Beliveau-Dunn Jeanne - Im the boss of me a guide to owning your career

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A Guide to Owning Your Career

Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn
with Marilyn R. Freedman

2017 by Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn

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First Printing July 2016

ISBN-10: 1-58720-432-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-432-6

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To the many parents, educators, counselors, and
psychologists who have dedicated their lives to
helping family and others achieve, succeed, and find
their way through lifes choices and challenges.

There is no higher purpose than helping your family and others you care about achieve, succeed, and find their way through lifes choices and challenges. I learned this truth first from my mother, whothrough troubled times and easier timesalways made me feel loved, valued, and important. She set the stage for my success by showing me how to get back up when life knocks you down and by demonstrating resilience throughout my childhood.

Ive lived this truth with my husband, who has been the source of great strength for me throughout the past 30 years. His unquestionable love and acceptance of me for everything I am and am not has given me the confidence to put my own truth out there for others to read. He has been my advisor, my partner in exploring the richness of life, and my best friend.

I deeply appreciate the support and teamwork of the staff at Cisco Press and Pearson North America. I owe a debt of gratitude to Dave Dusthimer, associate publisher until he retired in early 2016, for seeing potential in the book I wanted to write and having patience while I worked to flesh out the ideas. I also thank Mary Beth Ray, executive publisher, for taking on the project after Dave retired, for her encouragement while we finalized the manuscript, for facilitating the production process, and for her marketing savvy. Project editors Mandie Frank and Ellora Sengupta made producing the book in record time look like a 5k stroll when in reality it was a marathon race. I thank them for their professionalism and expertise.

Last, but not least, I want to acknowledge my writer, Marilyn Freedman, who has taken the journey herself through writing this book with me. She has given me the gift of structure and context for the book from a readers point of view.

Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn is a recognized thought leader on the workforce of the future and an expert in education, the social enterprise, and knowledge systems. As an expert in the workforce of the future, she consults and presents to business and government leaders across the globe. She was recognized as one of The 2015 Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Council, which features the most influential female executive leadership across Americas leading corporations.

During her more than 20-year career with Cisco, Jeanne brought the first social education system in the industry (The Cisco Leaning Network) to market in 2008. In 2015, while finishing this book, she founded The Internet of Things Talent Consortium to empower and accelerate a more agile workforce in the digital economy.

At Cisco, Jeannes work is best described as helping customers and partners be successful, creating capabilities and innovative new services and solutions, moving through disruptive changes in technology, identifying new market opportunities, and helping others to disrupt business models and create growth opportunities. In other words, shes on a crusade to move the entire technology industry forward.

But she doesnt want to stop with the industry. Jeanne has a passion for mentoring people. This book is her way of doing that at scale. Her philosophy of self-empowerment and love fuels her professional and personal calling to help people develop themselves and their careers, work together, collaborate, innovate, and be better together.

Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn is Vice President and GM at Cisco Systems, where she leads several businesses including education. She is president and chairman of the Internet of Things Talent Consortium. She also serves on a number of advisory boards for organizations committed to continuous learning and talent. She lives in Northern California with her husband, Larry, and their four-legged furry child, Hunter.

Since 2008, I have been coaching, advising, and speaking to thousands of people on the topic of reinventing yourself. At one of these events, I asked the audience, How many of you are working in something you are truly passionate about and are happy in your career? Less than 20 percent of the people in the room raised their hands, and they did so tentatively. After confirming this at other events and with a number of professional coaches, I realized I wanted to do something to help, and I began to outline and write this book.

This book is inspired by my belief that your career and your life are yours to own. Why let life and work manage you? You can be the boss of you by making empowering decisions for yourself that have you working on things you love and that keep you motivated. Being the boss of you means taking a self-directed approach to managing your life and career and being planful, thoughtful, and inspired to achieve your true potential.