The Time is Now: Future Proofing Your HR Career Post-COVID

Session Time: Tuesday, February 9 | 9:10 AM – 10:10 AM (PT)

Speaker: Lisa Downs, President/Owner, New Aspect Coaching | LinkedIn

Session Description: Gartner's Future of Work Trends Post-COVID-19 report shares 9 trends for the new world of work post-pandemic, including moving from an emphasis on efficiency to resilience, an increase in organizational complexity, and the separation of critical skills from roles to work across role-specific boundaries. What are you doing to future proof your career to ensure you adapt to these and additional changes we're likely to see in the coming years? How prepared are you to upskill, re-skill, and take charge of your own career growth instead of everyone else's? Join career transition coach Lisa Downs as she shares with you strategies and tools to assess the current state of your career, envision what's next for you, identify where you may have career development gaps, and create a plan to move forward, whether looking to continue in traditional HR roles or transition onto an alternative career path. With the time and effort you dedicate supporting people and addressing organizational or client demands, it's critical to pay attention to your own career and have a plan in place that leads to a fulfilling future, however you define it. If 2020 showed us anything, it's that we're in a state of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) on overdrive and we need to be ready at all times to expect the unexpected.

The time is now to take charge of your career!

• Core Competency #1: Business Acumen

• Core Competency #2: Critical Evaluation

Takeaways: Participants will receive a Career Readiness Assessment against post-COVID career trends, a Career Vision Questionnaire, and a Career Pivot Action Plan template.

Speaker Bio:
Lisa Downs is the owner of New Aspect Coaching, specializing in career and retirement transition coaching. She focuses on supporting age 40+ professionals to figure out what’s next in their mid-late careers, and/or identify how they’ll spend their days in retirement or semi-retirement. Lisa's worked as a learning professional for EMC² (now part of Dell Technologies), The Boeing Company, PEMCO Insurance, T-Mobile, and spent six years in the accounting industry prior to going independent in her work in 2015. She’s an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF), a Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) through the Association for Talent Development (ATD), and a Certified Physician Development Coach.

Lisa is also certified in a number of assessment tools that she uses with her clients in the areas of identifying strengths, personality type, and work style. Lisa is a Past President of the Women Business Owners organization in Seattle having served as its President in 2018 and as Membership Chair in 2016-2017. She is also a former Leadership Coach with the Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking within the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, a former ATD board member, a past Chair of the ATD National Advisors for Chapters (NAC) and ATD Chapter Recognition Committee (CRC), and is a proud member of the LWHRA.