CAREER GROWTH
FESTIVAL
a unique opportunity to invest in your professional development
Are you ready for the next one?
Online
What is the Career Growth Festival?
How are you going to do that?
Let us explain… There will be three different pillars.
Career Compass: to help you find clarity, confidence and fullfilment in your career.
Career Catalyst: to help you advance and level up your skills or take the next step in your career journey.
Career Conversations: to help you find more inspiration, motivation or connection.
WHO IS THIS FESTIVAL FOR?
This 3-day event is perfect for the ones who:
are lacking passion and motivation in their career,
are making a career move such as a job change or promotion,
have hit a ceiling in their role, and they want to get a promotion/pivot their career,
have recently graduated or just entered the workforce,
are hungry for more but not sure how to get MORE,
want to explore ways to find more fulfilment in their career, or find the next step because they are at a crossroads in their career path,
are HR people, Coaches, Managers, Business Owners, Employees and Students.
The Career Growth Festival can help you find your passion and your path through interactive discussion and learning.
You name your need and we got it covered!
Join the Festival to:
Connect 
Learn 
Get excited and motivated
DONT MISS A THING
The 1st Career Growth Festival 21-23 September 2023
We spill the beans…. see what happened on this 3day event!
🙋🏼♂️ 🙋🏼♀️more than 60 participants
📑 20 different career-related sessions
🗣 18 speakers
📅 3 days
⌛ 19h of learning & connecting
🤝 4 sponsors
AGENDA
Check out the previous agenda & topics here .
Here is what happened those three days:
But let's here it from the people who joined the event:
Our Speakers
Session 1: Join the Marvel Squad by identifying your Career Superpower
Key takeaways:
- We all have superpowers, we just need to be able to understand where we need to look!
- Practical exercises and hands-on workshop to grab every aspect of your life and uncover the strengths and knowledge you got from that!
- Participants reconnected to their superstrengths and potentially they will form the Career Growth Festival Justice League!
Session 2: Cash Consciousness: Elevate Your Money Mindset with Chrysa & Dionne
Key takeaways:
- Practical, simple tips were given to help change your financial state or just to help give more awareness of your money
- Understanding and assessing your money mindset is important and how you think about money impacts many aspects of your finances
- Tapping can be an impactful tool to help calm you and shift your nervous system and mindset around finances
- Burnout can have many different causes and look different for everyone
- Focusing on well-being and your whole self is important in preventing and correcting burnout
Session 1: Become a Time Management Master
Key takeaways:
- Write it out! Get your to-do list out of your head
- Break it down, and then create a plan
- Make sure you schedule in things you WANT to do along with the other tasks you NEED to do
Session 2: Cash Consciousness: Elevate Your Money Mindset with Chrysa & Dionne
Key takeaways:
- Practical, simple tips were given to help change your financial state or just to help give more awareness of your money
- Understanding and assessing your money mindset is important and how you think about money impacts many aspects of your finances
- Tapping can be an impactful tool to help calm you and shift your nervous system and mindset around finances
- Burnout can have many different causes and look different for everyone
- Focusing on well-being and your whole self is important in preventing and correcting burnout
Session: Self-confidence & breaking unhelpful patterns
Key takeaways:
- A small change, a small YES to yourself can make a big impact in your life! Say yes even when you are not ready
- Self-confidence is crucial in how you will advance your career and give you more opportunities.
- Expertise alone will not bring you to the next level, and being too much of an expert can actually limit your opportunities.
Session: Confidence Booster
Key takeaways:
- Confidence booster shot!
- What is and is not confidence, from showing your best side in an interview, presentations and as leader.
- Tips, tools and techniques to help with confidence.
Session: Unlocking Effective Communication: Applying Aviation Human Factors Training
Key takeaways:
- A truly unique perspective on the effects of how effective communications can save or destroy lives.
- Bringing the tools from the Aviation Human Factors, Dimitris demonstrated the behavioral elements that can affect communications.
- Taking information from aviation and the importance of communication in the industry and translating to your life and your wor
Session: Called to Action: Embracing Authenticity in Female Leadership
Key takeaways:
- We discovered in this session what female leadership is and what it is not.
- What does balancing the feminine and masculine qualities look like and how can we tap more into our true authentic and genuine self.
- Lastly, we worked on how to intentionally prioritize the values and qualities of the female leadership.
Session: Move Your Career Forward: 5 Body-Mind Tips to Increase Energy and Focus
Key takeaways:
- Embodiment is important in times of transition or when you feel a bit stressed or uncomfortable, using centring activities can help take you out of fight or flight
- How movement and other embodiment activities can help to change your state
Session: Get up and Lead: How to tap into your personal power as an aspiring corporate leader
Key takeaways:
- Rebecca explored what leadership is perceived as and what it really means and how it is portrayed in the workplace and in life
- To be a leader, you need to start being a leader even before you are on a promotion list or in a corner office. Are you living as the leader you want to be NOW?
