Getting Unstuck: How to Thrive During Career Disruption
August 15, 2017
If there’s one thing we know for sure, it’s that we all face change in the world of work on a regular basis. In this session, we look at how to redefine our relationship with our work, careers, and expertise to enrich our sense of authorship and satisfaction with what we do for a living. Based on her original research and her years of coaching, teaching, and consulting, Nayla Bahri will lead an interactive session that offers a chance to look again at how we relate to work, define ourselves professionally, and keep ourselves open to possibilities.
In this interactive session we will discuss:
- Actions you can take to gain more clarity about your career
- Steps you can take to claim your value
- How to weather the storms of the workplace with a sense of resilience
DATE: Wednesday, September 27th
TIME: 6:00pm- 8:30pm
LOCATION: Paul Hastings, 875 15th St NW Washington, DC 20005
Guest Speaker:
Nayla Bahri,
Leadership and Career Development Expert
Nayla is a leadership educator, curriculum & program designer, teacher, facilitator, coach and advisor. Her work reflects both a sense of purpose and a sense of humor.
Currently, Nayla is with the Ortho Clinical Diagnostics global talent management team, where she has responsibility for building the talent processes of a 4,000-person medical diagnostics company, including organizational development, leadership development programs, succession planning, management curriculum, employee engagement and workplace learning.
Nayla also teaches leadership development at Columbia Business School, the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and with the Institute for Personal Leadership. She serves as a coach for MBA students through the Columbia Business School’s Leadership Lab, which she co-founded. Prior, Nayla had a long career as Dean of Students at Columbia Business School where she was responsible for the overall experience of 1500 full-time MBA students and received multiple outstanding service awards from the school. Her other consulting and facilitation work includes partnerships with several women’s organizations including the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College, Bellaminds/NY Tech Women, the Quorum Initiative, and 85 Broads/Ellevate.
Nayla is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania, and earned her doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Columbia University. Her research focuses on career transitions and identity, how adults manage and learn from career change, and how peers and social networks influence adult learning. She has extensive training in social/emotional intelligence, group dynamics, conflict resolution, qualitative research methods, autobiography and storytelling in leadership, appreciative inquiry, action learning, and counseling and coaching.
