055: Serendipity, Creativity, and Practicality - Anne Sugar

12/18/19 • 36 min

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Anne Sugar is an executive coach and speaker who has advised top leaders at companies including TripAdvisor, Sanofi Genzyme, and Havas. Anne serves as an executive coach for Harvard Business School Executive Education and has guest lectured at MIT. She is also a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Inc.

Prior to becoming an executive coach 15 years ago, Anne served as a senior leader in the advertising industry, where she oversaw a team of 75 employees as SVP of Media at Digitas. She managed media planning for Fortune 500 clients including General Motors, Federal Express, and Delta. She draws on her extensive management experience, as well as her in-depth training in coaching methodology to advise senior executives and high performers transitioning into leadership roles.

In this episode we discuss:

How Anne’s leadership and career transformation journey started by taking a few risks.
Her view that serendipity played a key role in the success of her early career days.
Anne’s understanding of how her core values have provided guidance through her career transitions.
For almost 20 years, Anne worked as a leader in the advertising industry, which included working on the launch of Apple computers, and how she then recognized when it was time for her to transition her career in new directions.
The throughlines through Anne’s career include her need for creativity and continuous learning.
Anne believes it is not necessary to make a large shift in your life in order to experience success or fulfillment. Instead, it is often about making a few very small shifts. She ends the show asking listeners to consider one small thing you can do right now to make a small shift in your life.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 055

In this episode we discuss:

How Anne’s leadership and career transformation journey started by taking a few risks.
Her view that serendipity played a key role in the success of her early career days.
Anne’s understanding of how her core values have provided guidance through her career transitions.
For almost 20 years, Anne worked as a leader in the advertising industry, which included working on the launch of Apple computers, and how she then recognized when it was time for her to transition her career in new directions.
The throughlines through Anne’s career include her need for creativity and continuous learning.
Anne believes it is not necessary to make a large shift in your life in order to experience success or fulfillment. Instead, it is often about making a few very small shifts. She ends the show asking listeners to consider one small thing you can do right now to make a small shift in your life.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 055

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054: Live Your Best Badass Life - Gina Warner

Gina Warner is the President and CEO of the National Afterschool Association. Before joining NAA, she served as the Executive Director of the Partnership for Youth Development in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she helped existing and new after school programs as they sought to serve children and families in post-Katrina New Orleans. Gina is also devoted to issues of women’s leadership and female empowerment. She has transformed that passion into establishing the Badass Women’s Book Club, an international resource for book discussions, online coaching and personal development resources. She loves to challenge women to live their best badass lives through book discussions, online coaching, and personal development resources.

Gina started her career as a special education teacher. Two years later, she went to law school and took that experience to do policy work for a US Senator in Washington, DC. From there, she moved to New Orleans, Louisiana and worked as a lobbyist. Then, Hurricane Katrina hit the region. Shortly thereafter, she was hired to serve as the Executive Director of the Partnership for Youth Development. While there, Gina helped existing and new after school programs as they sought to reach and serve children and families in post-Katrina New Orleans.

In this episode we discuss:

Gina’s education and career journey that allowed her the opportunity for many life-changing experiences.
Her belief in the importance of teaching young people, and especially young women, the vast array of career choices they have so they can realize their calling.
Gina values experiences that have kept her mind open to new professional and personal opportunities.
Her experience in surviving Hurricane Katrina and how that propelled her into running a youth development intermediary.
Gina’s struggle with Imposter Syndrome after having been through an amazing leadership program, and how she bought a book in the airport on her way home that transformed her life.
How she launched the Badass Women’s Book Club and its growth in the last two years.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 054

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056: Cultural Entrepreneurism and Innovation - Creative Re/Frame

Jen Guillemin, with a background in arts leadership, counseling, and teaching is an arts advocate and creative problem solver. She has mentored thousands of student artists and has spearheaded many arts initiatives at the Boston University College of Fine Arts and is the founding director of the BU visual arts Summer Institute.

Wendy Swart Grossman, with a background in the US and South African presidential campaigns, is a connector, a political and community organizer, a logistical wizard, and a visionary advocate/ activist for community building and engagement. She has held positions at Harvard's Museum of Science and Culture, and the Graduate School of Design as well as the Science Museum in London, UK and for many NGOs, nonprofits and social impact businesses.

Wendy and Jen have been working, teaching, plotting, laughing and changing the world together since 2013. After first introducing and teaching their Cultural Entrepreneurship class at Boston University they have gone on to host symposia, write chapters and articles all at the intersections of Arts & Culture, Business & Technology and Social Impact. They are launching their own consulting firm - Creative Re/Frame - and are working on a book, with the working title: “Future Studios: A DIY Guide for Artists and Creative Practitioners in the New Economy.”

In this episode we discuss:

Jen’s background in arts leadership, counseling, and teaching. She has mentored thousands of student artists and has championed arts initiatives at the Boston University College of Fine Arts and is the founding director of the BU visual arts Summer Institute.
Wendy is a connector, a political and community organizer, a logistical wizard, and a visionary advocate/ activist for community building and engagement.
Jen and Wendy have been working together since 2013, first teaching their Cultural Entrepreneurship class at Boston University. They have since hosted symposia, conferences and published articles on Arts & Culture, Business & Technology and Social Impact.
Wendy and Jen have launched a consulting firm called Creative Re/Frame.
They are writing a book whose working title is: Future Studios: A DIY Guide for Artists and Creative Practitioners in the New Economy.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 056