In this episode, “Rising Star of the Consulting Profession” Claire Pedersen Patel shares insight into her rapid career rise, from the importance of finding confidence to the traits that turn employees into great leaders.
You’ll learn:
- How Claire’s own initiative led to her leading the entire associate team.
- What to do when you feel like you don’t know what you’re doing at work.
- The qualities that truly stand out on resumes.
Claire Pedersen Patel is a Principal and Capability Leader at Trexin Consulting. She was recently recognized with Consulting Magazine’s “35 Under 35 Rising Stars” award. Claire manages one fifth of Trexin’s client delivery team and remains the only non-partner managing a department at Trexin. Prior to Trexin, she was a Global IT Chief of Staff at Aon Risk Services, reporting to the CIO. She has always been passionate about building the next generation of consultants; in 2015, Claire tripled the size her team. She fundamentally changed how projects were staffed, delivering strong business growth and greater value for clients. Her team is the fastest growing part of the company and will double again in 2016.
Being a great communicator is more than art alone. It’s also science. In this episode, Dr. Carmen Simon shows us the link between brain function and communication results, and explains the brain science behind how we absorb information and turn it into action.
You’ll learn:
- How to harness the psychological action hierarchy of reflexes, habits and goals to communicate easily actionable messages.
- The importance of repetition, and how to use it to your advantage.
- The one thing that the top 50 SlideShare presentations all have in common.
Dr. Carmen Simon is a renown cognitive scientist who specializes in neuroscience research. She takes a daring approach to persuasion by placing memory at the heart of all decision-making. She is the founder of Memzy, a presentation design and training firm that uses brain science to help business professionals stay on their audiences’ minds long enough to make a difference. Find out more in her new book, Impossible to Ignore, which released this week.
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