Traction: Navigating the Ins and Outs and Ups and Downs of Career Cycles

The old concept of lifetime employment is virtually extinct.  Careers don’t travel in straight lines as often as they used to and we constantly have to reinvent ourselves. Thus, we have to engage increasingly in proactive management of all stages of Career Cycles and, especially, the beginning and ending of each job, whether advancing or moving within a company or moving to another company. Many of these considerations similarly apply to those in transition.

The Wharton Club of New Jersey and the Penn Club of Metro New Jersey invite you to this joint Club meeting for an interactive program, presented by George Bradt, a recognized authority on executive onboarding and transition acceleration, and Chuck Forgang, an experienced Executive Employment and Corporate attorney.  Messrs. Bradt and Forgang will focus on certain critical junctures in a professional’s life, in particular joining, advancing in, and leaving jobs and companies.  Our speakers believe it’s about “taking control” of these events to the extent possible, when strategizing these moves in advance and endeavoring to set forth a blueprint for one’s own professional future.  This discussion will be of interest to both those currently employed and those in transition, and will focus on:  

• THE BEGINNING OF THE END of the job you’re in – for better or worse.
• ENDING WELL on the way out of one job – to set yourself up for success in the next.
• THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING and getting a head start in a new job.
• BEGINNING WELL in a new job, managing the message, and helping others deliver.

Speaker Biographies:

George Bradt has a unique perspective on transformational leadership based on his combined senior line management and consulting experience.  After his education at Harvard and Wharton, George progressed through sales, marketing and general management roles around the world at Fortune 500 companies including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and then J.D. Power and Associates as chief executive of its Power Information Network spin off.  Now he is a Principal of The CEO Connection and Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, the executive onboarding and transition acceleration group he founded in 2002.  Since then, George and PrimeGenesis have reduced the risk of failure fourfold for executives they have worked with - from 40% to 10% - based on their own team, tools and perspective on delivering better results faster.  George is the author of three books on Onboarding and two on parenting (“Back-To-School Chats”).  203.323.8501; gbradt@primegenesis.com; www.primegenesis.com.