and Leadership

Jennifer Speciale is an Executive Leadership Specialist, Transformation Advisor and Founder of Speciale Executive Leadership. 

She has a Bachelors Degree in pre-clinical Neuropsychopharmcology from Indiana University Bloomington, Masters Degrees in International Business  and International Relations & Diplomacy from Seaton Hall University. Her work has included recruitment, talent, change and transformation roles at Google, Bloomberg, Indeed, Fjord, McKinsey & Company and Amazon. She also recently became a Board Member for the Women in Leadership program at Mercy University.

Jennifer Speciale  talks about:

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• Growing up interested in language and culture
  
• How to build trust and relationship with different cultures
  
• Observation and empathy go together
  
• Qualities that make you a leader 
  
• Building psychological safety
  
• Being interested in neuropsychopharmacology and helping people
  
• Key things to keep in mind during recruitments
  
• Behavioral based questions during the recruitment process
  
• Staying close and being true to your passion
  
• Career trajectories
  
• Obstacles encountered when shifting into new roles
  
• The imposter syndrome
  
• Handling internal and external handbreaks
  

Tweets

“If you can empathise and mitigate your own frustration and see it for what it is, the only way to turn it around is by making it a safer environment and letting them feel that you genuinely want them to succeed. And that’s the only way to calm the nerves.” Empathy and frustrations by Jennifer Speciale on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Not everybody is a strong leader, but they still deserve and should move up in their career.” Jennifer Speciale talks about career trajectories on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“Leadership is something that can be learned, taught, and practiced.” Jennifer Speciale talks about becoming a leader  on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Jennifer Speciale  www.jenniferspeciale.com
Jennifer Speciale  LinkedIn
Jennifer Speciale Youtube
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
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