Manager to Director: A 360-degree View on How to Advance
About the class
Advancing from manager to director is one of the most difficult transitions to achieve in a professional career. How do you demonstrate your readiness, effectively brand & position yourself, and get the senior backing necessary for the jump? From a corporate perspective, what processes or programs should be in place to identify and groom talent to support their ascendence?
In this webinar, we have assembled a expert panel featuring Dana Gaughan (Chief Talent Acquisition Officer at Health Advances), Elena Kawkani (SVP, Group Account Supervisor at Harrison and Star) and Renita Kalhorn (Executive, Leadership and Performance Coach at TheFlowFactor.com) to present a 360-degree view of what it takes to make the step up from manager to director and what organizations can do to support this critical career inflection point. The panel will discuss:
- How organizations can better identify, groom, and support high potentials
- Key criteria candidates must have and/or develop
- How candidates should brand and position themselves for recognition
- Effective networking strategies to identify and cultivate mentors, sponsors, and champions
Please join us and we hope you will walk away with a clearer picture of what you can do to strategically and practically support your ambitions to cross the threshold from day-to-day managerial execution to the higher level directorial vision.
About the Presenter
Elena Kakwani is a seasoned healthcare advertising executive with 14 years of experience in the industry, and is passionate about building teams, fostering growth, and developing talent. She earned her BA in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania, and most recently completed the Bell Leadership Institute Achievers program.
Renita Kalhorn is an international performance coach, creator of the "5 Minutes to a Mental Six-Pack" training, and obsessed with understanding how we can fully realize our human potential. She's worked with 1,000+ high performers in 30+ countries, from Fortune 500 executives to start-up founders, and specializes in coaching military Special Ops (Navy SEALs, Green Berets) and disruptive entrepreneurs in developing their capacity to handle stress, uncertainty and volatility. She's also a Juilliard-trained concert pianist and martial arts black belt with an MBA from INSEAD.