“And so now I encourage all leaders to assume the role of pilot and not copilot. And if you determine it is time for you to move up, then you either move up internally or externally, but do not put that power in anyone else's hands.”
— Dr. Karen Hills Pruden [00:04:06 → 00:04:21]

“She shared with me later that she was just scared. She was scared to share with me that she didn't have her finances in order to retire and so she had changed her mind.”
— Dr. Karen Hills Pruden [00:05:44 → 00:05:55]

“Sometimes not talking about it and thinking it will resolve itself, the situation won't. Because with a lack of narrative, the other party is going to put their spin, their narrative on it, and it often will end up much worse because we start to stew on those things.”
— Annemarie Cross [00:07:57 → 00:08:14]

“Sometimes brevity is your friend and so, yeah, notes, keep it brief, you know, make try to be non-emotional, with it. That's helpful, so that you can get the information that you are seeking.”
— Dr. Karen Hills Pruden [00:09:51 → 00:10:02]

“So often we spend far more time planning our holidays than we did about planning our careers. And I think this is a beautiful example too, which can be very relevant to our taking control of our careers rather than letting opportunities to come to us.”
— Annemarie Cross [00:10:53 → 00:11:11]

“I believe visibility creates opportunity. No one knows your full breadth of your competencies. A lot of times people identify you with your current position. They don't know about the skill sets that you bring to an organization or to a role from your prior work, and the only way that they're going to know that is by you raising your hand doing different situations and volunteering to be part of committees.”
— Dr. Karen Hills Pruden [00:11:47 → 00:12:12]

“I think many of us have incredible experiences, expertise, qualifications that can bring so much more to the table, yet we're keeping them hidden because we think I don't wanna be seen as overqualified or knowing too much or whatever it might be.”
— Annemarie Cross [00:13:27 → 00:14:21]

“When I tried to get positions, that did not require travel, a lot of those positions I was overqualified for, and I was overlooked because I was so overqualified.”
— Dr. Karen Hills Pruden [00:15:32 → 00:15:43]

“I served as an involuntary leader pretty much once I was hired because that's the only way I knew how to operate was to mentor and coach individuals, and different things like that.”
— Dr. Karen Hills Pruden [00:17:14 → 00:17:25]

“Your reputation is what are people saying about you in terms of the problem that you solve, and that's whether you're in or outside of the room, because that is what people are going to be thinking about in terms of additional opportunities, promotion, hiring your business if you're an entrepreneur and so what is that reputation?”
— Dr. Karen Hills Pruden [00:19:42 → 00:21:03]

“A lot of those ancillary conversations with co-workers outside of the workplace, that's how people get to know you beyond the surface relationship, you know, and you get to find out about commonalities, you know, things that you have in common.”
— Dr. Karen Hills Pruden [00:21:24 → 00:21:35]

“If you work for someone else, then you need to be but you need to be able to create a metric so you can see the movement of it. Are you going in the right direction? Do you need to tweak anything? Do you need to allocate more time towards this, more money or upgrade your systems?”
— Dr. Karen Hills Pruden [00:26:40 → 00:26:54]