Session: We-Mind vs. Me-Mind: Play to your Strength for Professional Success
Key takeaways:
- Understanding the difference between the Me-Mind and We-Mind and how it impacts our lives and decisions
- Jessica shared how a terrifying experience made her shift and challenge her perspective about her We-Mind and Me-Mind
Session: Career Conversations
Key takeaways:
- Levi posed a great question and reflection, many people focused on ‘What should I do with my career?’ and he challenged them to change it to ‘What should I do NEXT?’. Levi has gone from working at startup companies to starting a men’s support and coaching group and a Dungeons and
Session: Career Conversations
Key takeaways:
- Heather has had many pivots in her life and career as she learned more about herself and how she can incorporate HER into her business. Her path changed from aspirations to be in acting to becoming a cosplay enthusiast and fitness professional who is passionate about inclusion and making fitness fun!
Session: The JLo Trifecta Business Strategy: Find Your True North
Key takeaways:
- Taking time to become clear on who you are and what sparks you is the foundation to building a career journey that will feed your soul. What is your true north?
- In a world where we can gather tons of information in a split second, remember that overwhelm can quickly happen which can cause fear and the inability to progress. When you gather ‘information’ and you take 2 or 3 pieces of that information that really resonate with you and implement that information into your life, it now becomes ‘education’. When you share that ‘education’ with someone else, now you have ‘wisdom.’
- Bees and beavers are busy. You can be highly scheduled and remain present for each moment to gain the most out of your day!
Session: Increasing productivity through nutrition and blood sugar balance
Key takeaways:
- How to increase productivity through nutrition and blood sugar balance
- What is blood sugar balance
- What are signs of poor blood sugar balance
- What is insulin and why does it matter
- How to balance our blood sugars 4 steps plus 2 bonus steps
Session: CLIMB BIG PEAKS IN YOUR CAREER –Mindset Tools from Yosemite Big Wall Climbing
Key takeaways:
- Grit is key in building a career and in interviews – how to stay motivated if things get tough and take longer than expected
- You’re already standing on a mountain of value – we will work on recognizing what it is
- Find your team – climbing peaks in your career is easier if you have people in your environment that support you
Session: Following your Passions – The Business of Pleasure
Key takeaways:
- Embodiment should be an integrated practice in business and life to guide us and help us be present and find pleasure in every day
- “Work should feel good. Period.” Whatever you’re doing day in, day out to make money should feel good at a fundamental level, even if it’s a hard job
- It’s ok to be multipassionate, you need clarity but you can still try new things. Have a core to what you do, and have other areas you can explore and try as you grow
Session: Career Conversations
Key takeaways:
- Anamaria was on a ROLL moving her career as a HR Business Partner, then she took a risk and pivoted to Learning & Development! She shared what she learned along the way during her pivot and some questions that guided her on her path
Session: Mind your business
Key takeaways:
- Confidence comes from inside and is built in little steps and actions
- Get clear on your values and align your business to those values.
- Create your vision exactly as YOU want it, not how others do it and remove comparison
Session: Clarity Check-in Series
Key takeaways:
- Stemming from the simple principle that “Questions are the answers”. The topic of finding clarity is important as it brings insight, new perspective and peace. Clarity check-in Series is a brief and yet intense self-discovery journey which happens in a group setting.
Get ready to take notes, have hands-on trainings and workshops and be inspired by the amazing speakers joining us to share their valuable stories!
SPONSORS
University of Westminster
The University of Westminster started out 180 years ago as the first polytechnic in London and one of the first in the UK, established to educate the working people of London. Today they continue to build on this reputation, helping students from a variety of backgrounds to realise their full potential.
GrowthUP
GrowthUP is a space where Growth and Coaching meet, making coaching accessible to everyone. With the first coaching APP in the market, many programmes and workshops and the “Coach-UP” initiative, GrowthUP takes you in on a journey of growth.
Butter
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Wework
WeWork was founded in 2010 with the vision to create environments where people and companies come together and do their best work.
Since opening their first location in New York City, they’ve grown into a global workplace provider committed to delivering flexible solutions, inspiring, safety-focused spaces, and unmatched community experiences.
Today, they’re constantly reimagining how the workplace can help everyone, from freelancers to Fortune 500s, be more motivated, productive, and happy—because that’s how tomorrow works.
CREATORS
Chrysalogy
Chrysalogy is the study of people’s professional and personal growth. It is all about making your dream career a reality, from getting career clarity and advancement to pivoting your career and balancing your life.
Radiance Coaching & Wellness
Radiance Coaching & Wellness firmly believes in learning from other people’s experiences to save you time instead of figuring things out on your own. It will help you approach things holistically and reduce stress in your personal and business life.