36. Making Room for Creativity in Your Corporate Career with Jenna Masi
This episode of Professional Life Crisis features my friend and fellow podcaster, Jenna Masi. Jenna is an ex-KPMG consultant, ex-Chief of Staff and currently exploring themes around creativity in her career, and the career journeys of others. In this episode:
We delve into Jenna's experience in consulting (which, hint: was far better and cooler than mine!) and how the Innovation Lab at KPMG laid the foundation for her interest in startups. (You too can find startup-y experiences in consulting if you’re looking in the right places!)
Finding the right fit after leaving the innovation lab- after exploring the marketing or product routes, she eventually landed on the Chief of Staff role. We talked about which skills translated and which didn’t coming from a more corporate background into the CoS role at a scrappy startup.
How sabbaticals have helped Jenna’s career on a number of occasions (and not all the sabbaticals were formal!)
A day in her career when everything went wrong: how to pivot when the client hates your work, and still salvage the engagement by thinking on your feet and not being attached to your work.
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Brave and willing to share your embarrassing work story so we can all feel a bit better about the dumb sh*t we do at work? Don’t worry, all stories remain anonymous- neither of us wants to get a call from your boss.
Want to get to know Jenna more? You’re in luck because I also appeared on Jenna’s Podcast this week, talking all about how my creativity has affected my career trajectory!
Jenna's podcast often talks about balancing creativity with the demands of corporate life and offers great tips for anyone looking to keep their creative spark alive even amidst a demanding corporate job.
Go check it out and show her some love in the ratings!
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-Amanda