Personal Development – Katherine Ann Byam

Episode 31 - Embracing Only on Do What Matters

031 Embracing Only

Olivia has served as a HR leader for Stryker since June 2012 and during this time she has successfully supported several large sales organisations, facilitated cross functional synergies, implemented DE&I strategies, developed onboarding programs, facilitated integrations and assisted with the development of many commercial leaders. Before joining Stryker Olivia retired from the US Coast Guard in 2012. Most notably in 2009 Olivia made Coast Guard history as she became one of two first African American Engineer officers to serve on a “major” cutter. Olivia is also the co-host of the Embracing Only podcast and is working on a book titled Only; a corporate survival guide.

Post author:Katherine Ann Byam
Post published:2 January 2023
Reading time:31 mins read
Post category:Coaching Advice Corporate Executives

The Future of Work and Talent - Do What Matters - Career and Leadership on Purpose

029 Future of Work and Talent

In this episode, we are going to be discussing future falent with an old friend of mine, Harry. It was such a pleasure to reconnect! Harry Vargas is a dynamic HR leader and change agent. He’s passionate about driving transformation for capacity building and growth, through commercially relevant and pragmatic organizational and talent strategies. He has 20 Years of multi-market & cultural experience, successfully leading and developing diverse teams at local, regional and global levels. Harry joined Microsoft in 2020, to lead HR and the culture & people transformational agenda, for the growing regional hub based in Costa Rica, serving LATAM and the US. Harry is Costa Rican and grew up in Colombia.

Post author:Katherine Ann Byam
Post published:1 December 2022
Reading time:22 mins read
Post category:Corporate Executives

Women in Consulting on Do What Matters - Careers

027 Women in Tech

Having a Master's in Public Administration, science and public policy, Nadine Bender Branham, focused early on towards the new economy with her first job at EB. After that she launched the online sales channel of a camera specialist before kicking off her career at Amazon Germany, which at the time was very much an infant state. Over the years in Amazon retail, she worked in many roles, supported and launched various businesses before in late 2020, she took on an additional opportunity in AWS to run the demand generation business for DACH and beyond

Post author:Katherine Ann Byam
Post published:1 December 2022
Reading time:2 mins read
Post category:Corporate Executives

My Career Journal - Do What Matters, Career and Leadership on Purpose

026 My Career Journal Pt 5 Social Credible Responsible

Social, credible and responsible. What have I got to offer the world, and how do I tie in my offer with all that I want to advocate for and to be, not just to do? Before the pandemic, and the massive mobilisation of finance around ESG topics, and George Floyd and the global focus on DEI that came from that, these 3 words, being social, credible and responsible, were not necessarily thought about in the same breath for small businesses, and for individuals. Career advice would centre around building a personal and or professional brand that stands out, based on what your recruiters are interested in. Today, Gen Z, and some of us in our 40s if I’m being honest are tearing up the rule book on tailoring our lives and CVs to be what companies want, and focusing more on what we want, then choosing the company that supports our interests most closely. Tune into this episode as we get into the personal and professional brand conversation, and how I’ve been experiencing this part of my career journey in the last few months.

Post author:Katherine Ann Byam
Post published:1 December 2022
Reading time:8 mins read
Post category:My Career Journal

Women in Consulting on Do What Matters

025 Women in Consulting

Kysha Gibson is a prominent and experienced management consultant specialising in the telecommunications, media and technology sector. She sits on Accenture’s Strategy & Consulting UKI Management Board and leads the Analyst Consulting Group (ACG) - the next generation of Strategy & Consulting talent for the UKI. She is deeply passionate about shaping future talent and strongly believes that the ACG (~900 employees) will be the key source of the next generation of Accenture and Industry leadership.

Post author:Katherine Ann Byam
Post published:1 December 2022
Reading time:3 mins read
Post category:Corporate Executives

My Career Journal Part 4 - Addressing the Ego

024 My Career Journal 4 Addressing the Ego

et out of your own way. There has been considerable research done on this idea of the ego; that sense of self esteem and self importance that our individualistic education has given us. I’ve found entrepreneurship to be the greatest challenge to an inflated ego I’ve ever encountered in my life; it has by force humbled me. I was only as good as my greatest weakness; until I started outsourcing my weaknesses.

Post author:Katherine Ann Byam
Post published:21 November 2022
Reading time:9 mins read
Post category:My Career Journal

Episode 22 - Katherine Ann Byam - Do What Matters The Career and Leadership on Purpose Podcast

022 Career Journal Part 3 Entrepreneurial Spirit

Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. It’s a bit like giving birth, or falling in love for the first time. You absolutely cannot forget it, and the experience changes you, imprints on you, and you can never fully turn your back on it ever again. In this episode I discuss the pros and cons of returning to employment after 4 years as an entrepreneur.

Post author:Katherine Ann Byam
Post published:19 October 2022
Reading time:7 mins read
Post category:My Career Journal

My Career Journal Part 2 - Reconciling Success and Failure

020 My Career Journal Part 2 – Reconciling Success and Failure

Why is the idea of getting back into employment so taboo for entrepreneurs? And why do friends and family have so much riding on binary outcomes of failure and success? If you want to see into the window of the souls of the people around you, become an entrepreneur. Let’s dig into this a bit, as I believe it affects everyone, and prevents people from not starting great ideas, and also not knowing when to stop an idea not worth developing further.

Post author:Katherine Ann Byam
Post published:9 October 2022
Reading time:10 mins read
Post category:My Career Journal

Do What Matters - the book

012 Do What Matters The Book

“This book is a revelation in so many ways that I cannot enumerate. Each chapter had me go to places I hadn’t considered going; to my experiences, my biases, my joys, and my gifts foremost among them! This book doesn’t just recommend what I should consider in my journey to building a net – positive life, it puts the steering wheel in my hand, with a road map and tangible actions to plot out what’s meaningful to me! I have lengthy notes. I highly recommend it!”