EVENT: Good Work - Finding a Career that Makes a Difference
Mar 29, 2023
Busting common myths about entering the daunting world of full time employment.
Date: Wednesday 26 April
Time: 14.00-15.30 BST
Location: Online
Shannon will focus on busting the common myths about getting an job, and provide top tips on making yourself as employable as possible. This webinar will cover a wide array of topics, as well as considering careers that will make a difference to the world, and to you. She will be drawing from her recently published first book, “Good Work: How to Build a Career that Makes a Difference in the World” with Kogan Page. Packed with useful tools and exercises, this step-by-step guide helps career changers figure out their passion and purpose, and how to effectively harness it to make real and positive change - on the world, and on their careers
Shannon Houde is an ICF-certified coach and talent strategist with over 20 years as a trusted advisor to evolving change leaders from Managers to CEOs. Over 12 years ago she founded Walk of Life Coaching, the first international career development and talent advisory business focused on ESG, sustainability, impact investing, diversity & inclusion, and corporate responsibility.
Shannon has mentored and trained 1000+ change leaders over 3000 hours to maximize their personal brands to advance their impact careers. She chose career coaching to combine her diverse experience as a hiring manager, a business coach and an ESG consultant for Adobe, Deloitte, BlackRock, and WWF, after having started her career 20 years ago in recruiting.
As a certified Goleman Emotional Intelligence meta coach, Shannon has been featured in the Guardian, Forbes, Huffington Post, Recruiter.com, Marie Claire, and Real Leaders and speaks regularly at international conferences including for Kering, GreenBiz, Hitachi, BSR and Net Impact.
