Benatti Leadership Development

Benatti Leadership Development Beth brings 20+ years experience to her role as a career/ leadership coach & development expert.

Beth Kennedy brings more than 20 years of experience to her role as a career/ leadership coach and team/career development expert. With an extensive background in career development, she can fully support leaders and other professionals as they assess their current skills to better execute their current roles.

It's here, it's here! 🎉 Today is our official launch day, and "ReThink Resilience" is now available on Amazon! 📘 This bo...
10/22/2024

It's here, it's here! 🎉 Today is our official launch day, and "ReThink Resilience" is now available on Amazon!

📘 This book features 99 actionable and practical suggestions for boosting resilience and the inspiring stories from 16 Resilience Champions.

🌟 My co-authors, Songmao (Ben) Zheng and Karthik Venkatakrishnan, and I are so excited to bring our diverse perspectives together to spark resilience for our friends, colleagues and readers across the globe.

Thank you in advance for supporting our resilience journey!

📖 Get your copy today: bit.ly/4eXhpDN

As I look back on 2023, I have two reflections to share with you:✨ I am reminded of the importance of focusing on what m...
12/27/2023

As I look back on 2023, I have two reflections to share with you:

✨ I am reminded of the importance of focusing on what matters most and the difference we make in other people’s lives. This year, I have been concerned about close friends and family with serious medical concerns, which has made me realize that life is short. I believe that making a difference in another person’s life is truly an important part of our integrity and is what real leadership is about.

✨ I often talk about resilience because I believe that it is essential for success. Resilience and success go hand in hand like a partnership. We can accomplish big goals and feel successful without getting burnt out or competing with others. Resilience is about moving forward without sacrificing our well-being and going down the burnout escalator. To be resilient, I have learned from incredible leaders that we need to focus on the five key anchors of resilience: well-being, self-awareness, connection, brand, and innovation.

Which anchor is most important for you to focus on in 2024 to enhance your success and resilience? Comment below.

Cheers to exciting opportunities, resilience and the year ahead!

May you be surrounded by the gift of friendship, the joys of family, and the spirit of love. Sending you my warmest wish...
12/21/2023

May you be surrounded by the gift of friendship, the joys of family, and the spirit of love.

Sending you my warmest wishes for a Happy 2024!

This time of year can be filled with joy but also exhaustion.We often do not have time to focus on our own professional ...
12/14/2023

This time of year can be filled with joy but also exhaustion.

We often do not have time to focus on our own professional branding like Santa does!

Santa’s professional brand evokes joy and is built around spreading cheer, celebrating, and bringing a spark of magic to children’s lives (and many adults, as well!)

Even though I get stressed out with holiday shopping, my intention is to still radiate my brand of resilience, leadership, and integrity.

In the sprit of the season, here are three lessons that we can learn from Santa about professional branding and how we can apply them to our own careers:

🎅🏻 Be consistent.

Santa has a consistent image, message, and personality that he maintains throughout the year. He does not change his appearance, his values, or his mission. He is always recognizable, reliable, and trustworthy. He also delivers on his promises and meets his deadlines. We can learn from Santa to be consistent with our own professional branding and to align our actions with our words.

🎅🏻 Be memorable.

Santa has a memorable name, logo, slogan, and story that he uses to differentiate himself from others. He also has a unique value proposition and a niche market that he serves. He knows his audience and what they want and need. He also uses humor, emotion, and storytelling to connect with his audience and to create memorable experiences. We can learn from Santa to be memorable with our own professional branding and to stand out from the crowd.

🎅🏻 Be generous.

Santa is generous with his time, his resources, and his gifts. He is always giving, sharing, and helping others. He also shows appreciation and gratitude to his team, his partners, and his customers. He also listens to feedback and adapts to changing needs and preferences. He also creates a community and a culture of generosity around him. We can learn from Santa to be generous with our own professional branding and to add value to others.

✨ What are some of the other lessons that you can learn from Santa about professional branding? What are some of the words that you would use to describe your professional brand? Share them in the comments below. I would love to hear from you.

12/08/2023

During this busy time of the year and as we get closer to kicking off 2024, assess your resilience and know where you fall in resilience to have the energy to be the most productive in your career and also align with your personal life.

