Check out her session "The Secrets to
Work+Life "Fit" Success" on Friday Morning of the conference.
By Cali Williams Yost, CEO and Founder
Flex+Strategy Group/Work+Life Fit Inc.
I graduated from Columbia
Business School in 1995, and have spent the last two decades in the trenches working
with hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals to create new ways to
manage work, life and business.
Earlier this year, Columbia invited me back to
present to a group of prospective female students. I began by asking the 200 bright, ambitious
young women in the room, “How many of you are sitting here today making career
choices based upon future personal responsibilities that you don’t even have
yet?” Almost every hand in the room went
up.
Perhaps, like those young women, you see personal
and professional conflict looming in your future. They needed a ray of hope. Thankfully,
I was able to I provide it.
First, I urged them to “go for it 100%”
professionally, get as much experience as they can, and make themselves as
valuable as possible. I shared my personal
stories of managing my work and life, as a business owner, wife, and mother,
and I shared other examples of women who had creatively and flexibly found
success on and off the job.
But then, I translated the secrets from those
stories into a “how to” practice they could apply in their lives throughout
their careers. I explained how to take
action and find their own solutions based on their unique circumstances,
because knowing how to manage your work+life fit, day-to-day and at major life
transitions, is a modern skill we all need to succeed. But, unfortunately, few have.
Those concrete answers gave them hope. Their concern about future limits lightened. After the presentation, a number of the young
women approached me and said, “We are always told how impossible and hard
managing our work and life will be. Not
only did you tell us that it will all be okay, but you actually told us how to
do it!”
Join me on Friday, June 28th at the MBA
Women’s Leadership Conference for my presentation, “The Secrets to
Work+Life "Fit" Success,” and I will tell you how to do it too. I will
share the
commonsense, real-world secrets for success on and off the job that every woman
should know at the start of her career. Secret #1: There is no
balance!
For more, I invite you to check out my
Work+Life Fit blog, follow me on Twitter @caliyost, and “like” our Facebook
page.
facebook.com/worklifefit
Cali Williams Yost is an internationally
recognized workplace flexibility expert who has pioneered new ways to manage
work, life and business in the modern economy for nearly two decades. She
is the author of the new guide for everyday success on and off the
job, Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day, (Center
Street/Hachette, 2013), and the formal work and life reset "how
to", Work+Life: Finding the Fit That’s Right for
You (Riverhead/Penguin Group, 2004).
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