Virtual | The Quandary: How to Succeed at Work Without Losing Yourself with Christine Graves
You worked hard. You earned the title. You built the credibility. You checked every box.
Maybe you also came home from an expanded state, or you have been microdosing for a while (or just beginning), and something got very clear. You can see where your life no longer matches what you know to be true, and the loudest place is work.
Something in you knows there is more. More meaning. More alignment. More than the day in and day out.
Sometimes it shows up at lunch. Sometimes it shows up in your sleep, your shoulders, or in the way you have gone quiet in the same meetings you used to lead.
Here is the quandary. You cannot afford to walk away, and you know you cannot keep going like this.
Join Executive Career Advisor and Strategist Christine Graves for a 60 minute Wisdom Circle on what it actually takes to succeed in the corporate world and stay whole while you do it.
The problem is not you
Christine has spent decades inside finance, human resources, and executive advising. She has watched the same thing happen to good people over and over. They are invaluable and invisible at the same time. Their capability, their role, and their identity stop agreeing with each other, and they spend their days doing work that does not reflect who they actually are.
Her whole practice runs on one line. You do not need a new resume, you need a new message. And the message cannot be true until the person underneath it is coherent.
She calls the missing piece coherence.
The frame she built for this circle
Coherence is structural. Do your capability, your role, and your identity agree?
Authenticity is relational. Are you the same person in the meeting that you are at home?
Alignment is operational. Does the way you spend your days match what you say you value?
Wholeness is spiritual. Is anything in your life fractured or missing?
Flip the triangle
Christine has named the three roles she sees again and again in corporate life.
The Over-Functioning Operator, who carries what is not theirs
The Constrained Executor, who has the answer and no room to say it
The Protective Controller, who holds it all together so nothing falls apart
If you have ever been the most invaluable person in the room and the least visible one, you already know at least one of these by heart.
Then she will show you the flip.
The Strategic Creator
The Truth Advocate
The Power Mentor
You will see which corner you have been living in, and what it takes to move.
What you will walk away with
A clear read on where your capability, your role, and your identity stopped agreeing
Language for what your body has been trying to tell you
A way to resource your nervous system first, because under stress we tend to see only two options and there are always more
Your present day strengths named out loud, not the ones you outgrew ten years ago
One uncomfortable next step, chosen on purpose
Who this is for
The sole provider who cannot simply quit.
The high performer who is running on empty and knows it.
The person who sees clearly what is happening at work and has no one to say it to.
Whether you are in the middle of a transition, reaching for more meaning in the work you already have, or ready for the next real chapter of your career, this session will help you reconnect with your why, tell a truer story about your work, and take one deliberate step toward the life you actually want.
Live Q&A included. Recording sent to everyone who registers.
About Christine Graves
Christine Graves, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is an Executive Career Advisor and Strategist who helps high functioning leaders close the gap between who they are, how they operate, and how the market reads them.
She began in human resources as a recruiter, with extensive hiring experience across many companies and hiring managers. She has also made multiple career pivots of her own, working in industrial, a technology start-up, a member association, professional services, and non-profit.
Christine has more than 30,000 followers and connections on LinkedIn, where she posts daily, and more than 5,700 subscribers to her bi-monthly newsletter.
About the Psychable Wisdom Circle
The Psychable Wisdom Circle gathers on the first Saturday of every month. Each session brings a guest whose work helps us live with more freedom, more coherence, more sovereignty, and more truth. Free to attend, by donation. Suggested $40.
Psychable is not a medical provider. This session is educational and is not medical or clinical advice.