Erica Sosna
Future of work expert and Author of The Career Equation
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Erica Sosna
Biography
The world of work is undergoing a revolution. It’s got personal. Your people expect you to take a close interest in their unique talent, drivers and aspirations. If they don’t feel they are growing towards their goals in your business, they vote with their feet.
We will spend 80000 hours at work. Yet most of us have never learned how to discern what the work would really best suit our capabilities. Without the ability to get under the skin of your people, you risk them leaving for competitors where they feel there is a better fit.
When we have the tools to engage in powerful dialogue, we can use career conversations as a powerful lever for retention and connection. If you don’t talk to your people and get to know their career goals, you can bet the competition will.
Erica Sosna is an award-winning speaker on career design and the future focussed workplace. Her powerful and practical Career Equation Method has become the go-to career design model for clients such as Amazon, Capital One and AXA. Her practical, engaging and can-do storytelling style makes it easy for people experts to take tangible takeaways from her keynotes and turn their aspirations of an engaged workforce into reality.
Her Career Equation is recognised by the CEO of Savills as “Exceptionally swift and effective, simple to learn, share and use with talent at all stages of their career.” Amazon’s Developers rated her recent keynote in the top 3 over 300 speakers.
Erica is the founder of Career Matters, a boutique consultancy that empowers employers in top firms to retain the best and equip talent to own and drive their career through powerful career conversations. Her unique Career Equation has become the go to model for Career Conversations at all levels, driving retention and engagement for CEO’s, high flyers and accelerated diversity schemes worldwide.
Her tools and insights capture and invigorate audiences from the USA, across mainland Europe, the Middle East and Australia. Her career coaching training is accredited by the International Coaching Federation.
Erica Sosna is a very experienced and popular virtual speaker and has an excellent reputation for delivering high energy, high impact keynotes at a distance. Her practical keynotes have been enjoyed by Total Jobs, Santander, Puig, The Emirati Government, Compare the Market, SS&C, Walmart, Flutter, Amazon, Mastercard and many more.
Erica Sosna
Featured Videos
Erica Sosna
Featured Keynote Programs
The Career Equation
Make Career Dialogue Your Competitive Advantage
The Great Resignation and the war for talent made it incredibly hard to secure and retain key people. Pressure on candidates is pushing up wage inflation across a huge range of industries. How do you become the company no one wants to leave and the leader everyone wants to work for? Getting under the skin of how your people and your candidates define success helps you create a feeling of genuine intimacy and solidarity and gives you a red flag warning for anyone being tempted by an external offer. Let me show you how to engage both prospective talent and be their employer of choice, as well as holding on to your very best people.
The Job For Life Is Dead…It’s All About Life’s Work
With the average tenure in role falling to just two years, the rise of AI obliterating existing professional career paths and Gen Z refusing to accept any environments that jeopardise their wellbeing, where are we in the search for the optimum high performing workplace? As a leader, it is your responsibility to create and nurture an environment in which everyone can thrive. This means policies, processes, politics and powerful conversations need to be reviewed for fit with the current work culture. Aspirations and definitions of success at work need to be understood on a personalised case-by-case basis. How do you do this when you have a business to run? The Career Equation model has been used at scale by some of the worlds’ best firms. It quickly taps into the aspiration and unique identity of each member of the business, giving key insight on the talent pipeline, flight risks and unrealized potential. You’ll learn how to use this framework to your competitive advantage and hear stories of success from firms as diverse as Capital One, Thales, Savills and Nomura.
Mastering Career Conversations
A Catalyst for Tech Success
In this talk, Erica will cover the following:
– Importance of effective career conversations in the tech industry.
– Practical tips and techniques for conducting impactful career conversations.
– Real-world success stories that demonstrate the impact of having career conversations on professional growth.
Erica Sosna
Featured Books
Your Life Plan: How to set yourself on the right path and take charge of your life
by Erica Sosna
Meet the challenges of life and master your future
Do you ever feel like you’re just floating through life with a lack of direction? Or get that nagging feeling that things could be better? Then it’s time you thought about your life plan.
Our lives can be thought of as stories – as narratives and adventures – and nearly all classic stories share certain universal characteristics. Our lives should be seen as a hero’s journey, a quest filled with challenges, turbulence and adventure.
By appreciating this pattern, and understanding where you are on your own personal journey, you’ll get the perspective needed to write your own life story and set yourself on the right path.
Be the hero of your own life
In Your Life Plan, Erica Sosna shows you how to choose and live a life that is truly meaningful, exciting and adventurous. Having a life project – a dream or goal that feels like a real challenge, can give you focus, energy and purpose.
This book offers practical solutions and guidance for dealing with difficult personal challenges and becoming the victorious hero who achieves happiness and fulfilment.
Go. Stand for something. Take up the charge and move into a purposeful and positive future.
The Career Equation: Coaching a Culture of Career Conversations
by Erica Sosna
The Career Equation® allows coaches and talent professionals to offer their clients and staff the clarity to enable them to take meaningful action. Whether it is to commit fully to the work they are doing, to make a lateral move within their existing firm, or to try something completely new, the Equation addresses the self-knowledge and self-management needed for them to own their careers. We all have unique talents and skills and the Equation can help people find their place in the world of work. The reader will learn how to:
•Make use of The Career Equation®
•Create a career design
•Prepare their clients for a career conversation
•Help their clients overcome mental barriers
This book will change the way coaches, mentors, career advisors and performance professionals support their clients to achieve maximum satisfaction from their work.
“The Career Equation is exceptionally swift and effective, simple to learn, share and use with talent at all stages of their career.”
James Sparrow, Chief Executive Officer EMEA at Savills
“The Career Equation is must-read text for parents, personal tutors, HR managers, team leaders, careers advisers and coaches. An easy guide for importance career conversations in our ever-changing environment.”
Dr Helen Smith, Faculty Head of Coaching and Mentoring for Business and Law, Department of People and Performance
“This book is a great resource for career professionals, offering tools and ideas that get to the heart of what we mean by career success.”
John Lees, Author of How to Get A Job You Love
“This book helps to discover the simple and effective model that has enabled me to have valuable career conversations, and more importantly, see the positive results when individuals are making the choices aligned to their strengths and passions.”
Aneta Jajkowksa, People & Organisation Partner / Your Career Plan Accredited Coach
Erica Sosna is a career consultant expert, a TEDx Speaker, founder of Career Matters and bestselling author of Your Life Plan. Erica’s work has transformed the career direction and aspirations of professionals all over the world. Her company, Career Matters, accredits professional coaches in her Career Equation method.