Disrupt Your Career

Tayo Rockson: How to Connect, Communicate and Build a Career in a Cross-Cultural World

March 01, 2023 Claire Harbour and Antoine Tirard Season 1 Episode 42
Disrupt Your Career
Tayo Rockson: How to Connect, Communicate and Build a Career in a Cross-Cultural World
Show Notes

Tayo Rockson is a writer, speaker, consultant, podcaster, professor, co-founder and brand strategist at UYD Management, a strategic consulting firm. As the son of a diplomat, he grew up understanding the nuances of multicultural diversity while living on four continents. He is the host of the podcast As Told by Nomads, author of Use Your Difference To Make A Difference, a professor at the Imperial College Business School and has spoken at TEDx, the Chautauqua Institution, and the United Nations.

We talk with Tayo about the pivots and changes in his extraordinary career and the lessons he learned along the way, how he manages his portfolio of activities, his advice to early career professionals, why he wrote Use Your Difference to Make a Difference and what are the main ideas from his book, his insights about why and how to make career pivots, examples of organizations that are progressing when it comes to talent and career management, what he would like to change about the world of work, and his most exciting projects for the future.  


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