How Do I Transition from a Corporate Leadership Role to Entrepreneurship?

Coaching Real Leaders

Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Executive, Business/careers, Leadership, Careers, Business/management, Sessions, Hbr, Coaching, Review, Society & Culture, C-suite, Leaders, Harvard, Business, Management

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

She’s had a successful career leading in the corporate world and now she’s decided to venture out on her own to build a consulting business from scratch. But she’s struggling with her move into entrepreneurship and wonders if she made the right decision. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through how to make the most out of her entrepreneurial journey.

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0:00.0	HBR Presents.
0:03.0	I'm Yario Wilkins and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR Presents Network.
0:19.0	I'm a longtime executive coach who works with
0:22.2	highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the road. My job is to help them get over
0:27.1	that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them so that hopefully
0:32.0	they can lead with a little more ease. I typically work with clients over the course of several
0:37.4	months, but on this show,
0:39.0	we have a one-time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing.
0:47.9	Today's guest is someone will call Jane to protect her confidentiality. For the last 10 years or so,
0:53.8	she's worked in a corporate environment
0:55.3	managing across different lines of business and regions. She and her team were revenue drivers,
1:00.8	and she had a reputation for turning around ailing parts of the business. While I certainly have
1:07.6	a lot of pride in the revenue and the results that I delivered. I have a ton of pride
1:13.3	around the impact that I had as a leader on people. So I had to kind of balance my time
1:20.6	between understanding the scenario of the business and start to create a really quick short-term strategy, but also be focused on the
1:32.5	people side, because as we very well know, if you don't have the people portion correct,
1:37.9	you're certainly not going to have the productivity there that you need in order to deliver
1:41.9	on the business objectives. That role created the foundation for where she is now in her career.
1:48.0	She recently launched her own consulting practice,
1:51.0	taking the formula she used internally to now help her clients grow their businesses.
1:56.0	But the transition from corporate to entrepreneurship is new for Jane.
2:00.0	And I started my own management consulting business.
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