The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin: Work, Leadership & What’s Next
The Career Refresh is for experienced leaders and ambitious professionals ready for their next era of leadership, whether that means leading with greater influence, stepping into executive leadership, or making a strategic career move. You’ll learn practical leadership and career strategies to think strategically, communicate precisely, delegate effectively, navigate organizational politics, build presence, lead through change and ambiguity, make better decisions, and position yourself for what’s next.
Hosted by Jill Griffin, a leadership strategist with more than 20 years of experience advising senior leaders at Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Samsung, The Federal Reserve, Meta, Google, Hilton Hotels, Notion Labs, plus founder-led organizations. Jill brings practical insight and real-world experience to the challenges leaders face at work and throughout their careers. Leadership has changed. Most leadership advice hasn’t. The next level of leadership is becoming the kind of leader others trust to navigate change, make the call, and move things forward without having to carry it all yourself.
The Career Refresh is a Top 2% globally ranked leadership podcast.
About Your Host
Jill Griffin’s work has been featured on Adam Grant’s WorkLife podcast and published in Forbes, Fast Company, HuffPost, and Metro UK. She has also been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Departures, and Ad Age. Connect with Jill on LinkedIn or learn more at GriffinMethod.com.
The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin: Work, Leadership & What’s Next
Latest Episodes
Stop Proving It. Start Declaring It: How to Communicate Like a Strategic Leader
Being the smartest person in the room doesn’t automatically make you sound like the strategic leader. In this episode, Jill Griffin breaks down the analysis-to-authority gap and why the way you communicate your expertise may be affecting how yo...
Beyond Smart Goals: A More Realistic Way To Make Career Progress
Most career goals depend on more than your effort. You can do everything right and still face a hiring freeze, an internal candidate, or a decision you cannot control. In this episode, Jill introduces the PROGRESS Framework, a more realistic ap...
The Hiring System Is Broken: Why Your Job Search Isn’t Working and What to Do About It
The hiring system has changed, but most job-search advice hasn’t caught up. From ghost jobs and AI screening to algorithms that can repeat bias across employers, there’s more happening between your application and a human than you may realize. ...
Portfolio Careers: Why They're the Future of Work (and How to Start Yours)
A portfolio career is about working smarter. More professionals are combining full-time roles, consulting, advisory work, board positions, teaching, writing, speaking, investing, and passion projects into careers that are more resilient, flexib...
How to Overcome Fear of Failure and Build Career Confidence (Greatest Hits)
What if failure wasn’t something to avoid—but a skill to master? In this episode, I share a fresh take on how to handle setbacks, manage your mind, and turn mistakes into momentum.Why your brain resists failure (and how to outsmart ...