Episode One with Cathy Presland: making the world a little fairer and a little better

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

02/03/22 • 34 min

ABOUT THIS EPISODE’S GUEST

Cathy Presland is an executive coach and leadership consultant, former economist, public policy professional, and senior leader.

An adviser to Governments and international organisations around the world for over twenty years, she has lived and worked in Africa, where she designed and led global anti-poverty initiatives including setting up a micro-lending fund for women, working for a policy think tank, and consulting for the World Bank, the European Union, and other governments and international organisations along the way. She had held senior positions in the public sector, working alongside heads of government, negotiated EU regulations, and headed up the strategic development of multi-billion-euro economic development funds.

In 2009, she moved away from the world of large-scale change in 2009 to become the person behind the scenes who supports the leaders of today and tomorrow. A highly regarded trainer, she had over 24,000 students in my online training courses, was a tutor for the Guardian Masterclasses series, and is the author of Write! Stop waiting, start writing, a well-regarded guide on writing non-fiction. She is Co-Lead at the RSA’s Coaching Network.

Cathy can be contacted at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinepresland/

Website: www.cathypresland.com

REFERENCES:

Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Royal Society of Arts

ABOUT YOUR HOST: CAROLYN

The Reason is hosted by Carolyn Parry who spent 17 successful but largely unfulfilling years in business heading away from who she really was and into an existential crisis that led to burnout. That experience led her to retrain as a certified career and life coach and remains at the heart of her passion for careers work.

Now twenty years on, she is an award-winning certified career/life coach and TEDx speaker. She runs Career Alchemy, a coaching practice that has helped thousands of early-stage and established professionals to create purpose-led careers they love.

President of the Career Development Institute, the professional body for the career development

This short clip explains briefly why "The Reason" podcast has changed its name to "Change Your Story".

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Find out more about Carolyn's new book:
'Change Your Story: Escape from a job you hate and create a career you love - on purpose.'
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02/03/22 • 34 min

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love! - Episode One with Cathy Presland: making the world a little fairer and a little better

Transcript

The Reason Podcast Episode One with Cathy Presland

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[00:00:07] One of the key indicators of true happiness in life is how much meaning we experience. Every day, millions of professionals of all ages and stages do work that feels largely pointless and leaves them feeling uninspired with the only real benefit being the money that comes with the work.

[00:00:25] The pandemic has shone once in a lifetime spotlight on what we want from our lives and con

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