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Turning Into Opportunity Karen Catlin Advocate for Women inTech karencatlin.com @kecatlin #NercompPDO4 Evaluation form: bit.ly/nercomp_career © 2015 by Karen Catlin. All rights reserved.

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Page 1: Turning Risk Into Opportunity - NERCOMP Jan 2015

Turning    

 

Into  Opportunity    

Karen  Catlin  Advocate  for  Women  in  Tech  

karencatlin.com  @kecatlin    #NercompPDO4  

Evaluation  form:  bit.ly/nercomp_career    

©  2015  by  Karen  Catlin.  All  rights  reserved.  

 

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My  risk-­‐taking  journey  

 

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Focused  on  the  downsides      

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Sheltered  in  place      

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“Rescued”  

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The  promised  land      

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Advocate  for  tech  women      

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It’s  all  about  the  upsides      

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But  what  if  I  fail?  You  will.  A  better  question  might  be,  ‘after  I  fail,  then  what?’    ~Seth  Godin  

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There  were  many  terrible  things  in  my  life,  and  most  of  them  never  happened.      ~Michel  de  Montaigne  

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Pessimism  about  upsides      

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What’s  a  woman  to  do?      

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#1:  Big  Ideas  Brunch      

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#2:  Balanced  Portfolio      

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#3:  Prototype  your  life      

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#4:  Personal  board  of  advisors      

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Why  bother?      

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Innovator’s  Dilemma      

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What  got  you  here,  won't  get  you  there.    ~Marshall  Goldsmith  

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Role  model?      

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Thank  you!    

Karen  Catlin  

karencatlin.com  

@kecatlin    

#NercompPDO4  

 

Evaluation  form:  bit.ly/nercomp_career  

 

©  2015  by  Karen  Catlin.  All  rights  reserved.  

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Image  courtesy  of  Blue  Square  Thing  on  Flickr  via  Crea4ve  Commons  License.  2012.  

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blog.mozilla.org/labs/2011/01/student-­‐outreach-­‐update-­‐on-­‐bauhaus-­‐universi4es-­‐open-­‐interac4on-­‐design-­‐course/    Image  courtesy  of  Stu  pendousmat  under  Crea4ve  Commons  CC-­‐BY-­‐SA-­‐3.0  

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