Episode 148 - Dr. Benjamin Ritter | Crafting and Navigating YOUR Career with Clarity, Confidence and Control

Are you struggling to find your true path in your career? Do you want to craft a career that you love? Are you looking for ways to live a more conscious, intentional and fulfilling career?

Our special guest Dr. Benjamin Ritter answers these and other questions about leadership, career design and crafting a job you love from a job you have.

Dr. Benjamin Ritter, founder of Live for Yourself (LFY) Consulting is a leadership and career coach, L&D director, values geek, international speaker, podcaster, author, mentor, and passionate about guiding others in finding, creating, and sustaining a career they love.

With over 10 years of experience coaching working with clients from companies such as Amazon, Coursera, Doordash, Google, Fiserv, Northwestern, Pinterest, Segment, Twilio, and Yelp, Ben understands how to navigate any career path you decide you want to travel.

During his time as a healthcare executive and side hustling entrepreneur he was overworked and under-utilized, and despite his professional success didn’t feel successful. After much introspection he pivoted professionally and launched himself into the field of leadership development and personal empowerment.

Since launching his coaching practice he has guided hundreds of professionals toward creating the career they love and has impacted thousands through his events and media content.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

Embracing curiosity in exploring your career path
Leaders must ask their people what they want their career path to look like
Career growth is not always about finding a new job, but recrafting your job where you are
Workforce realities around career desires, career paths and key questions to ask your people
Redefining career growth and what constitutes a normal career
Changes in the ways people see work and career
What it means to craft a job from the job you have
Understanding the three C’s of self-leadership: 1. Clarity; 2. Confidence; 3. Control
Role of corporate culture and values in career decisions
Getting clear on your dream companies
Importance of integrating your work life and your personal life relative to your career
Rethinking your career by rethinking your life and priorities
Natural curiosity and passion will naturally create opportunities
Strategies for interviewing the companies you want to work for
Exploring entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
The value of building reflection into your day
Strategies to advance your career
Importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in organizations and with team members
Understanding humanistic leadership – people are people and they’re not their work
The reality that everyone has a story and we don’t know it (empathy)
“The most important leader is the one that’s inside you.”