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Todays hardworking professionals are navigating sudden waves of financial stress, management shakeups, and downsizing. Using the experiences of Titanic survivors as a powerful metaphor, executive coach Maggie Craddock offers lessons for a transformative approach to our professional lives, one that recognizes that "every man for himself" doesnt work long-term. Lifeboat is organized as a series of key questions we all need to ask ourselves when facing unexpected career disruption or difficult changes at our existing jobs. These questions help readers clarify their authentic priorities, assess the group energy that guides a particular workplace, and identify the type of job that will help them reach their true potential.
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Maggie Craddock is an executive coach with over 20 years of experience working with clients at all levels of the professional spectrum. Best known for her work with Fortune 500 CEOs and senior management teams, Maggie has coached people at all levels of the professional spectrum. She has been featured on CNBC, ABC News, National Public Radio and quoted in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Chicago Tribune.Maggie is the author of Power Genes: Understanding Your Power Persona and How to Wield It at Work (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011) and The Authentic Career: Following the Path of Self-Discovery to Professional Fulfillment (New World Library, 2004) .She has also written a wide range of nationally syndicated articles on relational agility in the workplace and her methodology has been discussed in publications ranging from the Harvard Business Review to Oprah Magazine.Maggie has been featured at Deutsche Bank's annual Women on Wall Street conference, she has served on the faculty of The Advanced Management Program at Wharton University and she is a popular keynote speaker at leadership conferences for both corporate clients and industry networking associations. Before founding her executive coaching firm in 1998, Maggie worked on both on the buy-side and the sell-side in the financial services industry. As a lead portfolio manager working for Scudder, Stevens and Clark, Maggie received two Lipper Awards for top national fund performance: Best Short Term Multi-Market Income Fund, ranked #1 by Lipper in a universe of 77 funds, and Best World Income Fund over $1 billion in size, ranked #1 by Lipper in a universe of 7 funds. She also served as a National Director of Consultant Relations for Sanford C. Bernstein and represented the firm at board presentations for top pension fund clients across the country.Maggie received an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics as well as an MSW from New York University. Maggie received her BA in Economics from Smith College, and she is an Ackerman certified family therapist.Learn more about Maggie at WorkplaceRelationships.com
