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Crack The Career Code
Alphonso David, President and Chief Executive Officer, Global Black Economic Forum
Aaliyah Haqq, Chief Operating Officer, 'The Academy for Advancing Excellence'
Alphonso David, President and Chief Executive Officer, Global Black Economic Forum
Aaliyah Haqq, Chief Operating Officer, 'The Academy for Advancing Excellence'
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00:00Denise and Kenyatta just came up here and swept the floor so I really don't know what y'all want
00:07me to say but I definitely do feel that it's important to highlight that it is so integral
00:16that you ladies understand that the era of time that we're living in is very important
00:23in laying the foundation for your next opportunity and for the next era that you are to live
00:29it's okay to be like girl I can't go to the movies this is fine I can't go to the club this time
00:34I can't play around because you have to be intentional about everything you're doing now
00:40so you can lay the foundation for our piped up new era when you get that job come
00:45hello hello hello y'all with me when you get that job when you get that opportunity when you move
00:53to that new city you'll already have it and it all boils down to discipline so just give some more
01:00disruption for that last panel because I was back there like yes time management yes written and oral
01:06communication yes there were so many gems in that so on the next note I see a lot of phones out just
01:14make sure that you are hashtagging g u disruptor summit when you're posting on tick tock instagram
01:23youtube shorts all the things on social media just make sure that you put that on there so we can
01:28capture it and move on so how y'all feeling y'all feeling good do you feel like you've learned
01:34something okay point at the stage and say I learned something if you're on the live stream chat say I
01:40learned something I know we can't hear y'all but we learned stuff in here all right so our next
01:45conversation is about something that can help us at every stage of our careers did you all know that
01:52it's estimated that in one lifetime we all of us everybody that can hear my voice will spend over 90,000
02:02hours at work I don't like that for us either that's a lot of time that's a lot of time especially
02:10with daylight savings time being so aggressive this year it's too much it's way too much it's giving
02:17daylight debt okay daylight savings time is too far in our pockets all right and just think about what
02:24might happen if we began our professional development process today and I say we not just because I have a
02:31cute job at YouTube but I still have places to go we all have somewhere to go so career development
02:36does not stop say it career development does not stop all right so to get that started we're doing
02:45another phone exercise pull your phones out again okay download the eSuite app okay everybody pause we're
02:52about to do Rachel and the B that is e s u i t e app from the app store and you can find that on google
03:00play if you have an android or you can also just get it all at once at the essence 360 app so without
03:10further ado here to share more about that is Alfonso David president and CEO of the global black economic
03:19forum and Aliyah Haq COO of the academy for advancing excellence they're here to help us crack the career
03:26code let's welcome them to the stage hello everyone hello hello hello so we are very very happy to be
03:51here we're excited to be here to announce a new professional development app that is going to be
03:59relevant to all of you in this room all of you who are watching streaming watching this live and as you
04:06heard from the introduction all of us spent an extraordinary amount of time working we need to
04:13make sure that we have resources that can actually help us transition from job to job but importantly help us
04:21transition and level up in our professional lives so as you heard I'm Alfonso David I'm the president
04:27and CEO of the global black economic forum and we are a global enterprise that's focused on economic
04:34opportunity and actually economic freedom for members of the black diaspora and marginalized communities
04:40one of the companies that we work with and one of our subsidiary is the academy for advancing excellence
04:47Aliyah Haq is the chief operating officer for the academy for advancing excellence and they
04:53are actually responsible for implementing this app that we're launching today so when I talk a very
05:01small amount of time we have about seven minutes or so to talk about this app and we're going to try
05:07to get in as much information as possible so you understand why this is important so first Aliyah
05:12why don't you tell us a little bit about who you are and what brought you to this work all right so
05:18I am the chief operating officer as Alfonso mentioned of the academy for advancing excellence I am
05:24repeating that so you'll find us on social media and start to follow us on LinkedIn especially and I've
05:30been in executive leadership development for 18 years so this is part of my life's work and what we do at
05:36the academy for advancing excellence is we help to create equitable workplaces so your 90,000 hours
05:42that you're spending at a job should not be in vain right we want to create workspaces where people
05:48cannot just survive but truly thrive and we do that in a host of ways and one of the ways that we do that
05:54is through coaching and years ago early in my career I had no idea what coaching was but if you download
06:01the app there's a sign over there that you can actually there's a QR code that you can scan
