Episode #358
The Great Resignation stems from employers neglecting holistic well-being and a broken childcare system—disproportionately pushing women, especially women of color, out of the workforce—while younger workers prioritize balance over burnout.
Quitting can be the right choice when environments are toxic or misaligned; assess your reasons, protect your mental health, recognize you have more power and options than you think, and seek mentors, sponsors, and community support.
Leadership lessons: don’t stay in a misfit culture, set boundaries and speak up, follow through on compensation and recognition, and use authentic conversations to retain talent—then reflect and learn from failures to become more resilient.
They don't want to live to work. They want to work to live.
failure won't kill you.
But you have more power than you know.
Christine Spadafor is a lecturer on Strategic Leadership at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School.
She is an experienced public and private company board director with deep expertise in risk management, regulatory compliance, ESG, and DEI.
This Mercyhurst University Board of Trustees member has a demonstrated track record leading successful large-scale transformational initiatives at the intersection of strategy, operations, finance, and change management in domestic and global markets.
She also has worked extensively as a Board of Directors advisor to Fortune 500 C-suite executives.
In this episode, we get into Christine’s experience with success and failure as a CEO and as a woman in the male-dominated corporate world. We’ll also delve into The Great Resignation— what is it and what are the specific, practical, and actionable tactics you can use to manage your career in this phenomenon? Tune in now!
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