Dear Colleague,

Happy 2020! We kick off a new year and a new decade! Have you planned how you will 'lead your journey' and 'own your career'? The most qualified, equipped and motivated person to manage your career is YOU! You are the best person to determine your value-add and aspirations and to work towards achieving them. It is up to each of us to be the lead architect in planning and managing our careers. It takes time, effort, due diligence and discipline to strategize and execute our plan. Sometimes our journey takes us down different and exciting paths not planned for and we want to remain flexible to embracing them. Stay open and confident to taking risks when appropriate and push out of your comfort zone which can uncover new talents and lead to growth and progression. "Ten Essential Tips to Own Your Career."

As we lead our journey, our personal health and well-being are critical to our professional success. Nutrition, exercise and sleep are all interrelated to our professional success. To be effective in our jobs, we have to first be good to ourselves and our self-care. I have always believed in the power of relationships and building a strong network of strategic partners and alliances. In that spirit, I'm very excited to announce a new partner affiliation with Whole Balanced Nutrition, which offers this kind of service. Please read more below.

Enjoy your journey and please share your stories with me! I thank you for your on-going support and look forward to hearing from you! Here's to a fabulous 2020!

Best Regards,

Rita Balian Allen

New Partner Affiliate - Whole Balanced Nutrition Jillian Allen, MS, RD, LDN Whole Balanced Nutrition is an evidence-based nutritional counseling practice for whole body nourishment. Jillian Allen, MS, RD, LDN leads the practice and offers a variety of customized nutritional services. If you, a colleague, staff member or friend are looking for assistance from a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, please visit her website to learn more and/or to schedule a session. Whole Balanced Nutrition uses a client centered, whole systems approach, seeing you as a unique and whole being in efforts to optimize your health. With emphasis on all aspects of mind, body and quality of life, Jillian focuses on whole body nourishment to empower you to feel good, live well and thrive for the long run.

ALPFA and The Boston Club My journey includes my experience of serving as President of The Boston Club over the last couple of years, which has been rewarding in so many ways. One opportunity I have the pleasure of enjoying is meeting so many amazing and accomplished women, not only within the Club, but other organizations with which we collaborate and partner. One of those organizations is the Boston Chapter of ALPFA, the Association of Latino Professionals for America. We recently partnered on an event, "A Leader's Journey", discussing panel members' leadership successes and lessons. It was a wonderful evening of conversation, networking, great food and fun! Thank you ALPFA for having us and for your partnership!

Lead with Throughout our journey as leaders, we are role models and set the tone for preferred behaviors, norms and standards for the team. Even as individual contributors, we lead by example to inspire and motivate others. You don't have to be in a leadership role to be a leader. Do we lead with optimism and positivity? How do we share our thoughts, perspectives and insights? Are we credible and persuasive when articulating and proposing our ideas? Do we do so with confidence and optimism in ourselves and the outcome? If we believe the message we are delivering, so will others! Do we lead with YES!...I am excited about this and you should be too! Read more...

About Rita

Rita Balian Allen is the president of Rita B. Allen Associates, a national career management firm specializing in executive coaching, leadership development, management training and career development. She is a lecturer at Boston-area universities, a sought-after speaker and presenter, the author of numerous articles, blogs, columns and the book, "Personal Branding and Marketing Yourself: The Three Ps Marketing Technique as a Guide to Career Empowerment". She has been a regular contributor for the Chief Learning Officer, Huffington Post and Leadership & Management Books as well as a variety of other publications. Rita brings much human resources experience to her practice, has worked with leaders across all industries and professions and was voted one of the top ten executive coaches by the Boston Women's Business Journal. She currently serves as a board member of The Boston Club as President.

Services

Rita B. Allen Associates offers customized career management consulting and coaching services to individuals and organizations with specialties in a variety of talent management content areas including:

Upcoming Presentations

Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology (WEST)
Managing Conflict Effectively
Semma Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
March 12, 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

MedExec Women
Women on Boards
KPMG, Boston, MA
April 4, 2020

ATD International Conference and EXPO 2020
Accelerate Your Career Through Personal Branding and Marketing Yourself
Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
May 18, 2020