06:06and it's on the two platforms as essence 360 no spaces and you'll be able to download that app so
06:14a little bit about me and we'll talk more about coaching but I know you've got something else for
06:18me yeah so let's talk about coaching actually let's get to that because many people may not know
06:24what coaching is and why coaching is relevant to them so let's talk a little bit about what is coaching
06:30coaching so coaching is when you have this independent third party who had who can help
06:35you go to your next level so there are all types of coaches there are life coaches transformational
06:41coaches but we are all about development professional development so we're executive
06:46coaches essentially but it doesn't mean that you have to be an executive it means that you can be on
06:51whatever path so if you're a creative trust me you need a coach if you are in transition you need a
06:59coach if you're in a corporate career you need a coach if you work in non-profit everyone can
07:04utilize a coach if you've ever played a sport you know your coach is not going to tell you exactly
07:10what to do they're going to give you tips they're going to give you hints they're going to give you
07:14the blueprint so that you can be at your best coaches support and challenge you so that you can
07:20again level up and you can be the best version of you so let's talk about a few things
07:24what would you give us some examples of how you would coach someone or certain items that you
07:33think or specific goals or ideas or thoughts that people bring to the table when they say
07:38i would like to get receive coaching so we were just talking about resumes we actually have resume
07:44review as part of our coaching coaching responsibilities or coaching suite of services
07:49so you might be in transition and say you know what i need a third party to look at my resume we
07:55do that type of work you might have had a conflict with someone at work and you need help to really
08:00get through it because maybe you don't feel like hr has your back or you don't feel like you've got
08:05that friend at work to talk to you coaching will help you with that maybe you want to talk about what
08:10it looks like to get from point a to point c and you need the help to get to get all of the steps so
08:15that you can continue to move up the ladder if that's what you're choosing to do if you're an
08:20entrepreneur maybe you're thinking about a new product and you need help thinking through okay
08:25how am i going to bring this product to market our coaches can help you with that as well what if i'm
08:30not in the workforce yet let's just assume i'm finishing college or i'm in graduate school do you
08:38think that coaching is helpful for someone who's going through the educational system right now
08:43absolutely i think that coaching is one of the things that we have not always had access to
08:48and the access will give you the leg up it'll give you the information that you need that you might not
08:53even think to know to ask for and if i would have had a coach to help me with the transition from college
08:59to the workforce i just think about how helpful that could have been for me or even from high school
09:04to college to think through things like oh you should always go to your professor's office hours
09:09i my mother was not a college graduate nor was my father so there were certain things about
09:14navigating even college that i didn't know that had i had a coach it would have been very helpful
09:18and what what would you say is the most misunderstood concept when it comes to coaching because when we
09:27think of professional coaching many people don't have a clear concept of what that is but there's
09:32a lot of miscommunication or misinformation about coaching so one a coach is not a therapist so
09:39that's one trust me like if you need a therapist which i'm all about go get a therapist but a coach
09:44is not a therapist and a coach is also not going to tell you exactly what to do they're going to give
09:50you some guidelines some frameworks some ideas but they're not going to say go do this because we all
09:56have free will and we have the opportunity to really build our own capabilities and that's actually
10:01the power of coaching is that you get an opportunity to build those capabilities so the purpose of this
10:07this uh session is to wet your palate on what coaching is what we're going to do is we're going
10:14to provide and the folks in the room know who they are we've identified 10 people and we're going to
10:22provide free coaching sessions to those 10 people and then we're going to come back and they will tell
10:30you about their experiences and they will tell you about why coaching may or may not have been
10:36helpful for them we almost we can guarantee that they will all say coaching was actually helpful and
10:43not only helpful but potentially transformative in how they see their careers how they see the future
10:49how they see possibilities moving forward and so we're going to take a break we're going to leave
10:54the stage we're going to provide these free sessions to the 10 people we've identified and
11:00is during office hours at 1 30 i believe 1 30 to 2 and we're going to provide coaching sessions to
11:07these folks and then we're going to come back and talk a little bit more about coaching again if you
11:12haven't downloaded the app you can go to essence 360 download the app learn about coaching get all of
11:20the information you need and then we're going to come back and provide more information thank you all
11:25for having us thank you
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