The Goddess of Go-Getting: Your Guide to Confidence, Leadership, and Workplace Success - Hardcover

Kakati-Shah, Rita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0228870208 ISBN 13: 9780228870203

Publisher: Tellwell Talent, 2022

Synopsis

With more than 25 years of experience in business, strategy, and empowering others, and as a recognized thought-leader and sought-after international speaker, Rita takes us through her life journey and childhood experiences of growing up in London as a second-generation Assamese girl, to becoming one of the first women on Goldman Sachs' equities trading floor in London, to spearheading business development in global CNS drug development, to becoming a multi award-winning entrepreneur with the founding of Uma.

With plenty of anecdotes, stories, and examples, The Goddess of Go-Getting(TM) offers a unique insight into Rita's illustrious career as a successful businesswoman and entrepreneur, highlighting the importance of confidence, communication, and ownership in that process.

The Goddess of Go-Getting tells the compelling story of Rita's journey with candor and authority as she calls for policy and societal changes that support the backbone of the economy.

About this title

About the Author

RITA KAKATI-SHAH is a multi-award-winning gender, diversity, inclusion, and career strategist, advisor to Fortune 500 companies, author, and TV show host. With over 25 years of experience in finance, healthcare, and strategic consulting, Rita founded Uma, an international diversity and inclusion coaching, consulting, and corporate training platform that empowers confidence, inspires success, and builds leadership and resilience in women and minorities around the world. Rita began her career at Goldman Sachs in London, where she was awarded the Excellence in Citizenship and Diversity Award. After a decade in finance, she went on to lead Business Development globally in CNS healthcare. She is also a Distinguished Alumna of King's College London, serves on the King's Business School Advisory Council, and is a three-time winner of the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Rita is also an honoree of the President's Lifetime Achievement Award from US President Joe Biden, as well as recipient of multiple international awards in recognition of advancing gender equality, diversity and inclusion, and empowering women, girls, and youth around the world. A highly sought-after international speaker and guest lecturer at academic institutions and global policy forums, Rita's thought leadership has been featured in multiple international media platforms and publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, Fox News, CBS News, and Fast Company.

From the Inside Flap

RITA KAKATI-SHAH is a renowned thought leader who helps corporations attract, retain, and develop previously marginalized or overlooked pools of talented employees. As a successful finance professional Rita personally experienced what it was like to navigate the workforce as a woman of color. Her experiences in that area were helpful when she hit an equally pervasive obstacle: that of returning to paid work after raising her children.

As a result of hearing about similar experiences of other individuals who faced a variety of obstacles in returning to or thriving within the workplace, Rita developed Uma, an international strategic coaching, consulting, and training platform that empowers confidence, inspires success, and builds leadership and resilience in women and minorities through diversity, inclusion, and retention strategies.

Rita began to work with numerous groups of minority employees: returning veterans, mothers returning to paid work after having children, new fathers who struggled with taking paternity leaves, women looking to reach senior leadership, people of different races, life circumstances and backgrounds, including C-Suite men and senior leadership who just couldn't retain their employees—all of whom offered valuable skills to their workplace but often weren't able to contribute as best as they could due to lack of flexibility, confidence, perception, bias, or decency. Rita focuses her coaching and corporate training on building confidence and taking ownership, while learning how to communicate concisely, negotiate wisely, and thereby developing a strong sense of belonging.

It turns out that corporations recognize that more employees than not at some point in their lives face a life situation that requires a level of flexibility, understanding, and decency from their employer, and that employers who allow for such flexibility enjoy a strong, supportive workplace culture that allows corporations to best attract, retain, and develop new hires and current employees.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0228870208
• ISBN 13: 9780228870203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 194