Beth Benatti Kennedy is a leadership and executive coach who helps leaders feel energized and focused while they do their best work. She has worked with leaders at well-known companies such as The Gillette Company, Nike & Converse as well as many non-profit and small businesses, providing leadership and executive coaching and training. She is the author of the book Career ReCharge: Five Strategies to Boost Resilience and Beat Burnout, and she speaks all over the world at conferences and corporations on leadership, resilience and how to avoid burnout so you can enjoy a thriving career and life. On weekends, you’ll find Beth recharging on the yoga mat and having fun with her family and their sweet puppy Maple playing at the beach.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Beth’s Father
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I went part-time at my full-time job and then I started coaching on the side. So it was a lot of time management it was a lot of overcoming a lot of challenges. When you first get started with the coaching business you get a lot of nos and you also have to find out who are your people … I am one of these people who every Monday I would set the goals when I had this part-time coaching business and I was very fortunate that my business with persistence and patience continued and took off and I was able to leave my part-time job and just focus on Benatti training and development”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job Book by Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen and Hile RutledgeFavourite Quote:
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” Henry David Thoreau
Recommended Online Resources:
- Reach – Personal Branding – William Arruda – Career Assessments, books, on-line learning – 360°Reach – Personal Brand Assessment to
- Stop, Breathe & Think – A friendly app to guide people through meditations for mindfulness compassion Download today on IOS, Android or Web!
- Calm is the 1 app for sleep and meditation. Join the millions experiencing better sleep, lower stress, and less anxiety
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“focus on your resilience. So what does that mean? That means I know the to-do list… You have so much on your to-do list but give yourself time even if it’s just 10 minutes every day for your own recharge because you will see the benefits… Focus on your resilience, your well-being, your self-awareness, what your brand is, your connection and make sure you are innovating. Small little, little strategies every week and that will spark your success”…[Listen for More]
More About Beth Benatti Kennedy:
Benatti Training & Development
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill
Other Quotes From the Chat with Beth Benatti Kennedy:
- “one of the biggest mistakes that I made was from the very beginning I try to do everything myself. I was my marketer, I was my you name it, I did it, I develop my PowerPoint slides, I was getting stuff in the newspaper”
- “I think even when you are starting your business, even if you can only budget it every other year make sure you are budgeting money for an investment in yourself. Because if you work for a company companies are going to be investing in you, sending you to training, some people get coaches, some people have great managers but if you are an entrepreneur you have to remember who is developing you. So it is so important, set a budget and make it happen”
- “on a weekly basis think about what your roles are in your career, in your business, in your family and to write them down and to set goals, weekly goals for each of those roles”
- “the most important piece is to figure out how to have that accountability”
- “it’s not just setting goals it’s figuring out what is going to make you accountable”
- “as entrepreneurs we don’t get enough time to understand about our personality type. And I am a firm believer being able to flex your personality type is going to enhance your success”
- “resiliency is about moving forward even though you have challenges”
- “I feel that everyone at some point or another is going to hit a roadblock and we need to take a pause breath and we need to kind of recalibrate and then we need to say what tools do we need whether it’s a coach, whether it’s a book, whether it’s a mentor that can move us forward. But we shouldn’t have to feel stuck in a box. And I think the saddest thing to me is when I see some of the polls on how unhappy people are in their careers and their lives feeling really, really stuck”
- “I do think piece that entrepreneurs forget that is really important is how important again it is to brand ourselves”
- “it’s really important to have the focus so we can be as productive as we need to be to do what I call deep work, to really be strategic”
- “in order for our businesses to be successful we need to really focus internally”
- “I spend time every day to recharge”
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