About Dawn Christman
Dawn is a human capital executive with expertise spanning 25 years in talent acquisition, talent operations, human resources, and coaching space across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
Building and leading international teams of 60+, Dawn focuses on the strengths and opportunities of talent to help propel businesses forward, regardless of their physical location. Having led both functions and clients within start-up, publicly traded and private equity owned environments – she quickly recognizes opportunities to remove obstacles and provide bottom line impact.
Always intrigued by challenge, she’s had the opportunity to complete needs assessments across sales, operations, human resources, talent acquisition, IT, HRIS, finance, legal, risk and compliance, marketing and branding. Ultimately, results are used to build standard global policies and processes, geared toward impacting internal EVP and external brand – regardless of industry.
Throughout her career, she has further enhanced her professional and personal career via Board. Historically sitting on the Board of the Twin Cities Chapter of the National Society of Hispanic MBA’s offered the opportunity to lead their major fundraising gala, facilitate sponsor events and develop marketing activities.
She is now leading the Executive Advisory Board for Jobs for Humanity – focusing on maximizing partnership with the CEO and several C – Suite leaders all focused on the growth and development of the business.
Her Board work is a natural complement to her humancentric leadership style - driven by the personal belief that people are capable of far more than they realize. Maximizing talent in any space is simply a matter of identifying and driving initiatives together, with humility and the goal to succeed.
Episode Notes
00:00 Introduction
05:16 Positioning Yourself for New Opportunities
08:17 Research and Networking for Career Growth
16:57 Respect and Career Progression
19:31 Dealing with Job Search Frustration
20:06 Breaking Out of Isolation
20:54 Reinventing Yourself Professionally
21:23 Recognizing Your Value
23:53 Considering Leaving Your Job
27:19 Handling Job Loss Emotionally
30:31 Negotiating Severance Packages
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