Unlock!: 7 Steps to Transform Your Career and Realize Your Leadership Potential

by Abhijeet Khadilkar, Pamela Slim (Foreword)

What if there was a template you could follow to map your own career success in these disruptive times?The world is filled with smart, talented, and hardworking people whose careers get stuck. Are you feeling like one of them?Despite what most career self-help books would tell you, getting unstuck is about more than motivation. For the past decade, Silicon Valley executive and leadership coach Abhijeet Khadilkar has been helping some of the most driven, entrepreneurial and creative people in the world to unlock their potential and accelerate their careers. In this book, he reveals what it really takes to find your own North Star for personal growth. Unlock! is filled with templates, guides and a framework for the seven crucial steps anyone can use to unlock their potential as a leader, even during a recession (or a global pandemic). From a guide to learning how to take advantage of market trends to advice on how to build on your existing strengths, the insights in this book will help you start turning the flywheel of career growth to create value for your organization, community, AND yourself.Written in an easy-to-access style, Unlock! includes strategies, work examples, and practical exercises as well as reflections useful at any stage of your career. The path to building a more fulfilling career is ahead, and this book is the guide you need to unlock your true leadership potential.   PRAISE FOR "Stuck? Unlock! offers practical advice to professionals who need to jumpstart their careers. If you believe that your career growth is your #1 job, do yourself a favor and pick up this book. The frameworks and recommendations provided in Unlock! equip you to move quickly from frustration to action, while Khadilkar's to-the-point style make this a compelling, as well as immensely useful read."-- Jonathan Copulsky, author of "The Technology Fallacy", former CMO, Deloitte Consulting, and faculty member, Northwestern University"Abhijeet is an absolute treasure. One of my favorite things about this book is that he writes openly about the importance of mindset, which in my opinion is one of the top two indicators of success (along with emotional intelligence)."-- Johanna Lyman, CEO of Next Gen Orgs and president of Bay Area Chapter of Conscious Capitalism"Managing your career is your most important job. But oftentimes it is hard to get started in our personal transformation journeys; too many questions and too much uncertainty cloud our vision. There are lots of armchair experts who dispense career advice, but moving from talk to action is difficult. I had the pleasure of working with Khadilkar early in his career, and over time witnessed his own transformation into a tech leader and (reluctant) career coach. In Unlock! he synthesizes a very practical, seven-step approach to define your personal strategy from his experience and shows you how to execute it to become the leader you are meant to be."-- Alejandro DanylyszynPrincipal, Deloitte Consulting "Abhijeet has continued to strive for doing not only what's best for business but also honing his leadership skills to bring out the best in his team."-- Joe PintoChief Customer Experience Officer, Pure Storage"Investing in yourself always pays off, Unlock! is your career investment tool.

233 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 2, 2020