The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin: Executive Leadership & Career Strategy
The Career Refresh is a podcast on executive leadership, career strategy, and professional development for high-performing professionals navigating growth, career transitions, and workplace complexity.
Hosted by executive coach and leadership strategist Jill Griffin, the show explores leadership development, decision-making, career clarity, team leadership, and navigating uncertainty in high-pressure environments.
Each episode delivers practical insight on strategic thinking, career growth, professional positioning, and modern leadership skills that hold up in real-world systems.
Whether you're stepping into executive leadership, managing change, considering a career pivot, or strengthening your leadership capacity, this podcast offers grounded, actionable guidance for the new era of Leadership.
About Your Host
Jill Griffin is an executive coach and leadership strategist with 20+ years leading growth at global brands and startups. She works with high-performing leaders to strengthen decision-making, increase leadership capacity, and navigate career growth with clarity and intention.
Her expertise in executive leadership, team performance, and career strategy has been featured on Adam Grant’s WorkLife podcast and published in 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: Executive Leadership & Career Strategy
Serial Marketer, not Killer with David Berkowitz
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David Berkowitz is a serial marketer and has woven his experience as an employee, freelancer, and business owner into a successful career. In this episode, we talk about how David:
- Pivoted from cookie-cutter roles and was able to harness his experiences to create custom roles
- Continually flexed his skills in fresh ways
- Used his experience as a consumer and end-user to reverse engineer what marketers need to know
- Used a journalistic eye to keep his take on trends realistic and actionable
- Appreciates the importance of mentors, leadership, PR, and communications professionals
- Believes marketers need marketers and why he started the Serial Marketer Community
- Used his strengths and intuition to refresh his career continually
Episode Guest:
David Berkowitz founded the Serial Marketers community and the FOAF network for fraction-of-a-fractional CXO consultants. Previously, he held marketing and strategy leadership roles with omnichannel ad tech platform Mediaocean, video production marketplace Storyhunter, social listening firm Sysomos, Publicis agency MRY, and Dentsu agency 360i. He has contributed more than 600 columns to outlets such as Advertising Age, MediaPost, VentureBeat, and Adweek, and he has spoken at more than 400 events globally. He lives in midtown Manhattan with one daughter and two cats.
Show notes:
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Fraction of a Fraction www.foaf.pro
Thanks to Aaron Strout, CMO of Real Chemistry, for the episode title.
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).
Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:
- Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
- Build a Leadership Identity That Earns Trust and Delivers Results.
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- Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
- Keynote Speaking
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