Count Me In
Description
One woman's story of career, leadership, and family
Discover what is holding you back from the career you were meant to have, the promotion you didn't receive, and the risk you were afraid to accept.
Count Me In is the memoir of the trailblazer, Susan Allen-a global leader and one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women. She shares her deeply personal and professional leadership journey (including all her wrong turns), answering the question she's heard the most from young women:
"How did you do it?"
If you feel stuck in the talent pipeline at your company, suffer from imposter syndrome or perfectionism, or wish to achieve better work-life balance, Count Me In is for you.
Susan's journey to the top gives professional women the opportunity to learn strategies to:
- ask for a promotion and accept you have earned it,
- avoid risk averse behaviours that limit your growth and potential,
- acknowledge and kick mom guilt to the curb, and
- overcome life's inevitable setbacks.
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Content
Prologue
Part I: The Influencers
- The Early Years
- For the Love of Dance (and Learning to Fail)
- Hard Work: Does it Always Pay Off?
Part II: Setting a Course
- Working to Live or Living to Work?
- Trauma, Growth, and Renewal
- Survive to Thrive
- The Decision to Stay
Part III: Motherhood: Learning to Troubleshoot
- Everything Changes
- Managing the Impossible
Part IV: Learning to Expect the Unexpected
- Saying 'Yes' to Stretch
- How Priorities are Set (What Matters Most)
- Bring Him Home
Part V: Taking a Risk or Staying Comfortable
- Daring to Say it Out Loud
- Accepting the Challenge
Part VI: The Transformation
- Do you know the way to ... Silicon Valley?
- My Rise and the Tech Collapse
- Canadian, eh?
Part VII: Blazing a Trail to Pay it Forward
- Putting Your Hand Up - Be All In!
- Risk and the Matter of Perspectives
- Making a Difference: Retaining more Women in the Workplace
- Making a Difference: Promoting more Women in the Workplace
- Men: The Final Piece of the Puzzle
Part VIII: Completeness
- Global Enrichment
- Reflections of Life in the Present Lane
Afterword
