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How to Stay Motivated in Your Career During COVID

Carly Chase, Laura Castaing
August 3, 2020 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET Virtual Free to attend
How to Stay Motivated in Your Career During COVID

About this session

If you are having trouble focusing amongst everything happening in the world today, find yourself cleaning your closet to avoid sifting through LinkedIn for a hint at what you should be doing for a living, or just think it would be so be nice if you could just watch Billions in peace knowing your career planning was on track, you are not alone! We'll be sharing tips and tactics for how to stay reset and stay motivated throughout the rest of 2020. You’ll learn skills to stay motivated in even the most annoying of times.

You will walk away from this chat with:

  • Some of our favorite tips on how to keep the motivation up through the bad news
  • How to effectively network to avoid getting bogged down by endless connections that don't seem to get anywhere

Meet the speakers

Carly Chase

Carly Chase

Founder of Crabwalk

Carly Chase’s 15-year career has included stints at big institutions (e.g. Goldman Sachs, The City of New York under Mayor Michael Bloomberg) and NYC based startups (e.g. PivotDesk, SquareFoot). Currently, she serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. She runs programs including MIT’s summer accelerator based in NYC and coaches students across campus to be effective entrepreneurs and humans. She is also a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. You can read more about her on LinkedIn.
Laura Castaing

Laura Castaing

Laura Castaing is an executive coach based in NYC with 14 years of operations experience. She worked directly for founders and managed over 500 people at startups including Managed by Q and HowAboutWe. She has an MBA from Kellogg, an engineering degree from Duke, and three years of experience full-time coaching. She coaches founders and successful professionals facing work transitions. Her approach combines a high level of empathy, a deep understanding of business strategy and career development, and an action-oriented mindset. You can learn more about her on her website and on LinkedIn.

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