The Career Refresh with Jill Griffin: Leadership Strategy for Senior Professionals
Leadership has changed. Most advice hasn't.
If you're a high performing leader who's overfunctioning, absorbing everyone else's pressure, and still not feeling like things are moving, the issue isn't effort. It's the model.
The Career Refresh is for executives and senior professionals ready to lead differently. Less reactive. More deliberate. With the capacity to navigate complexity without losing yourself in the process.
Hosted by executive coach and leadership strategist Jill Griffin, each episode explores what it actually takes to lead when the stakes are high, the systems are messy, and certainty is in short supply, helping you move from exhausted and overextended to clear, strategic, and stable under pressure.
This is Next Era Leadership.
About Your Host
Jill Griffin is an executive coach and leadership strategist with 20+ years leading growth at global brands including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Hilton Hotels. She works with senior leaders, executives, teams, and organizations navigating high-stakes moments, helping them expand leadership capacity, navigate complex systems, and lead without losing their identity in the process.
Her 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: Leadership Strategy for Senior Professionals
Effort Versus Progress and Why You May Not Be Seeing Results
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Effort and progress are not interchangeable. Effort is good. It is where we must start. But if we are not making progress we need to rethink our approach. In this episode, I discuss:
- The difference between effort vs progress
- How to think about output vs outcomes in your performance
- Artificial Maturity and how it negatively affects us
- Why rethinking failure is the key to progress
Mentioned on the show:
Artificial Maturity, by Dr. Tim Elmore
I referenced OKRs, from the book, Measure What Matters, By John Doerr
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Jill Griffin, is a leadership strategist, executive coach, and host of The Career Refresh. She works with senior leaders to navigate complexity, strengthen teams, and lead with greater clarity and intention.
With 20+ years of experience at companies like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, Jill brings a practical, real-world lens to leadership, decision-making, and career strategy.
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