Webinar Recording
Aug 21, 2020
Webinar Recording: Making Now DOable: Discovering Career Opportunities During Complex Times
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About the Program
No matter how old we get we still seem calibrated to the intersection of “a new year” and “back to school.” Moving through this very complicated year, it is particularly important that you use the end of the summer to reflect on your career and position yourself for a successful year end. The one hour webinar, Making Now DOable: Discovering Career Opportunities During Complex times presents information and a methodology that will help you avail yourself of unique opportunities in the marketplace, examine your internal and external networks to identify actions that can drive advancement and provide a way to approach the career refreshing process on 15 minutes a day. At the end of the program you will have a format for thinking about the future, information about ways build upon events that have shaped this year and concrete steps that you can implement immediately.
Speaker
Karen B. Kahn, EdD PCC
Karen Kahn, EdD, PCC, Psychologist, Strategic Coach and Founder of Threshold Advisors, began her exploration of her whiteness and how it fits within the diverse racial world when she was in 8th grade, and a rookie English teacher had the class read and react to The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks and Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. Embracing her mission to stand for racial fairness at a relatively young age, her direction was strengthened as a freshman in college, in 1970 while in a Community Psychology class, comprised of 10 black and 10 white students, she was further challenged to commit to a bold life direction of speaking loudly for racial equality and putting her actions behind her voice. During the class the Black professor who was to become her mentor called her out of class and told her, very bluntly, “You need to become a psychologist.” Karen affirmatively responded immediately, applied to graduate school to the University of Virginia and became among the first doctoral students, in 1976, to devote her dissertation topic to what was informally called Black Studies. Her education, actions and commitment continues to this day where she now works with law firms, often as a “back stage, old white woman” to challenge white colleagues and leaders to take action and support the exhausting, strategic work of diversity leaders and friends.