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HBR Presents.

I'm Yario Wilkins, and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR Presents

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 Denise to protect her confidentiality.

She's recently been promoted to vice president at a large insurance company.

She worked her way up in the industry from an entry-level position into leadership and has

really embraced this role.

But it's happened at a time when there's also been a lot of change.

So for a long time, it had been a very small incubated, you know, startup, you know, boots

to the ground type of organization. So you sort of had to do everything. I was, you know,

I ran the innovation team and I also ran, you know, to make sure I had coffee in the office.

And I also made just like, it was like a lot of everything right fast forward

there's a lot of shifting that's happening and so I was sort of the historian of the group

but we have all these new people that have joined the team and they're very passionate about what

they bring after a lot of work in many successes growing her division with her team, there was a merger.

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