1. From High-Performing Employee to Emerging Leader With Jo Miller

2. Shawna Brown Senior Director, Product Line, Engineering
Welcome
Shawna Brown Senior Director, Product Line, Engineering

3. Jo Miller
A leading authority on women’s leadership, Jo delivers more than 70 speaking presentations annually to audiences of up to 1,200 women.
Her expertise lies in helping women lead, climb, and thrive in corporate careers.
Jo is founding editor of BeLeaderly.com.

4. The emerging leader’s dilemma
You can’t get a higher level job without leadership experience.
You can’t get the leadership experience without the job.

5. You can’t afford to wait…
Don’t wait for permission or an invitation to lead.
Don’t wait for someone to promote you.
Take the lead! Take charge of your career.

6. 3 Types of Courage for Emerging Leaders

7. 1. Identify Your Leadership Niche

8. “Be famous for something! Know your claim to fame.”
— General Manager, Software Industry

9. What’s your career superpower?

10. Your career niche What are you passionate about?
What does your organization or industry need and value?
What are your skills, strengths, and talents?

11. “Make your personal brand scalable.”
— Krista Thomas, VP of Marketing, The Rubicon Project

12. Ask yourself Where do I want to be in 3 years?
What do I need to become known for now, in order to get there?

13. Your leadership niche What are you passionate about?
What does your organization or industry need and value?
What are your skills, strengths, and talents?

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16. 2. Transition From Doing to Leading

17. — Lisa Walsh, VP, PepsiCo Sales
You have probably built success as a specialist who is adept at knowing your topic or your area of the business. It is one of the reasons you may have gotten promoted. But as you go higher, you will be valued for understanding the business and how various pieces of the business integrate into the whole.
— Lisa Walsh, VP, PepsiCo Sales

18. Transition from Doing to Leading
Doing Executing Subject matter expert Tactician Your success
Leading Envisioning Thought leader Strategist Team’s success

19. — Dona Munsch, VP Cloud Operations, NetApp
My ‘get ‘er done’ mentality—as the go-to person, and the only one who knew how to do certain things—got in my way of moving ahead. I couldn’t step out of my own role to take on new opportunities.
— Dona Munsch, VP Cloud Operations, NetApp

20. Your time portfolio:
Analyze your calendar
Take a look at the last month
Color code activities: are they strategic or tactical?
— Dona Munsch

21. What do you need to let go of? What will you do more of?
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What do you need to let go of?
What will you do more of?

22. 3. Take Career Risks

23. If you’re not taking risks in your career, you might actually be creating more risk for yourself.
— Valerie Oswalt, Vice President of Sales, West Area for Mondelēz International.

24. Take purposeful risks Reflect on your niche and your career goals.
Negotiate assignments that align with where you want to go next in your career.
Accept assignments that are linked to your passion, because you’ll make a bigger difference.
Be highly selective in what you take on, so that you’re not stretching yourself too thin.
Be bold.
— Angie Hemmelgarn, Chief HR Officer, Caritas

25. Be bold! Push yourself, and get comfortable being uncomfortable.
— Angie Hemmelgarn, Chief HR Officer, Claritas

26. 3 Types of Courage for Emerging Leaders
Identify your leadership niche
Transition from doing to leading
Take career risks

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28. Opportunity does not come gift-wrapped. You must take risks.
— Nina Bhatti, Founder and CEO of Kokko, Inc.