Mitigating AI Hiring Hurdles
with Christie Brown
The Secret to Success: Self-Advocacy and Self-Care
Ericka Spradley
December 11, 2025 01:00 PM EST
December 11, 2025 01:00 PM EST
Virtual
Get ready to close out the year and start 2026 right with this special conversation with LinkedIn Top Interviewing Voice and renowned Career Management Strategist Ericka Spradley. With over a decade of experience as a leader, entrepreneur, and coach, Ericka has helped countless women elevate their careers through mentorship, confidence-building, and strategic interviewing skills that increase both opportunity and salary. She’ll share the practices and mindsets that have enabled more than 80% of her clients to secure their desired roles and design pathways to promotion. Questions welcome!
Key Takeaways
- How self-advocacy directly impacts confidence, career mobility, and earning potential.
- Strategies for practicing self-care that strengthen both personal well-being and professional performance.
- Proven interviewing and communication techniques to negotiate salary and secure desired roles.
- Insights on navigating workplace challenges with clarity, confidence, and intention.
- Ways leaders and organizations can better support women through mentorship, development resources, and structured advancement pathways.
Meet The Speaker
Ericka Spradley
*LinkedIn Top Interviewing Voice* Global Career Management Strategist & Coach helping women get promoted, get paid and win
Recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Interviewing Voice, Ericka Spradley is a Career Management Strategist and Coach who is deeply committed to supporting women in their pursuit of success by offering: mentorship, guidance, and expertise that helps them navigate the challenges they face in the workplace. Not only does she equip women to excel at work and know their worth, she aims to provide a powerful platform that fosters: career advancement, leadership, growth, confidence, work-life balance, and self-advocacy among professional women.
Ericka brings 10+ years as a leader, entrepreneur and coach whose published content can be found on Forbes.com, Black Enterprise.com and Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global platform. She also positions women to excel at work as well as know their worth by leveraging interviewing skills to increase their salary. This notion has not only resulted in at least 80% of her clients securing their desired role; but has also allowed clients to experience mobility by designing their path to promotion. In addition, Ericka partners with employers via their Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and Business Resource Groups (BRGs) to help them better develop, promote and retain women.
To explore Ericka’s self-paced courses and complimentary resources, visit ConfidentCareerWoman.com
