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Music I'm Muriel Wilkins, and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR podcast network.

I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the road. My job is to help them

get over that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them so that hopefully

they can lead with a little more ease. I typically work with clients over the course of several months,

but on this show, we have a one-time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge

they're facing.

Today's guest is someone will call Sabrina to protect her confidentiality.

She's an HR leader at a global company and has been in the industry for a few decades.

I am a striver, and so I'm always looking for something new and challenging and new hills.

What was new for me when I made the transition to more broader HR

was that it was something I had never done because I had such a strong technical background.

I started my own business, you know,

shortly after that. And what was exciting about that was the fact that I had to work with

multiple clients. I reinvented myself multiple times during that time. And I think what just keeps me

moving is that my desire to want to grow. I want to learn something new in every

role that I take on. Now that she's further along in her career and in a different place in her

life, Sabrina wants to continue to pursue new interesting opportunities, but in a different way.

She feels like she isn't learning as much as she used to and is itching

for that new challenge.

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