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The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin: Career Reinvention, Leadership Coaching, and Professional Brand
The Career Refresh: Career Reinvention, Leadership Coaching, and Professional Brand is for high-performing professionals, executives, and entrepreneurs ready to lead with clarity and courage. Hosted by executive coach and strategist Jill Griffin, this show helps you navigate career transitions, leadership reinvention, and identity shifts with practical tools and bold mindset shifts.
Whether leading a team or stepping into your next chapter, each episode delivers actionable insights on modern leadership, professional branding, team dynamics, and resilience.
About Your Host: Jill Griffin is a leadership strategist, executive coach, and former media executive who helps high-performing professionals pivot and grow with clarity, confidence, and intention. She’s partnered with hundreds of individuals and teams —from boardrooms to small business owners—to navigate reinvention, lead through complexity, and build a career that fits.
Jill has been featured on Adam Grant’s WorkLife podcast and published in Fast Company, HuffPost, and Metro UK. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Departures, and Ad Age have also quoted her expertise. Follow her on LinkedIn and learn more at GriffinMethod.com.
The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin: Career Reinvention, Leadership Coaching, and Professional Brand
From Editor To Owner. How Heather Keets Wright Went From Building Equity For Others To Building Equity and Ownership For Herself
Heather Keets Wright is an editorial veteran who has created enormous success in her career, starting at Time Inc.’s Entertainment Weekly magazine before serving in various editorial roles at Seventeen, TeenPeople.com, MarthaStewart.com, among others. After years of working for top publishing and holding companies, Heather decided to start her own company.
In this episode, we talk about:
- The challenges of being a black woman in media
- How she evolved her journalism skills to become a leader in content marketing
- How she developed a mindset of determination and positivity
- The priceless education she received from black editors
- How supplier diversity in Advertising and Marketing shaped the way she approaches partnerships
- How speaking up about DEI&B inconsistencies created systemic change
- The moment she decided to cease building equity in something that isn't hers.
- Lessons learned from being a certified Black-and-Woman owned business
Show Guest:
Heather Keets Wright, Co-Founder and CEO, Wright Creative Agency
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Upcoming Documentaries from Wright Creative
Show notes:
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Jill Griffin, host of The Career Refresh, delivers expert guidance on workplace challenges and career transitions. Jill leverages her experience working for the world's top brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, and Martha Stewart to address leadership, burnout, team dynamics, and the 4Ps (perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, and personalities).
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- Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
- Build a Leadership Identity That Earns Trust and Delivers Results.
- Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
- Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
- Keynote Speaking
- Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE
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