Be the CEO of Your Career
You spend your days advising candidates, guiding leaders, and helping others make some of the biggest decisions of their careers.
But when it comes to your own?
Most talent professionals are still operating reactively… waiting, hoping, or defaulting to what’s in front of them.
Not anymore….
Be the CEO of Your Career is about stepping out of execution mode and into ownership. Not traditional career coaching. Real strategy.
We’re taking the same lens you already use every day, pattern recognition, market awareness, decision-making, and turning it inward.
Because your career isn’t a job, it’s your biggest asset.
In this session, we’ll zoom out and look at your career like a CEO would:
Where are you actually going?
What are you optimizing for?
And are you making decisions… or deferring them?
You’ll leave with a clearer point of view, stronger positioning, and a more intentional way of navigating what’s next, on your terms.
What to Expect:
How to position yourself beyond a title so your value travels with you
A smarter, more natural approach to networking that actually opens doors
How to build readiness before urgency so you’re never negotiating from pressure
A new way to think about optionality and why it changes how you show up
Practical ways to advocate for yourself with clarity, not guesswork
Speaker Bio:
Keri-Lynne Shaw is the founder of The Salary Bump, where she helps high-achieving professionals own their worth, navigate transitions with confidence, and secure compensation that reflects their true value.
A former Chief People Officer turned career and negotiation strategist, KL blends insider HR expertise with real-world strategy to help professionals rise, without losing themselves in the process. Her frameworks have helped executives and emerging leaders alike land life-changing roles, renegotiate offers with power, and rewrite their career narratives from reactive to intentional.
Known for her no-fluff, high-impact approach, KL’s work sits at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and self-advocacy. She’s on a mission to close the gender and racial pay gap, one bold conversation at a time, and to empower people to stop waiting for permission and start taking the wheel of their careers.
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