How to Translate Your Parenting Skills to Professional Skills
Are you a parent returning to work after taking time off?
Contrary to popular belief, parenthood is actually the perfect training ground for the workplace, yet parents often overlook – or don’t showcase – the skills they have gained when communicating their value.
Amri Kibbler
Amri is a mom of two and the Co-Founder & Chief Community Officer of HeyMama, a social and professional network that provides community, connections, tools and resources for working moms.
Previously, she spent more than 10 years as an editor and stylist creating content for major women’s publications including Glamour Magazine and Cosmopolitan.
Her passion is helping mothers to find fulfillment at work and at home. HeyMama developed the Motherhood on the Resume® campaign to address the stigmas, bias and motherhood penalty that women face when growing both a career and a family.
Join this conversation with Amri Kibbler, Co-Founder and Chief Community Officer at HeyMama, as she dives deeper into how to position yourself for a successful job search as a parent. During this chat, you’ll learn how to put your real-life parenting experiences on your resume, and talk about them with confidence in an interview that will help land you that job.
During this chat, we’ll talk about:
Naming the transferable skills parenthood cultivates
Translating those skills to the workplace
Communicating those skills on your resume and in an interview
How to Develop and Leverage Communication Skills to Grow in Your Career
Language is power.
We see how pop culture can affect entire societies, how social media can influence people worldwide, or how a speech can change the course of history.
On the other hand, a simple text message can alter a relationship, a short email exchange can impact our growth at work, and untimely silence can feel unbearable.
Communication is a critical skill that impacts our lives and careers. So why do so many of us struggle to use it effectively?
Tenable’s Chief Communications Officer, Michela Stribling, learned that if she never vocalized her needs and aspirations in the workplace, she wasn’t going to access growth and development opportunities.
Michela wants to help you identify the ways that you can improve upon your current communication skills to propel your professional development.
In this chat, you will learn:
Identifying career goals and advocating for yourself in the workplace
The powerful impact of advocating for growth
How compelling storytelling can make you a better leader
Practical tips for improving your communication skills
Michela Stribling
Michela Stribling, Tenable's Chief Communications Officer, has extensive experience in corporate marketing and was instrumental in the company's IPO in July 2018.
A deft storyteller, she has worked for some of the world’s most respected brands, including Google (where she was part of the IPO team), Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
Before joining Tenable in 2017, she developed one of the most successful corporate newsrooms for IBM and established a groundbreaking partnership with TED.
The Value of Professional Development
Professional development can fuel your career growth and it can come in many forms, from skill advancement courses to professional networking opportunities.
Cassie Yettru
Cassie is the General Manager at WISE (a division of CloserIQ), a global community focused on empowering women.
A career expert in the world of startups and software, she spent years specializing in sales recruiting at CloserIQ as a talent advisor and manager.
Under her leadership, WISE has launched impactful programming for mentorship, networking, professional development, and corporate solutions for employee engagement and branding.
Cassie Yettru, General Manager at WISE, oversees professional development programming that hundreds of women use to achieve their career goals every year. Join this chat as Cassie breaks down how you can own and propel your professional development.
In this chat, you’ll learn:
Why professional development is so important for career success and fulfillment
How to decide what skills to focus on in your career
The value of continuous learning, networking, and mentorship
You’ve Got Skills (They’re Multiplying) - a conversation with Skillcrush founder Adda Birnir on the new skill based economy
Did you know that by 2030, 90% of the world’s population will be diving into new skills, sparking 12 million career transitions? Don’t let the wave of change catch you off guard—now’s the time to master the skills shaping the future of work! Join us for a dynamic conversation with Adda Birnier, the visionary founder of Skillcrush. Skillcrush, recently acquired by PowerToFly, is not just an online coding and design school—it’s a game-changer. With over 20,000 students empowered through mentor-led, flexible courses in AI, coding, design, and beyond, Adda will delve into the art of tech upskilling. Get ready to explore how mastering new tech skills isn’t just a choice—it’s your ticket to thriving in the digital age!
Adda Birnir (She/Her)
Before founding Skillcrush over ten years ago, Adda ran a web design and development company that built sites for media clients such as The New York Times, ProPublica, the Manhattan Neighborhood Network and MTV. She has been named one of the "20 Women to Watch in Media'' by the Columbia Journalism Review, one of the "30 Most Important Women in Tech" by Business Insider, and has been featured on the BBC, PBS, Fast Company, and Mashable. And she was appointed by former Mayor Bill DeBlasio to the New York City Workforce Development board. Adda is a graduate of Yale University and calls NYC home. When not growing or teaching at Skillcrush, she enjoys exploring her home borough of Queens and hanging out with her husband and two sons.