Creating a Meaningful Second Career

CareerCast - Life-long Career Development

Is it possible to create a meaningful career at any stage of life? Anita Hoffmann, Managing Director of Executiva Ltd, Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University’s Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, and author of Purpose & Impact, believes this is not only possible, but an absolute necessity for a successful career and life. In this CareerCast, Anita shares her perspective from deep experience in global corporate and consulting roles, insights, and practical strategies on how to build a meaningful second (or even third or fourth) career.

Aired August 17, 2018

Biography

Anita Hoffmann is Managing Director of Executiva Ltd, a boutique executive career transition coaching and search firm, Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University’s Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility and a published author.

Anita’s focus is on helping leaders create careers with Purpose and organisations find leaders able to deliver a Purpose driven future. She is particularly passionate about helping leaders also in their later career stages become Purpose driven.

In April 2018 Routledge published her book ‘Purpose & Impact: How Executives are Creating Meaningful Second Careers’, the companion book for individuals to her 2016 organisational paper for Cranfield.

Anita’s has senior executive experience in blue-chip industry (Exxon Chemicals, Dow Corning, ABB), management consulting (Accenture, Deloitte) and executive search (Heidrick & Struggles). She is a certified coach, a member of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the RSA.

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