"Cultivating Your Success Platform: Emotional Intelligence"

Guest: Jodie Charlop, Emotional Intelligence Expert; We’ll discuss: *The definition and characteristics of emotional intelligence *The importance of building your emotional intelligence in the workplace, and in life *Developing and raising emotional intelligence levels *Takeaway techniques to implement emotional intelligence enhancement immediately >Jodie has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and professional settings, along with advanced study in psychology and human behavior. Her professional coaching and consulting experience includes Fortune 500 and high-growth public companies, pre-IPO start up ventures, professional services, government agencies and educational institutions. As founder of Potential Matters, Inc., she built a thriving private coaching practice focused on helping professionals and emerging leaders proactively traverse the natural opportunities and barriers in developing a career that matters across the professional life span. In addition to serving a diverse private and corporate client base, she also successfully launched a professional development and career strategy coaching program serving both 10+ year alumni and university stakeholders for the Emory University Alumni Association. Jodie works with both executives and emerging leaders, and especially enjoys working with new leaders who want to effectively transform from producer to leader. She takes a whole brain approach to expanding leadership agility -- combining thinking styles + emotional intelligence. She has also deep insight and understanding of the complexity of power and politics in the workplace, and enjoys helping leaders navigate power and politics with authentic integrity. Currently she is co-developing audience-specific modules in the functional areas of information technology, finance and diverse cross-functional service teams.