Amelia Schaffner: The Value of Exploring Career Detours

11/01/2023 52 min Episodio 86
Amelia Schaffner: The Value of Exploring Career Detours

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Today's guest is a successful multi-disciplinary executive who over her 20 year career has never forced herself to fit within a box. It's only natural that her podcast episode mirrors her career. On today's episode, rather than walk through the different chapters of her career we have a powerful conversation on how she approaches her career and life.Meet Amelia Schaffner.  Most recently Amelia was the Co-Founder and Managing Director for Emory University's Center of Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Prior to this Amelia spent nearly 16 years at Accenture where she started in Management Consulting and would go on to be a Strategy Senior Manager and eventually Strategy Principal focused on growing global innovation at Accenture. Amelia is also an amateur photographer and creator of ZTastyLife, her culinary blog where she writes about staying true to her Italian cultural and culinary roots while living abroad in America.On today’s episode we discuss:The importance of exploring our intuitive voiceGetting off the highway for the occasional detourCommunicating who you are when you don’t fit in any particular boxEnjoy!Episode Links:Connect with Amelia on LinkedInCheck out Amelia's blog Z Tasty Life