Overcoming a Career Challenge

CareerCast - Life-long Career Development

 Susan Ershler

Career challenges come in many different forms—from not having the requisite experience or being seen as someone with too many years in the workforce, to being in a toxic culture or taking on too much risk and failing. So is there a way through it? Susan Ershler, would tell you absolutely "yes." Her confidence of this comes from years in leadership positions in global companies and her climbing the Seven Summits around the world which became the basis for her book, Conquering The Seven Summits of Sales: From Everest To Every Business, Achieving Peak Performance as well as Together on Top of the World. In this CareerCast, Susan shares her unique perspective on facing challenges and turning them to your advantage.

Aired October 17, 2014

Susan Ershler and her husband, Phil, became the first couple in history to climb the Seven Summits. She is a sought-after international speaker who has served in leadership positions for Fortune 500 companies for more than twenty years. Her client list includes such industry giants as Aflac, Boeing, Cisco, Eli Lilly, Microsoft, Nike, and Wells Fargo, to name a few. She is co-author of Conquering The Seven Summits Of Sales: From Everest To Every Business, Achieving Peak Performance as well as Together on Top of the World. Ershler lives in Washington State.

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The Leader’s Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation by John Baldoni (2012)

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Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life by John Calipari (2010)

Comebacks: Powerful Lessons from Leaders Who Endured Setbacks and Recaptured Success on Their Terms by Andrea Redmond and Patricia Crisafulli (2010)

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor (2010)

Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith (2010)

Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss by Martha I. Finney (2009)

When Smart People Fail by Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb (2009)

Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward (2007)

Career Comeback: Eight Steps to Getting Back on Your Feet When You’re Fired, Laid Off, or Your Business Venture Has Failed—And Finding More Job Satisfaction Than Ever Before by Bradley Richardson (2004)

Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes by Sydney Finkelstein (2004)

Susan Ershler Seven Summits

Read an excerpt from Conquering the Seven Summits of Sales: From Everest to Every Business, Achieving Peak Performance by Susan Ershler and John Waechter.

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