In today's episode of ‘Your Business Greatness,’ host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach,” speaks with guest Ingrid Naranjo, an Investment Banker Executive with two decades of experience working across four continents. She's passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, education, and non-profit work to improve communities.
- Ingrid shares her experience and insights on her professional journey as a woman, immigrant, and on religious diversity.Ingrid shares her insights on taking risks.” You need to be brave, face your fears, and go to the unknown to reach your destinations.” She thought she needed to try something new as she had nothing to lose, and she could always return.
- Ingrid utilized her time during the pandemic by pursuing almost all the courses including Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Diplomacy, and so on through Coursera. She continues to use Coursera regularly because she believes that you find great material there. She also trained herself in ESG (Environmental Social & Governance) with the School of Pennsylvania.
- Ingrid’s happiest time was in New York at the Office of Children's Services. Although the salary was terrible, the conditions were not that great where you have so many cases related to children's lives that you were trying to save, and some of them died at the hands of the parents and they did not remove the custody. During the pandemic, she said that she will go back to foundations.
Words of wisdom: Work with a professional executive coach. If you are driven or if you want to succeed, or if you want to be in a ‘C’ Suite position, what you need is to get a coach and learn how to deal with the stress, your past, coworkers, etc. Because each of us comes with baggage that others may not understand.
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