John Packer interviews some of the leading figures in their industry to give you professional insights and help you take your career to the next level. Upgrade Your Career podcast is for professionals who are ready for the next challenge. John and his guests give you the insights you need to make your next career move.
How to Bet on Yourself & Become Unstoppable in your Career | Carly Taylor
In this episode, Carly shares tips on how to get unstuck in your career, advocate for yourself, navigate situations with leadership, and mindfully leverage your strengths to accelerate your career. Listen in to learn about how to beat imposter syndrome, lead with authenticity, and push your own boundaries as Carly breaks down her own career journey so others can leverage her experience. Carly is a data scientist, computational chemist, and machine learning enthusiast. She works as a sec...
20 Dec 2022
#08 Why you Should be Relationshipping Instead of Networking | Jake West
Jake is a tech leader who has been an engineer, consultant, and automation specialist in the industry. He was a Summa Cum Laude student in the College of Engineering at WSU and received the colleges Mr. Mac, full ride scholarship for academic excellence, relationship building and extracurricular involvement. While he developed and automated for Qualtrics, a 6 billion dollar SaaS company, he finds his biggest accomplishment to be able to connect and relate to anyone and everyone through a phil...
21 Nov 2022
#07: What an Orange Can Tell You About Getting Ahead in Your Career with Kirk Weisler
Have you ever seen someone get a promotion over other candidates who had more experience and qualifications? How did they beat the system? That’s what our guest, Kirk Weisler, will be revealing on today’s podcast. He shares practical lessons about how getting a promotion isn’t simply checking off boxes – it’s not a mathematical equation. The people who win promotions are the ones who understand the subtleties and value of human connection. Kirk is an employee satisfaction consultant, or Chief...
31 Oct 2022
#06: Does Your Career Suck? Try These Psychological Tricks to Accelerate Your Career Forward | Dr. Paul Jenkins
Are you feeling disappointed or stuck in your career? In this episode, Dr. Paul Jenkins, will share clever tactics to recalibrate your perspective and help you uncover hidden career opportunities. Dr. Paul is a clinical psychologist specializing in the science and practice of positivity. He is full of enthusiasm about living and teaching others how to live a positive, fulfilling life. Dr. Paul is a coach, keynote speaker, trainer, host of a YouTube channel, and the author of the book PA...
14 Oct 2022
#05: How to Align Your Career with Your Purpose & Passion | Elizabeth Saunders
In this episode, Elizabeth Saunders explains the value of “time investment” and shares her personal story about how she invested her time on her purpose and passions was able to build a career that was not only lucrative, but personally meaningful and fulfilling. Elizabeth is a writer, entrepreneur, and time management coach. She coaches clients on how to develop the right habits, career choices, and perspectives that lead to a happy, successful, and productive career. She shares how taking r...
14 Sept 2022
#04 How to Turn Your Big Career Mistakes into Big Career Opportunities | Mark Rogers
In this episode we’ll take a deep dive together on a specific business case with a leader who successfully climbed the corporate ladder using feedback as a competitive career advantage. You’ll hear how our guest, Mark Rogers, gathered feedback the right way and applied a daily helping of humility to accelerate his learning curve and propel his career trajectory. In fact, his pathway was anything but ordinary. Rather than following the blueprint of getting an MBA right out of college, he follo...
30 Aug 2022
#03: How to Enter a Flow State to Be More Productive at Work | Dr. Bruce Jackson
In this podcast, we’ll hear from Dr. Bruce Jackson about how achieving a state of flow is crucial to acquiring a career upgrade. Bruce is one of the world’s foremost experts on the concept of flow. Flow is a mental state of sustained focus and productivity and Bruce has developed systems to create the conditions of confidence and clarity in your career. Bruce has worked with Fortune 500 companies, colleges/universities, and non-profit institutions to develop and implement principles of ...
15 Aug 2022
#02: The #1 Trick for an Easy Career in the Future | Art Coombs
Would you rather live an easy life now, avoid challenges, and deal with the consequences later? Or are you willing to sacrifice comfort today, tackle the hard decisions now, to achieve a future of financial security, health, and life fulfillment? Today’s guest, Art Coombs, explains that there are two ways we can look at getting things done: The hard-easy method or the easy-hard method. Art Coombs is a leadership speaker, author, and business development professional with over 25 years o...
22 Jul 2022
#01: How to Unlock Enormous Career Success by Living on the Competitive Edge | Ben Taylor
It’s certainly no breaking news – artificial Intelligence is taking over the world. Yet, it appears there’s no straight path to the top in an AI career. In this episode of Upgrade Your Career, you’ll be hearing from Ben Taylor, and how he found a fulfilling connection between snowboarding, calculus, high-performance computing, and a cutting-edge career. How exactly did Ben Taylor go from living in a tent in the woods – with his entire belongings holed up in six lockers in a gym – to redesigni...
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