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November 19th, 2025

Career Advice For Difficult Times From 5 Women Leaders

  1. Career Advice For Difficult Times From 5 Women Leaders Joan Michelson 36:24

“Your job isn’t to know the answer. Your job is to ask all the right questions of where the business is going and…Don’t be afraid…(Align) with people who could see the possibility of (your) experience…Take that stretch job and just remember you’re in the room to ask different questions, and that’s perfectly fine. So, take the stretch and then lean into your experience that allows you to have a different lens and a different perspective.”

Mandi McReynolds, Chief Sustainability Officer at Workiva on Electric Ladies Podcast

When the Economy feels tough or you feel like things are spiraling, it’s a good time to remember that you have agency. You can control what you think about, focus on and even your Emotions – yes, you can. This is one of our periodic career collage episodes with valuable reminders from five extraordinary women who were interviewed on Electric Ladies Podcast over the past year.

Listen up and let us know what resonates with you, texting it to us @joanmichelson on social media.

You’ll hear advice from:

· Ann Canela, Head of Niagara Cares and Director of Corporate Giving at Niagara Bottling, the largest bottler in the U.S.

· Mandi McReynolds, Chief Sustainability Officer at software conglomerate Workiva.

· Silvia Bastante de Unverhau, of LGT Private Bankers International, including on how women see and allocate their wealth.

· Yvonne Burton, President of Burton Consulting International, focused on Technology and international relations.

· Page Motes, Chief Compliance and Sustainability Officer at Hertz on the reinvention of the car rental business, including with a focus on sustainability.

Read Joan’s Forbes piece on Career Advice For Difficult Times, and more of her articles here.

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Joan Michelson Electric Ladies Podcast - Innovation, Energy, Climate, Careers

Joan Michelson, MBA is a highly accomplished business leader and award-winning strategic social impact and ESG – environment, social, governance – leader, who drove breakthrough results at Chrysler (in EVs), American Express and Deloitte, small businesses, and government agencies. She is an instructor on ESG issues to professionals, leaders and board members across industries. Her specialties include leveraging ESG solutions and partnerships strategically for maximum benefit, helping organizations recruit innovative, diverse women, and helping these women thrive in their careers. She is based in the Washington D.C. area.

Joan is also an accomplished journalist who has worked with top media organizations and hosts and produces the acclaimed Electric Ladies podcast (formerly known as Green Connections Radio), about innovation and leadership in energy-, climate- and sustainability-related issues across industries, featuring women experts.

She writes regularly for Forbes on these issues and has also been in the Harvard Business Review, HuffPost, TheAtlantic.com, Greenbiz, The New Economy magazine (distributed at the World Economic Forum), New Thinking magazine, regional business journals; and various other media. She coproduced segments with CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” ABC News, and “The Crusaders,” and television specials on NBC.

Joan has spent her career working in energy-sustainability-climate-ESG issues and in marketing communications, including as head of communications and co-leader of the sales and marketing team of Chrysler’s Global Electric Motorcars (GEM), driving “best year ever” growth and significantly accelerated the adoption of electric vehicles. Prior to GEM, she led marketing communications efforts to high-net-worth and high-visibility clients in management consulting-financial services companies Deloitte and American Express. She's a native of NYC and has a BA from UCLA, an MBA from Baruch College at City University of NY, and post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School, The New School and The Aspen Institute, among others. She has a Sustainability and ESG certification from Competent Boards.