Today’s career woman must be on top of her game to compete in our global business world. A big percentage of your credibility, competence, professionalism, will influence how you are perceived in the workplace by colleagues, staff, and clients. Even though you have worked hard to gain specialized training and expertise to advance in your job, performance counts for only 10% of career success. However, 90% depends on your professional image, personal brand, and visibility; your appearance, presence, ability to get along with others, work in teams, effectively communicate ideas and manage your reputation are key advantages to success in the workplace.
Whether you are a seeking visibility, career advancement, or entering the workforce, Professional Savvy career blog and podcast provides you with tips, strategies and resources that will help you:
- Build self-confidence in yourself and abilities
- Develop a successful personal and career brand
- Project a powerful professional image
- Obtain the “people skills” needed for career advancement
- Enhance your personal impact and workplace effectiveness
- Increase positive interactions with colleagues
- Improve communication skills
- Build visibility in your company and community
Professional Savvy Blogger
Brand Attributes:
Teacher, Idealist, Humorist, Resource, Creative, Supportive
Strengths:
Communication, Individuation, Futuristic, Activator, Positivity
Current Role:
Senior Diversity Manager in the Worldwide Diversity and Inclusion (WDI) Group at Pfizer Inc. In this role, I am responsible for the management and implementation of key enterprise initiatives, including Colleague Resource Groups, Global Women’s Initiative, Best of Lists/Benchmarking Surveys, and other projects involving the WDI group’s strategic framework and organizational needs. I also serve on the Worldwide Talent & Organizational Capability (WTOC) communities of practice for Career Development and Mentoring.
Outside of work:
I am pursuing an MBE, Masters Degree in Business Education, with emphasis in Workplace Learning and Communications at New York University. In my spare time, I am an active volunteer with Dress for Success Worldwide where I facilitate seminars on Projecting a Professional Image for students and women re-entering the workforce. Also, I am Jumpstart Career Coach at the Young Women’s Leadership School in East Harlem.
Favorite Quotes:
” You must be the change you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi
“People, like diamonds, have a basic market value, but it is only after they have been polished that the world will pay their true brilliance.” – William Thourlby
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson
“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”- Henry David Thoreau
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hobbies:
Creating perfumes, tea blends, and retreats at her favorite city tea salons. Playing DJ on my Internet Radio Station, nu-jazz lounge http://www.live365.com/stations/djepiphany1970
Key Interest:
Career and Professional image development, interpersonal communication, non-verbal behavior, persuasion, influence, political skill and collective intelligence (emotional, cultural and social)
Interested in learning:
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Comedy/Improv, Theater-based Training, Vinyasa Yoga, and Contemplative Arts (Chado -Japanese Tea Ceremony, Kado – Japanese Flower Arranging, and Kodo- Incense)
Favorite Book:
The Testament by John Grisham
Favorite places:
Rome, Florence,Tulum, Bangkok, Vienna, Surrey, New York City, Atlanta
Want to Visit:
Africa, India, Maldives, Bali, Japanese Royakans and Hot Springs, Grasse, and Provence
