CTN Downtown: Your Key to Success: Leadership Credibility

Learn how 5 key factors influence your reputation as a credible leader.

Program Overview: As an executive coach, Jill Hickman sees a common thread that runs through her clients’ performance: they are super achievers, experts in their skilled professions, highly degreed, and passionate about their field of study. How could there be a problem with this profile? Typically, the failure to climb the ladder of leadership success is NOT the lack of knowledge or expertise in a field of study. 

Learning Outcomes: Sharing their insights from leadership consulting, facilitation and coaching, Jill & Cara describe the 5 key behaviors that impact credibility and potential advancement, at every leadership level. Leave the meeting with a set of individual action steps to enhance your own leadership development and tips for steering others in your company clear of career derailment.

Speakers:  Jill & Cara are developers and facilitators of Jill Hickman Companies Signature Service™ and Signature Leadership™ curriculums, licensing independent consultants and trainers as Authorized Partners and certifying corporate trainers to deliver these curriculums to their own employees.  Jill is President of Jill Hickman Companies and founded the company in 1998. Jill’s extensive corporate background of over 20 years spanned both public and private sectors, from educational institutions to Fortune 500 companies, including those in petrochemical, healthcare, retail, and business services. Coupled with an entrepreneurial spirit and global company of her own, Jill provides the leadership acumen needed for success in today’s business world. 

Cara Woolet, Vice President of Client Solutions, joined the firm in August 2011 after gaining extensive experience in community development, marketing, branding, and graphic design with the Houston Texans. With keen insight, Cara assesses client needs and ensures understanding of client goals through client consultations. Cara is a certified trainer of Blanchard’s Situational Leadership and Situational Self Leadership programs bringing high-energy to her facilitation and delivering results that exceed client expectations and create exceptional learning experiences.