Holly stands in front of screen encouraging audience to "be ambitious!"

Talk – Escaping Your Career Plateau: Perfectionism, Risk, &…

Corporate Talk

Escaping Your Career Plateau:
Perfectionism, Risk, & What's Actually in the Way

Research shows that women are held to higher standards in their work leading up to promotions. While career progression requires high-quality work, the stringent standards women must meet to be considered for promotion can lead to perfectionist behavior. This very behavior is then often identified as showing lack of leadership acumen, creating a career-stalling catch-22 for ambitious women.

Holly stands in front of screen encouraging audience to "be ambitious!" | by Vancouver photographer Angela McConnell

This talk aims to give women a look at how their working lives are affected by the complex forces
surrounding promotions, quality work, perfectionism, and risk. We’ll cover:

  • What perfectionism is & how it shows up in your work
  • The relationship between risk, perfectionism & gender
  • How ambitious women subtly undermine their own career progress
  • What's really at play when our careers stall -- and what to do next

The goal of this talk is to help you get at the deeper reasons for your career-limiting behaviors so you
can keep your career moving forward.

About Holly

Holly is speaker, facilitator, consultant, and coach with expertise in leadership, career development, feminist theory, and the unique mix of issues that make it challenging for women to succeed in STEM fields.

Holly spent the first ten years of her career as a mining engineer in an industry that is only 17% female. She now coaches ambitious women that want to advance their careers and works with companies to develop programs to retain female talent.

Holly speaks regularly at organizations including EA Games, PayPal, HSBC, MDA Systems, DevOps Days Vancouver, Women in Mining BC, Disrupt HR, The BC Women in Energy Network, UBC Masters of Public Policy & Global Affairs, The Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST), The Women in Leadership Foundation, and her own Women in Male-Dominated Industries.

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