Pivot with Your Strengths

CareerCast - Life-long Career Development

Are you ready to make a move, or at least want to, and not sure how to bridge from your past to your aspiration? Kimberly B. Cummings, a leading career and leadership development expert, accomplished speaker, and author of Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning into a Career You’ll Love, would emphatically tell you to pivot with your strengths, values, and gifts. In this CareerCast, Kimberly shares her own pivots, insights, perspective, and wisdom from those shifts, and how you can create a next move that really matter.

Aired August 20, 2021

Biography

Kimberly B. Cummings is a leading career and leadership development expert and an accomplished speaker and podcast host whose mission is to empower women and people of color in the workplace. Her personal and professional development company, Manifest Yourself, LLC, provides in-person and virtual workshops, trainings, and coaching to professionals looking to lead a dynamic career and life. Kimberly has had the opportunity to speak to and create workshops for many organizations, including the New Jersey Conference for Women, Ellevate Network, Urban League, Princeton University and National Sales Network, SXSW, among others. She is also on the Board of Directors for The Power of You Teens organization. Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning into a Career You’ll Love is her first book. Find her online at kimberlybcummings.com and manifestyourself.com, as well as on Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads.

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