✨ Take the Benatti Resilience Benchmark today and also receive a Resilience Roadmap: https://bethkennedy.com/benchmark-your-resilience/

This fall, I have been celebrating gratitude by featuring past leadership coaching clients who have been featured in my ...
11/30/2023

This fall, I have been celebrating gratitude by featuring past leadership coaching clients who have been featured in my book, "Career ReCharge: Five Strategies to Boost Resilience and Beat Burnout."

✨ I am grateful not only for the 5th anniversary of my first book, but I am thankful for past and present coaching clients who have supported my business for over 25 years. I still remember the day when I called my Dad to say I was starting my own business, and I was naming it Benatti! He would be proud to know that I also have a Benatti Resiliency Model in his honor that continues to prevent and reverse burnout.

✨ This week, I'm excited to share a testimonial from my leadership coaching client, Derek Blair. He now works in Munich, Germany as an Associate Director of Clinical Biomarkers at MorphoSys. It has truly been an honor to see Derek's career go global!

When asked which resilience habit has contributed to his career success, Derek shared:

"I have been fortunate to have worked with Beth for many years, initially in group workshops and as my career advanced she became my leadership coach. Those initial workshops gave me some of the basics, such as understanding my personality type and how that impacts my work style and how I interact with those around me. This is something that I am still cognizant of today, for example it really helps to understand how teams' function when you join a new team or a new company.

However, one of the most important resiliency habits is to focus on your own well-being. It's all too easy to let your 'me' time slip off your plate, but that is not a sustainable approach. I tried a number of different things, and not everything worked for me, for example I haven't yet learned the skill to meditate in the most recognized way. But I take care of myself by running, walking, or hiking in nature. These help me feel grounded and reinvigorate me, and while running or hiking, I take time to fully immerse myself in the surroundings and pay attention to all the little details, allowing myself to be awed, sometimes by the ordinary."

Congratulations Derek and thanks for sharing your insight on resilience leading to career success!

✨ Please share with us the well-being strategies you use during this hectic time of the year. Meditation or mindfulness is not for everyone but what small steps do you take to ReCharge? Comment below.

When I first began coaching Elliot Schwartz, he was a Program Engineer in Computer Aided Engineering at the Gillette Com...
11/01/2023

When I first began coaching Elliot Schwartz, he was a Program Engineer in Computer Aided Engineering at the Gillette Company and now he is a Data Analytics Consultant for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. I am grateful that I continue to have an opportunity to work with Elliot and be part of his Resiliency journey and see his career soar!

Elliot and his husband, Byron, were both featured in "Career ReCharge." Elliot shares how the book and the Benatti Resiliency Model has impacted him over the past five years below:

"In my last role before my Career Recharge, I was not aware of the 5 anchors of resilience or resilience in general. Because I did not focus sufficiently on resilience, when I found myself in an untenable job situation, I experienced burnout. After semi-retiring and un-semi-retiring by deciding to work full-time in a different career, I want to ensure that my work contributes to my life, my well-being, and my relationship with my husband."

When asked what advice he would you give to someone who wants to recharge their career and life, he shared the following steps:

1️⃣ Talk to and consider working with an executive and/or career coaching professional like Beth Kennedy

2️⃣ Assess your levels of resilience in the 5 anchors, or key areas (Well-being, Self-awareness, Brand, Connection, Innovation) Take Beth's Resilience Benchmark at www.bethkennedy.com

3️⃣ Develop and implement a plan to improve your level(s) of resilience in one of more areas that you would like to bolster.

4️⃣ Write down the list of changes to your career and life that you are considering.

5️⃣ Assess your finances (on your own, with your partner, and/or with your financial advisor) to understand the financial impacts of possible career changes on you and others.

6️⃣ Assess the impacts of possible career changes on your life and the lives of your loved ones and friends.

7️⃣ Decide how you want to proceed.

"As I reflect on the impact the book has had on my career over the past five years, it's provided me an opportunity to assess and express my experiences and feelings associated with my former career and my last role. It was particularly valuable to think about the things that were in my control and the things that were not in my control in the circumstances that led to my experience of burnout. While recognizing the things that were in my control, I was able to evaluate what I could have done differently. Identifying the things that were not in my control was the start of letting those things go and recognizing warning signs in any future employment situations. The Benatti Resiliency Model provided a means of breaking down, understanding, and analyzing why I experienced burnout and what I needed to do to prevent it in the future."

