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CanWIT BC January Breakfast Club

CanWIT BC Chapter [1]BC’s [1]CanWIT chapter [1] invites you to come and hear from Katie Bennett, an executive leadership and career coach who will host an interactive session titled Accelerate Your Career – Leveraging Your Talents In 2014 And Beyond [2], which is designed to challenge you to think about your own personal “hedgehog concept”. The idea of The Hedgehog Concept comes from the work of Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last, among others. Your Hedgehog concept is the intersection of three key ideas:

Expect to walk away from this breakfast with specific insights into what you can do to propel your career with your talents and some specific action items to get you there.

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Katie Bennett runs her own coaching business, Double Black Diamond Coaching [4] and she is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation, has completed certification with The Coaches Training Institute and has an honours degree in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.

As a coach, Katie has worked with over a hundred Fortune 100 leaders, has coached presidents and company owners, entrepreneurs and managers at all levels. Katie’s clients have worked in IT, Big Pharma, banking, architecture, financial services and real estate development, to name a few. For the past few years, Katie has worked extensively with Long View Systems, a rapidly growing IT outsourcing company based in Calgary, to develop their leaders and build powerful teams, where they were awarded The Prism Coaching Award by the International Coach Federation.

Katie has also been writing both leadership and career related articles for the Globe and Mail newspaper and has been published over 40 times. Prior to coaching, Katie spent 11 years as an advertising executive in both Toronto and Vancouver, rising to the senior management position of Group Account Director, overseeing some of the world’s largest brands, including Pepsi, Moosehead Breweries, Quaker Cereals, Duracell Batteries, BC Hydro and The World Wildlife Fund.

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#1 Comment By Tami Quiring (@VillageGamer) On Thursday January 16, 2014 @ 12:08 am

Join @CANWITBC For The January Breakfast Club With Katie Bennett [9]