A virtual walk with Laura Peck - Vice President of TransformLeaders.ca
06/18/21 • 26 min
Difficult conversations, encountering the media, making effective presentations, and leadership in crisis. -my next guest is an expert in all of these. Laura Peck, from Transform Leaders, started her career in Canada working as a Political Assistant on Parliament Hill, and as a Broadcaster for TV and radio with the CBC.
She’s well know as a leader who trains and coaches CEOs, Deputy Ministers, Ministers, and C-Suite Executives in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, and has been doing so for over 30 years!
Laura Peck is going to share insights from her impressive career and offer practical tips on putting your best foot forward.
At 15:05 hear Laura share am important part of who she is
"My earliest memories were, I wanted to have a career. My whole life I wanted to have a career, and that was a little bit different than some of the other people, however, even if somebody tried to, ya know, take me down a peg - or something like that, I just had this inner thing. I'm a third generation career woman also - my mother, her mother, that helped me a lot. But also, ya know, I'm willing to be accepting of other people, role modeling - I sought out mentors at the time, and I have done mentoring myself."
Check out the book! - Fearless: Girls with Dreams, Women with Vision
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Difficult conversations, encountering the media, making effective presentations, and leadership in crisis. -my next guest is an expert in all of these. Laura Peck, from Transform Leaders, started her career in Canada working as a Political Assistant on Parliament Hill, and as a Broadcaster for TV and radio with the CBC.
She’s well know as a leader who trains and coaches CEOs, Deputy Ministers, Ministers, and C-Suite Executives in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, and has been doing so for over 30 years!
Laura Peck is going to share insights from her impressive career and offer practical tips on putting your best foot forward.
At 15:05 hear Laura share am important part of who she is
"My earliest memories were, I wanted to have a career. My whole life I wanted to have a career, and that was a little bit different than some of the other people, however, even if somebody tried to, ya know, take me down a peg - or something like that, I just had this inner thing. I'm a third generation career woman also - my mother, her mother, that helped me a lot. But also, ya know, I'm willing to be accepting of other people, role modeling - I sought out mentors at the time, and I have done mentoring myself."
Check out the book! - Fearless: Girls with Dreams, Women with Vision
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