Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets & Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are

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Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets & Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are is an essential resource for early or mid-career professionals who want to attract and accelerate leadership opportunities at work.Written by Damaris Patterson Price, a Human Resources veteran and practicing executive coach, Unlock Your Leadership takes a look at why you're not being offered leadership positions and what to do about it by exploring:- What may be getting in the way of your next promotion.- The key differences between people who attract choice career opportunities and those who do not. - The nuanced walk and talk of professionals who are considered promotable leadership material. - Strategic behaviors that can help you demonstrate that you are ready for what's next - right now. Getting ahead at work often means learning the hard way - and usually on your own. Unlock Your Leadership is a supportive partner that will offer a development plan and honest insights about career climbing that, unfortunately, most professionals will never get. If you don't have a personal career coach, this book is the next best thing.

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Damaris Patterson Price is the principal of Working River Leadership Consulting--a northeast Ohio training boutique that designs and delivers B2B and B2C coaching, consulting, and learning products to grow the Leadership, Career, and Managerial competencies of an organization's most powerful asset: its leaders. As a Human Resources veteran, Damaris' work is the product of nearly 30 years in the people-development business focused on the growth of leadership talent for next-level positions. Informed by her own experiences coaching and managing leaders, her solutions have been effectively applied by a broad and diverse spectrum of people within Corporate Retail firms, Chemical companies, Financial Services, Marketing & PR firms, Higher Education and Independent School administration, Insurance providers, Tech companies, Non-Profits, Specialty Food Manufacturers, Foundations, Professional Associations, Large Hospital Systems, and Law Firms. Damaris is the author of the non-fiction book Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets & Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are, which Kirkus Reviews described as a road map and a practical, in-depth guide and the closest thing to having a personal career coach. It is an essential strategic playbook for early or mid-career professionals who want to attract and accelerate leadership opportunities at work.Damaris Patterson Price holds a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology. While also serving as an adjunct professor at Cleveland State University, Damaris is a certified Organizational Development and Diversity practitioner, as well as a Board-Certified Executive Coach, with additional credentials from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Forbes Coaches Council. Damaris and her children, a set of twins, live in northeast Ohio.