How to Get the Career and Life You Really Want

Our evening with Mary Anne Gale was a remarkable and inspiring event with the first woman Plant Manager with P&G, in addition to breaking the glass ceiling or the gender gap as the first female appointed to various senior executive positions around the world.  Mary Anne came to China in the mid 2000’s where she stayed until her retirement in 2008.  Even though she retired from P&G, she embarked on a second career as a writer, career coach, and speaker, helping women to develop their career potential. 

Mary Anne shared with us her personal experience in getting what she wanted out of her career and running for the various offices during the 35 years when she was with P&G.  She disputed the various myths of a woman developing a career in the corporate world.  

Rather than wait for the promotion or movement to come to us in our career that we think we deserve, after delivering the results, putting in hard work and good performance, which is just the basics for a successful career, we have to run a campaign and actively cover the “politics” in running for the office that we want.  

Building alliances, speaking out on what we want or the specific position we think we are qualified for, running for that office, building a campaign to “get the votes,” getting exposure to the “voters” or decision makers in the corporate world for our career development.   

The evening was filled with wisdoms and life long experiences in what she has learned in building her career, just like what she covered in her book “Running For Office: Getting yourself elected to the career you really want”.

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Venue: Tuesday, 1st March 2011, 18:30 - 20:30
Jianguo Hotel

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