How healthy is your network? Is it time to level up? Trick question - it's always a good time to nurture and expand your network. Given that roughly 65% of jobs never make it to a formal job posting, your network can keep your career on track. In this session, Cristina will share her proven formula for assessing, expanding, and utilizing your business network to serve your goals and discover your potential mentor and/or sponsor to level up your professional success!
**Please note - Untapped Leaders sessions are currently dedicated to BIPOC-identifying participants.
This session will address the following questions:
Why is networking important?
What do you mean by my network is my net worth?
Untapped Leaders brings together Black, Indigenous, Latinx/a/o, Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, MENA and otherwise marginalized leaders from across industries to learn from each other through weekly facilitated leadership workshops and small-group peer coaching sessions, plus a diverse network of members committed to each others’ success.
About Cristina
Cristina is on a mission to empower people of color with the opportunity, mindset, professional skills and confidence to succeed. She is the Founder of Cristina Costa Coaching where she offers career coaching to job seekers, career transitioners and entrepreneurs. Cristina also offers diversity, equity and inclusion and human resources training to organizations across the technology, nonprofit and higher education industries. She also serves as a Community Manager at Larnell Vickers Enterprises, where she is building The Career Journey -- a supportive community for underserved career transitioners along their professional journeys.
Previously, Cristina was a Diversity Recruiter at Google Cloud where she sourced, hired and trained diverse talent. During her time at Google, she also led the Cloud Culture Team by providing DEI programming to the organization. She also served as the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Women With Purpose, an organization in Boston that provides professional development training, workshops and training to women of color. Cristina is a Latina born and raised in Boston and is an outspoken advocate and speaker who works towards equity and inclusion for all.