Are you focused on a career transition? Are you stuck in finding new job leads? Do you know what your top five skills are? Do you want to understand how to lead with with your strengths and values? If your answer to all of the questions above is yes this presentation is for you?

1. LEADING WITH YOUR
STRENGTHS
AND VALUES
Presented by Alicia Morgan
STEM/STEAM Education Advocate
K-12 Promotion of Education Honoree

2. + WHO AM I?
 Born and Raised in New Orleans
 Attended Tuskegee University and New Mexico
State University
 Worked at two Fortune 500 Companies
 Nonprofit Leadership- Program Leader at Heart
House Dallas
 Advisory Board Bryan Adams High School
 DCCCD STEM Accelerator Project

3.  Learn “How to Navigate through Unclear” Situations
 Learn ”How to Write An Impactful” Personal Statement
 Understand the importance of knowing your values and principles
 Defining physical, human and social capital and why it’s important for you
 What’s your top five skills and possible industries of interest?
 Next Steps

4.  adjective
 (of language) open to more than one interpretation
 unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made.

6.  per·son·al state·ment
 noun
 noun: personal statement; noun: personal statements
a written description of one's achievements, interests, etc., included as part of an
application for a job or to an educational program.

7.  Human Resource professional with expertise delivering strategic and tactual HR
Programs to support business growth. Areas of expertise include employee relations,
compensation, benefits and staffing.

8.  Product manager with global organizations and smaller entrepreneurial ventures:
increased revenue and innovation in product management, and customer loyalty;
expertise in management consulting/ process improvement and financial analysis.

12.  “44% of respondents cited soft skills, such as communication,
critical thinking, creativity and collaboration, as the area
with the biggest gap in workforce skills.”
Adecco Staffing Company Survey

13.  How do you define value?
 List your top five values and principles you live by
 How can you align your skills with your values?

15. Physical Capital Human Capital Social Capital
What you have What you know Who you know
Finances Experience Relationships
Tangible Assets(factory,
equipment, patents, data)
Education
Skills
Knowledge
Ideas
Network of
Contacts
Friends

16. Cover Letters
That Demonstrate
Your Value

18.  List five skills you know you can do that you have made money from in the past
 You are masterful at these skills
 Notice how basic and applicable these skills are to various industries
 Discern who needs it
 By each skill write down the communities, groups and organizations that need
that skill and will pay you

19.  Engineering Fields
 Nonprofits
 Securing High Education Industry
 Entrepreneurs
 CEO Roundtables
 College Prep Industry
 Organization Industry
 Time Management Industry
 Tech and Web Design Industry
 Social Media
 Copywriting Industry
 Program Management
BENEFIT

20. Grav·i·tas
ˈɡravəˌtäs/
noun: gravitas
dignity, seriousness, or
solemnity of manner.”
synonyms: dignity,
seriousness, solemnity,
gravity,
More authority, weightiness

21.  Refine the list of your values and select the best one to two you want to add in
your personal statement
 Build stronger relationships and understand how your human capital(skills) adds
value to others increasing your social capital
 Create a cover letter example using my skills and qualifications example
 Let’s Connect
 Be Confident, Be Creative, Be You