Career Advice, Career Coaching, Changing the Conversation, Industry Insights
Rachel Fagnant-Fassler
It's no longer optional. All leaders need to be ...

We met Mitch Roling through our extended recruiting engagement with eMarketer and saw the significant contributions Mitch made to that fast-scaling organization through his data fluency. Mitch gained skills and experience that he was ultimately able to build into his own consultancy, My Dataist (hyperlink). Today he’s advising a host of clients around their data needs— and, of course, he’s our trusted go-to for anything data-related. With the power of data and analytics top of mind, we thought it timely to have Mitch weigh in on the topic.

Career Advice, Career Coaching
Rachel Fagnant-Fassler
How Can You Encourage Your Employees to See ...

As recruiters and career coaches, we’ve found that the most common reason individuals decide to leave an organization is lack of career growth potential. That’s particularly troubling in light of the fact that a significant percentage of these individuals were employees that the organization had hoped to retain– a loss magnified by the high cost of employee turnover. What contributes to this missed opportunity?

Career Advice, Career Coaching
Rachel Fagnant-Fassler
Three questions that can clarify your career ...

In 2023, our seemingly ever-changing economy has kicked off yet another year of career shifts, some self-catalyzed and some out of necessity. We are hearing from individuals at all levels of professional life questioning career direction--for some, looking to build future success and impact in a vastly changed economy, and, for others, fundamentally questioning the purpose of their daily professional lives and the mission of the companies they serve (or run). Every year offers the opportunity to pause and reflect, and this year, it seems, career planning is more essential than ever.

Rachel Fagnant-Fassler
In Memory of David King

This week at CFW Careers, we lost a trailblazer, a mentor, and a devoted husband. David King started our firm in 1973 as a career school for women—a training ground that gave them the tools needed to get into business-to-business sales, make more money than women typically earned, and step into leadership roles that had been reserved for men in generations before.

Career Advice, Career Coaching, Changing the Conversation, Industry Insights
Rachel Fagnant-Fassler
5 Key Learnings for Rising Leaders: CFW ...

Kim launched her career in advertising and grew to leadership in the adtech space. She’s led sales efforts in early stage startups, more established companies, and global organizations breaking into new markets. Kim is now the Global Head of Sales at K3, a retail tech software company. We asked Kim if she could share some of the key lessons she’s learned throughout her career, specifically for rising leaders and women in tech. As usual, she was insightful, passionate, and oh-so-wise in her answers.

Career Advice

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The top three questions that can help clarify your career goals

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As 2021 kicks off, many of us are feeling a particularly strong need to both move ahead and move beyond 2020. One way that’s manifesting with individuals we work with is questioning career direction--for some, looking to build future success and impact in a vastly changed economy and, for others, fundamentally questioning the purpose of their daily professional lives and the mission of the companies they serve (or run). Every year offers the opportunity to pause and reflect, but we can’t help but feel like this year is a bit different, and career planning is more essential than ever.

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How to take the leap and launch your start-up: lessons and advice from a first-time Founder.

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Marie Kloor and a former Goldman Sachs colleague, Dan Nielsen co-founded Hydra Studios as a “home-away-from-home” where New Yorker’s can exercise, meditate or recharge their human batteries- amenities typically limited to employees of larger companies. Last month they announced their $3.8 million funding round, and are opening their flagship studio at 120 Wall Street this week. We spoke with Marie about her personal career story, learnings along the way, and advice she has for other founders hoping to follow in her footsteps.

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Impostor Syndrome: How to identify, own and conquer that annoying voice

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Could there be a way to reframe Imposter Syndrome in a manner that allows us to take back control? To help us address this question, we called in a good friend of the firm, Stephanie Blair, an executive coach and consultant focused on grooming and growing innovative talent within sales-centric teams through her strategic advisory firm, Know & Flourish. Read on for her take on how we can identify and harness our awareness of our own Impostor Syndrome to take actionable steps through and forward:

Harnessing Your Sales Skills in the World Beyond: A Conversation With Former Changing the Conversation Panelist, Carolina Velasco

We caught up with a former Changing the Conversation panelist, Carolina Velasco, to discuss her career moves since then. Follow along as Carolina shares the unexpected ways her sales skills helped her carve out a place for herself in a completely new, well, everything: industry, function, AND country!