Accelerate your impact Quotes

“Fear is a huge obstacle for professional women and can show up in many forms impacting decisions, direction and eventually impact”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“I have seen many women gain additional leadership skills by being part of a board of director. It is often a tremendous opportunity and experience while advancing their professional brand through these types of opportunities.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Networking in the right circles can help you identify people who can show you the ropes and potentially open those doors that you perceive as being closed.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“A Sponsor is someone in your network that can create connections for you, lead you to important information or help you avoid potential pitfalls based on their experience, network, viewpoint, and knowledge of you.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Many of your future career advancements could require someone else facilitating and promoting you within critical conversations and situations in which you may not be privy too.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Working in most high-impact environments can be lonely, especially if you are one of the only women. Taking time to create effective mentors and sponsors often helps professional women avoid isolation and common career potholes.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Just as athletes need coaches and companies need PR experts, individuals need career catalysts at different points along the way.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Agreeing to the wrong requests for my time in the form of a commitment negatively influences the right requests and often impacts my ability to create my desired results.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“The ability to stop doing something that is not adding value to my work or my life frees up time within my schedule to select more relevant activities.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“When someone asks you about your work, it is vital to share a snapshot of your accomplishments while integrating your future aspirations.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“I now realize that I could have easily taken that “no, thanks” and turned it into an unproductive series of actions. But I recognized that I had high self-esteem and confidence in my abilities to achieve.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Your future is now, how you show up matters, who you bring with you matters and where you focus your time matters. It all matters if you want to contribute in new ways.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“It is important to build a trusted sphere of influence, especially during times in your life when you are looking to stretch in new directions.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Many will jump to the importance of networking, but I have found that while doing more networking without putting in the effort to make sure you’re doing it right can make you very busy, with no guaranteed momentum.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Through my work and related interaction with professional women, I have found that many professional women are relevant based on their current role, but often struggle to effectively expand their scope of expertise and applicability based on where they desire to go next.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Know that not everything you do, build or participate in will be “the thing,” but know that it is all practice and lessons for where you need to go next.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“Each time I was pushed down, I got back up. It might have taken a few months, but through positive self-talk, great mentors and sponsors and passion for my ability to make a difference, I moved back to a position where I could regroup, re-evaluate and reposition myself for what was next.”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

“If we don’t show up, stand up or speak up, then how will others know we are relevant, ready and able?”
― J.J. DiGeronimo, Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path