Keynote address by Beth Ridley (Tempo Milwaukee Emerging Women Leaders Conference). Ridley introduces herself as founder of Brimful Life, summarizes a diverse international career across consulting, corporate, startups and nonprofit roles, and frames the talk around cultivating a positive, growth-oriented mindset to achieve professional success alongside personal wellbeing. Early remarks cover her credentials (Positive Psychology certification; BA in English Literature from University of Virginia; MA in International Relations from Tufts; MBA from Columbia), leadership roles (former Booz Allen consultant, Fortune 100 executive), places lived (London, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Boston, New York, Milwaukee), family life in Wisconsin, and the talk’s promise to share life lessons and weekly mindset practices to thrive through career ups-and-downs.
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BA in English Literature (University of Virginia); MA in International Relations (Tufts University); MBA (Columbia University).
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Beth believes that life is short so we should live it fully and that's why she created the Brimful Life, a career wellness company that provides solutions to help individuals achieve professional success along with personal well being and helps leaders create organizational cultures that enable others to thrive both professionally and personally. Beth has diverse leadership experience working in startup in corporate professional services and the nonprofit sector. Beth is a former Booz Allen management consultant and a former Fortune 100 company executive who's led strategy, sales, training, operations, diversity and inclusion, and client experience functions. She's lived and worked in London, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Boston, Boston and New York City. Beth combines her broad professional experience with a certification in Positive Psychology to encourage and enable others to infuse careers and organizational cultures with inspiration, innovation, joy and meaning through speaking engagements, workshop facilitation, as well as consulting and coaching services. She has a BA in English Literature from the University of Virginia, an MA in International Relations from Tufts University, and an MBA from Columbia University. Beth now lives in Wisconsin with her husband and three children. She recharges with running, speed skating. Speed skating we can kind of understand here in Wisconsin, given our tradition, but also watching cooking competition shows on tv. Now my husband would point out that this is something we hold in common because it's ironic because she really hates to cook. Beth will be sharing her insights today in how to transform your mindset One week at a time. Please join me in welcoming Beth.
Thank you for the nice introduction. I appreciate it so much. Thank you. It's funny, when you hear my own bio, I'm like, I'm 100 years old. I can claim that I appreciate it. And I will say I'm glad. These chairs up here, they look really appealing because these shoes were a good idea first thing in the morning and a couple hours in I'm rethinking that decision. But anyways, good morning. I loved a nice full room. So I actually want to reiterate what Mary was saying and applaud all of you for choosing to be here this morning to invest in yourselves, to invest in your growth and development. I think you've got a wonderful day ahead with a lot of great speakers and content. So I know you're going to get a lot out of this. So my goal for kicking off your day this morning is really to inspire you to foster and cultivate a positive and a growth mindset which I think is so critical in order to be successful professionally, but also to balance that with personal happiness and a sense of personal fulfillment and well being. As we know, ladies, careers can be Challenging, right? There are ups and downs, there are good things about them. But you know, there are some disappointments along the way. And if you guys know Amy Poehler, do you know the Saturday from Saturday Night Live? She talks about career and she always makes me laugh. So she's got this book called yes Please, has anyone read it? It's a memoir and she has a chapter in the book where she compares her career to a bad boyfriend. Right. So like a bad boyfriend who will say he'll pick you up at 7 and then never show up. Ladies, we've been there. Like a bad boyfriend who will ask to borrow your car and then crash it. You know your career will disappoint you along the way at some point, right? But you know, you may find yourself in situations that are not ideal career wise. You may find yourself in situations that a lot is out of your control. But I always believe the one thing that is in your control is your mindset and how you choose to perceive a situation, how you choose to respond and react in certain situations. So the good thing is your mindset is always under your control. The bad thing is sometimes it is the hardest thing to control. But there are things that you can do to foster and encourage a more positive growth mindset that actually will enable you to thrive even on the worst days. But to overall have a career where there's more harmony between professional success and, and personal happiness and personal well being. I think far too often, maybe women in particular, we feel like those may be in conflict or that we're always making a trade off or a choice. But it really comes down to mindset. So what I'm going to do is talk a little bit about this, share some life lessons from my own career journey and yeah, we'll sort of go from there. So before I launch into my specific experiences, I want to tell you a little bit more about myself. You heard my bio, But I'm really going to pick the story up. I would say when I was sort of like mid career. So for much of my early career I was living and working in New York City with my husband. That's where I went to business school. That's where I started working as a management consultant. And then when we had our first child, we decided to move to Milwaukee, which is.
