Gerod King utilizes his skills, training and experience to discuss 5 steps for successful crisis leadership.  Gerod is a retired U.S. Army Reserve, senior non-commissioned officer and a Bosnia armed conflict veteran. He is also a retired U.S. Department of Justice, senior special agent. He has a very powerful background in investigative/project management, facilitation, training, coaching, senior management, national and regional recruitment, diversity and inclusion initiatives. He was a government agency spokesperson who addressed public and media inquiries from multiple states. He also conducted numerous on camera interviews with NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and Spectrum Cable News.

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5 Steps for Crisis Leadership - Gerod King

The author of Careering and one of our coaches, Dana Gower, discusses the new job market opportunities in the Triangle, NC and beyond as we look forward in 2021. We have just enough poker references to please you.

Jobs, The NC Economy and Your Best Poker Face

How do you organize and deliver a winning Ted Talk? That is not easy to do because the standard set is so high. Who do you turn to about creating a powerful Ted? John M. O'Connor talks with Devin Marks and brings you his insights and ideas.

Ted Talk Insights With "The Ted Talk Whisperer" Devin Marks and John O'Connor

Hard-hitting podcast from his recent presentation on how to lead your organization like a nuclear submariner with our client, friend, entrepreneur and author Jon S. Rennie. He discusses his new book which we highly recommend!

Jon is the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Peak Demand Inc., a premier manufacturer of components for electrical utilities. He is a former U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer who made seven deployments during the end of the Cold War.

All In The Same Boat: Lead Your Organization Like A Nuclear Submariner with Author Jon S. Rennie

Matthew Bracket brings his insights, a diverse career history and powerful recent experiences as Navy Chaplain to this discussion about mental health and suicide awareness with John M. O’Connor. Matthew and John discuss Matthew’s personal thoughts, his experiences in counseling others and ideas that should encourage you. Have you faced set backs in your life and career? Are you a leader who helps others? How can you understand pain and the thought of personal harm at times and when might it move to the more serious? When do you or others you know feel stuck and face internal battles? What are some of the issues of this generation? These are vulnerable times. Increase your awareness through this podcast. 

Need More Help For You or Someone You Know? Check this out! Help is available speak with someone today, The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a United States-based suicide prevention network of over 160 crisis centers that provides 24/7 service via a toll-free hotline with the number 1-800-273-8255.

Mental Health And Suicide Awareness With Matthew Brackett

Attending a meeting can be career enhancing or career diminishing. Find out how to be present, bring and get the most out of our hybrid meetings today with CareerPro's John M. O'Connor and Breathing's Space's Jeff Davidson.

How To Attend A Meeting - John M. O'Connor and Jeff Davidson

Jeff Davidson, The Work-Life Balance Expert, and CareerPro's John M. O'Connor discuss how 21 secrets to longevity. Listen in and extend not just your work-life but your life.

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abe Lincoln

21 Secrets To Longevity - Jeff Davidson

If you want to move forward in your career you cannot effectively multi-task but you can manage multiple priorities. Listen to John M. O'Connor and the Work-Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson on critical recommendations.

Managing Multiple Priorities - Jeff Davidson

Decoding The Message Behind Common Job Interview Questions. We talk with Rylan O'Connor and he challenges John to live answer and comment on the messages behind the interview veil.

Peering Beyond The Interview Veil - John M OConnor

Managing growth amid resignations, retirements and metaverses with Dana Gower and John O'Connor. How will you handle your leadership responsibilities and your career amongst this great reset.

The Great Employment Reset with Dana Gower and John M. O'Connor

Let's go old school on this critical reading list from our friend and collaborator David Mantica. This is a must listen to for these must reads, hosted by John.

10 Books To Read In 2022 With David Mantica & John O'Connor

Jeff Davidson "The Work-Life Balance Expert®" and John O'Connor President of CareerPro Inc.,  Discuss the importance of Checklists for creating effective performance in both your professional and personal life.

Jeff Davidson - Checklists For Effective Performance

Dana Gower and John M. O'Connor talk about how you can create value in the minds of others through researching issues, developing relationships and networking with other people's needs in mind during career change.

Establish Your Value Proposition Through Research and Relationships

If you want to find out how to create a runway so you can make your career move you have come to the right podcast today. Listen in for some ideas and tips so you have career choices.

The Concept Of Runway In Your Search With David Mantica

John discusses the value and importance of Outplacement when employees are terminated from their jobs. Outplacement can soften the blow and help redirect those affected.

Outplacement Tips with Paul Mayer

In this session, John talks with fellow Career Transition expert Paul Meyer about how to get the most out of your Professional Outplacement package.

Maximizing Your Professional Outplacement Job Assistance

Find out the background, thought process and the way to more purposeful, productive CRM minded networking.

Managing Your Networking With David Mantica

In this track, work/life balance expert Jeff Davidson discusses with John ways to take control of your life with three major temptations: 1. Food 2. TV and 3. Internet.

