Finding Alignment: Strategic Positioning for Career Resilience during Uncertain Times
With every opportunity attracting hundreds of qualified candidates, it feels like you need to unlock some secret code just to get noticed. Exceptional technical skills aren’t enough for career advancement when the competition is tough. And let’s be honest: submitting your resume into the void and hoping decision-makers can somehow see your value isn’t a strategy that feels empowering.
In this workshop, Dr. Jenn Felsted-Knight will guide you through a five-step framework to transform reactive career moves into strategic positioning, helping you navigate uncertain markets with the same methodical approach you bring to complex technical challenges.
You'll learn how to read between the lines of opportunity descriptions, identify the problems they're actually trying to solve, and uncover unspoken priorities. This isn't about checking boxes or manufacturing perfect qualifications. Instead, we’ll focus on demonstrating how your unique combination of experiences, perspectives, and capabilities creates distinctive value for the opportunity at hand.
Whether you're navigating a career transition, pursuing an advancement opportunity, or determined to stand out in a crowded field, you'll learn how to create strategic alignment between your capabilities and organizational needs, transforming market uncertainty into your competitive advantage.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Jenn Felsted-Knight is a leadership coach and career strategist who helps women in STEMM create impactful careers they love. As a former neuroscientist, Dr. Felsted-Knight understands their unique opportunities and challenges. She founded Felsted Coaching & Consulting to help women infuse their goals with a sense of purpose and develop the habits and mindsets needed to reach the next level at work. Her work catalyzes lasting change by integrating brain science and coaching techniques, with balanced focus on self-reflection and bold action steps.
Dr. Felsted-Knight holds multiple coach certifications from the International Coaching Federation, Co-Active Training Institute, Wellcoaches, and The National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching. She earned her Ph.D. from Tufts University in Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition, with a concentration in Neuroscience, and a B.S. from the University of Connecticut in Physiology & Neurobiology and Psychology.
Dr. Felsted-Knight brings a unique blend of scientific knowledge, coaching expertise, and personal experience to her talks, leaving audiences inspired and equipped to implement positive change in their lives and careers.
Code of Conduct
This lunch event is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Anyone violating these rules may be sanctioned or banned from attending at the discretion of the conference organizers. Please contact the organizers through meet-up messaging/Slack, if you feel someone has broken the code of conduct.
Original source and credit:
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