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Returning to IRL networking?

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Jul 23, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Entrepreneurship

Before the pandemic, you’d probably heard it a million times: networking is key. And while that may be true, the idea of returning to stuffy events and schmoozing with strangers isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Anyone who’s ever been to an in-person networking event...

Lessons from Unlikely Leaders

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Mar 19, 2022 | blog, Career Advice, Featured Posts, Leaders & Executives

A while back, a client told me about a training program she had attended about “executive presence” and how its tone-deaf message badly missed the mark. The narrow-minded, toxic key message centred on the idea that there is a specific and correct way to be an...

The Portfolio Career (Part 2 of 2)

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Apr 3, 2021 | blog, Career Advice, Mature Professionals , Recent Graduates

In this blog post, we pick up where we left off in our discussion of The Portfolio Career (Part One). Clearly, the world of work is changing. This is even truer during (and probably after) the pandemic. The “gig economy” that rose in the post-financial-crisis job...

The Portfolio Career (Part 1 of 2)

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Mar 20, 2021 | blog, Career Advice

I often talk about building resilient careers, in fact, it’s part of my tagline “Building Resilient Careers and Organizations.™” It’s only in retrospect that I noticed that I’ve also been building a portfolio career. The portfolio career involves having several income...

The One That Got Away: Being Passed over for Promotion

by Dr. Helen Ofosu | Jun 13, 2020 | blog, Career Advice, Diversity & Inclusion, Hiring Staff & HR, Workplace Culture

Lately, with so much attention being paid to systemic racism it is a reminder that people of colour are less represented as one climbs up the corporate ladder. This means that most Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) have experienced being passed over for...