Thank you, Elliot, and cheers to recharge!

I am honored to spotlight another leadership coaching client who was featured in Career ReCharge! Ajeeta Dash was a Dire...
10/24/2023

I am honored to spotlight another leadership coaching client who was featured in Career ReCharge! Ajeeta Dash was a Director, Translational Medicine Lead at Takeda when I coached her and now, she is a Senior Director, Global Program Leader at Takeda. Congratulations Ajeeta and thank you for sharing why you continue to focus on resilience below!

"We spend a significant amount of our time working, but that is not all that we do. However, our experience at work sometimes carries over into other aspects of our lives.

I work in the pharmaceutical industry where it is well known that for every successful drug there are several that fall by the wayside. Hence it is important to celebrate the successes and also be able to weather the failures such that it doesn’t lead to burn-out and impact our non-work lives.

For me this is where resilience comes in, the ability to bounce back from challenging situations. Taking time for active rest, by connecting with family and friends, with my dog, with my hobbies, making time to be in nature, helps me show up as the best version of myself!"

🌟 Thank you, Ajeeta!

Surprise! 🌟 To celebrate five years of boosting resilience, beating burnout and recharging careers, get your copy of "Ca...
10/17/2023

Surprise!

🌟 To celebrate five years of boosting resilience, beating burnout and recharging careers, get your copy of "Career ReCharge" for the special price of $9.99 now through October 31st. 🌟

Order yours today: https://a.co/d/aUzAGtR

I met Todd Rogers in my Building Your Brand Training that I facilitated at his organization in Deerfield, Il in 2017 and...
10/11/2023

I met Todd Rogers in my Building Your Brand Training that I facilitated at his organization in Deerfield, Il in 2017 and his brand has continued to thrive.

Todd, a Sr. Manager, Capabilities and Operational Excellence, US Medical Field at Takeda, was featured in "Career ReCharge" and shares how the book, our partnership and the Benatti Resiliency Model has impacted him over the past five years below:

"My connection with Beth's model actually started in a workshop she ran at my company in 2017 before the book was published. The focus of the workshop was 'Building Your Internal Brand' and included other activities tied to the pillars of the Re-Charge model. Two activities that were instrumental in putting me on a new path were the Career Anchors inventory and the TypeCoach inventory which connected to the Self-Awareness Pillar.

It was through the Career Anchors inventory and the conversations Beth facilitated that I began to become more aware of my instinctual motivators for how I was driven to contribute on a team or in an organization. I realized I was drawn to situations where I had autonomy or Independence to work and where I could grow and flex a toolbox of technical skills. I also found I was particularly motivated by projects that had social impact or supported the purpose of an organization. Another result of participating in the workshop was that I became inspired by Beth's work re-energizing organizations by helping folks connect the dots in their career journeys.

As a result, I enrolled in a master's program in organizational science (which I completed in 2019). I also completed a year-long certification program in 2020 in Narrative coaching techniques and about that time, I landed a new role in my organization where I am connected with the learning and development function and the Organizational excellence function. The new role allows me to facilitate conversations with stakeholders around Mission Measurement, Team Effectiveness, and mindset shifting through storytelling culture with the goal of better teaming norms, processes, systems and outcomes in our organization.

It has really been a transformational 5 years."

How have you been focusing on career recharge over the past five years? Celebrate with us throughout this month and comment below or email me at [email protected].

10/05/2023

Time has flown! This month marks the fifth anniversary of my first book, "Career Recharge: Five Strategies to Boost Resilience and Beat Burnout!"

I've learned countless, incredible things over the past five years. Here are two:

🌟 Pandemic or not, resilience is a key leadership competency for all of us.

🌟 Connection is a resiliency anchor.

Stay tuned throughout this October as I share resiliency success stories from my clients featured in my book over the past five years and more.

Thanks to this amazing network for your continued support! Cheers to career recharge!

I'm grateful that I get to work with the most wonderful clients! ✨If you're interested in learning more about leadership...
09/06/2023

I'm grateful that I get to work with the most wonderful clients! ✨

If you're interested in learning more about leadership coaching and sparking your resilience journey, you can find more information here: https://bethkennedy.com/leadership-coaching/

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