Maintaining Control in a World of Temptation

Do you want to gain insight into information you need and deepen key relationships? Wherever you are in your career and wherever you are in multiple situations you can use questions to create value. Jeff Davidson speaks with John M. O'Connor to help you bring leverage to your questions that will bring multiple advantages and results.

Leveraging Questions For Professional & Personal Gain With Jeff Davidson & John M O'Connor

Dr. Vicki discusses and dispels myths about this now widely utilized word and how it may affect your ability to work, lead and creatively build your career.

Why Inclusion Matters with Dr Vicki Lawrence

In this podcast, Jeff explains how our attachments - good and bad - stick and ways to manage them over time. Destructive attachments with relationships or with old work habits or with inaccurate information sources are hard to break. Jeff argues that we should as humans find ways to "unlearn and relearn" new habits when things change or need to change.

"Attachment & How To Overcome It" with Jeff Davidson "The Work-Life Balance Expert®"

John hosts a very interesting segment with Edwin Trevor-Roberts, Phd. on ways you can find more meaning in your work life and the benefits of working well with others.

Meaningful.Work.Together With Edwin Trevor-Roberts, Phd

Listen as John interviews top alternative careers coach Rachel Cox on options other than traditional W2 jobs as an entrepreneur and a mix of this spirit as an intrapreneur within an organization.

Entrepreneurship & Alternative Career Strategies With Rachel Cox

Listen in as John discusses establishing yourself as a consultant following a traditional career as a seasoned professional. Justin provides tips on the business side of breaking into consulting as well as the financial planning aspects.

Becoming A Consultant In The 2nd Act Of Your Career With Justin D. Smith CFA CFP  - 6:19:23, 3.50 PM

In this episode, John and Dana discuss intricacies of appropriately networking, tips and ideas that work.

Networking's "Often" Missing Link - John O'Connor & Dana Gower

Is this podcast, John and Dana discuss what is effective networking - being prepared to pivot based upon who you are talking to.

Networking Is Never Static - John O'Connor & Dana Gower - 8:15:23, 4.20 PM

It's Labor Day! But John and Steven have too much to talk about to just sit back and relax! Join these friends of 20+ years as they discuss Innovator Steven Keith, and the key to his highly successful company CX Pilots.

Innovations in Hiring and Recruiting with Steven Keith

On today's episode of the CareerPro Podcast, John talks with the work-life balance expert Jeff Davidson as they discuss "Brainstorming for One."

Brainstorming for One with Jeff Davidson

In this episode of the CareerPro Podcast, John chats with the Work/Life Balance expert himself, Jeff Davidson, about overcoming rejection. Listen as Jeff shares some of his personal experiences with rejection and offers advice on how to pursue your goals even when it feels as if the world is working against you.

Overcoming Rejection with Jeff Davidson

In this episode of the CareerPro Podcast, John sits down with Brigadier General Stephen Iocavelli and they talk about how to handle a joint career path.

How to Handle a Joint Career Path with Brigadier General Stephen Iocavelli

In this episode of the CareerPro Podcast, John talks with Career Advisor, Dana Gower, about what the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) CAN'T do!

What The ATS CAN'T DO with Dana Gower

This is about the subtle things that will fine tune your communications. Yes, influence can mean a lot of things but to David Mantica it means much more than pushing to get your way. It's about how to guide your leadership.

Fine Tune Your Influencing Skills With David Mantica

The art of likeonomics will help you create your internal board of directors, land your next role and create the new relationships you need to create the results you want. Join this passionate, interactive discussion with David Mantica and John M. O'Connor hosting. The book by Bhargava may have started the trend but Mantica will drive this meaning home to you.

Rohit Bhargva says People decide who to trust, what advice to heed, and which individuals to forge personal or transactional relationships with based on a simple metric of believability. Success, in turn, comes from understanding one basic principle: how to be more trusted. Likeonomics offers a new vision of a world beyond Facebook where personal relationships, likeability, brutal honesty, extreme simplicity, and basic humanity are behind everything from multi-million dollar mergers to record-breaking product sales. There is a real ROI to likeability, and exactly how big it is will amaze you.

For more on agile and David Mantica's focus today with SoftEd. Since the signing of the Agile Manifesto in 2001 https://agilemanifesto.org/  the agile way of working has taken the project management, application development and software delivery world by storm.

At least a million professionals have obtained some type of agile certification. Organizations have transformed their process of software development and delivery leading to increased services and capabilities for internal and external customers, driving productivity increases and revenue growth.

John M. O'Connor is the leader of CareerPro Inc. and David Mantica is a client/alumni, part time coach and on our Board of Advisors!

Likeonomics For the 21st Century with David Mantica

Our podcast is led by CareerPro Inc.'s President John M. O'Connor and focuses on topics related to the career and the career journey from diverse perspectives.

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