Corporate Navigation - Charting your Success

About the Book

Corporate Navigation - Charting Your Success is designed to help readers understand the importance of preparing for success after they’ve landed their corporate dream job. It prepares young adults to embrace the real world, build self-confidence, enhance awareness, and promote personal and professional growth and achievement.

Using an easy-to-read format, which is my trademark, Corporate Navigation - Charting Your Success empowers young adults in the corporate workforce with knowledge and important life skills necessary to successfully and responsibly evolve into a life of independence, and to make meaningful contributions to their communities. As an energetic and goal-oriented young adult, you need the right tools to make the most of your corporate experience to achieve your career goals in an ever-changing world. Corporate Navigation - Charting Your Success offers straight talk and gives practical strategies for success both in and out of the workplace. It will support your professional development and help you strive for success. Specially, this guide will give you practical advice and guidance on:

 Maximizing your time and increasing productivity;

 Building bonds and mutually beneficial relationships;

 Mastering the art of business etiquette;

 Building a solid financial portfolio;

 Balancing performance and politics;

 Leveraging cultural diversity;

 Managing work and life balance

And most of all:

 Ensuring professional growth and longevity in the corporate workforce.

Corporate Navigation – Charting Your Success introduces and demonstrates the necessity for strong business skills needed to succeed in the business world, regardless of the field or profession being pursued. Being able to share my experiences, lessons learned, and personal career techniques with college students and those entering the professional workforce is a motivating factor in my life. At the end of each chapter, I will share real life examples and personal moments specific to the topic to show you how the circle of life really works.

About the Author

La Shawn Kelley is currently employed by the federal government as the Chief, Human Capital Management Office for a component of the Department of Defense. Having worked in both the private and public sectors for over twenty years, and having graduated from a Historically Black College, she intimately understands the challenges and barriers young adults, especially minority young adults, will face in this very competitive job market. As a mentor with over twenty plus years of experience, she has spoken to students and conducted workshops at several colleges and universities across the nation on the art of being successful in the corporate workforce.

Ms. Kelley holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Claflin University (Orangeburg, SC) and a Master of Arts degree from George Mason University (Fairfax, VA). She was an active member of the Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) for nearly ten years. BEEP targets Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Minority Serving Institutions and provides opportunities for senior professionals to give back to the community by sharing their experiences about the demands and expectations of the corporate work force.

Ms. Kelley has navigated through her professional career with a positive attitude and views herself as a “glass is half-full” kind of person. She firmly believes that people with a positive attitude will see and find opportunities that others simply will not. One of her favorite quotes is by Cadet Maxim: “Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.”

Ms. Kelley is a native of Florence, SC where she graduated from West Florence High School. She currently lives in northern Virginia with her family. Ms. Kelley is a motivational speaker who believes in the power of having a positive attitude and outlook on life. While writing is her passion, Ms. Kelley also enjoys reading a variety of books, traveling around the world to as many secluded islands as possible, and cooking a variety of specialty recipes for her husband and biggest fan, Andre. Ms. Kelley is in the process of finalizing a series of children’s books, working on completing her first cookbook, and trying her hand at either a novel or screenplay. This is her second published book.

Ms. Kelley values and welcomes your feedback. Please email your comments to dre1car1@netzero.net.