Navigating Wisdom from the Purple Parachute ~ with Paula Brand

Navigating Wisdom from the Purple Parachute

• Want to change jobs, but you’re not sure how to do it?
• Do you need help understanding the best way to manage your career?
• Are you unsure of how to get to the next step in your career?
• Do you need to change your career direction?
• Is a job change being forced upon you?

If you have been looking for answers to any of those questions, this may be a great session for you.

During this interactive session, Paula Brand, award-winning career expert and author of the Purple Parachute, will use the A.S.T.E.R. Career Model to help you understand and effectively transition through the natural cycles of careers and how to maximize yourself at each point. Even if your career is going along smoothly, every professional can benefit from implementing these proven ideas..

About the Speaker

Paula Battalia Brand founded Brand Career Management (BCM) to help professionals strategically manage their careers, apply effective job search tactics and leverage
LinkedIn to secure their best career options with ease. Her personal passion is empowering mid-career to executive women to reach the next step in their career journey, so she wrote The Purple Parachute to help women make smoother career transitions.

Besides working with individuals, she also enjoys speaking to groups on LinkedIn, Figuring Out Your Next Career Move and Salary Negotiation. Paula speaks at career industry conferences and contract career advising assignments for organizations, including the World Bank Group, Caribbean Development Bank, NIH/NIAID, John Hopkins University SAIS program, the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative, Women’s Society of CyberJutsu and the National Association of Social Workers.