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The New Job SecurityThe 5 Best Strategies for Taking Control of Your Career
Pam Lassiter, Lassiter Consulting
Louise Burnham Packard, Executive Director, Trinity Boston Foundation
Topic: Management
Your job security, either in your current job or in the one you’re planning, is about to take a leap
forward. Pam Lassiter, President of the global career management firm, Lassiter Consulting, will
bring you the latest news from her research on career management trends as presented in The New
Job Security- the 5 Best Strategies for Taking Control of Your Career. Her book on these strategies
has been awarded the Editor’s Choice designation by CareerJournal.com, the Wall Street Journal’s
career website.
Lassiter’s approach places job security right into the hands of you, the philanthropy professional who
is actively managing your career. Job security is alive and well. It’s just that the location has moved.
It has shifted from the company’s control to yours. If you master these career skills now, they will
serve you well both when you are in transition and when you want to grow within your current
organization. Career management is a lifetime skill.
In the presentation, you’ll choose a subset of these areas for a “deep dive”:
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Clearly communicate so people remember you
Motivate decision makers to respond
Grow when there are no relevant job openings
Build networks that are interactive and sustainable
Give employers a way to say “yes” during negotiations
Come to hear about building your own job security and leave with new ideas that will help you be
successful today and tomorrow.
Biographies:
Pam Lassiter connects people with meaningful work. Author of The New Job Security, a Wall Street
Journal award winning book, she is principal of Lassiter Consulting, a firm that provides career
transition programs and coaching to companies and individuals worldwide. As a consultant in career
management for over thirty years, Lassiter works with senior level professionals who are developing
satisfying work in their current organization or are considering a career transition. Lassiter teaches
“Career Leadership” at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education and coaches senior
professionals in her private, global practice. She is a coach for Harvard Business School Executive
Education and has taught in “Charting Your Course,” a re-entry program, since its inception. Her
clients include Fortune 100 companies as well as non-profits including MIT, Princeton, and
University of California Berkeley-Haas. Through leading ExecuNet in New England, Lassiter has
helped thousands of professionals to improve their career management, networking and negotiation
skills. Lassiter is a Trustee and Chair of the Overseers at the Museum of Science in Boston and
serves on their Executive Campaign Committee as well as earlier assignments on their Annual
Giving and Capital Campaign Committees. She has served on the Stewardship Committees of major
non-profits and works with her clients and the Corporate Board Committee of the Boston Club to
coach professionals to obtain seats on non-profit and public boards. Lassiter earned her
undergraduate degree from the University of Texas in English/Spanish and her Master's degree from
Boston University in psychological counseling with specific graduate coursework in career
development and business management.
Louise is the founding executive director of the Trinity Boston Foundation, having previously held
senior development roles at Trinity Church, Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School and
the Central Park Conservancy (NY). Early in her career she served as associate director of
undergraduate admissions at Yale University. Louise was a featured speaker in a 2011 lecture
series on Social Entrepreneurship at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco and contributed a
chapter for the ensuing book, The Real Problem Solvers; Social Entrepreneurs in America (Stanford
University Press). Louise received her BA from Yale University and an MA in English Literature from
Middlebury College. She is currently on the boards of Roxbury Presbyterian Social Impact Center,
SEED-NY, and Positive Coaching Alliance (Boston Chapter).