Driven by Intention: Own Your Purpose, Gain Power, and Pursue Your Passion as a Woman at Work [Hardcover]

A game-changing guide for women who want to transform the way they work and create their own successfrom an award-winning global diversity expert.

Ambition alone will only take you but so far. Without a plan, however, you're left with blind ambition and that won't necessarily take you where you want to go.

In this groundbreaking book by diversity, workplace culture, and career building expert Michelle Gadsden-Williams, youll discover how much more usefuland rewardingit is to cultivate an intentional mindset.

Deeply inspiring and eminently practical,Driven by Intentionshows how intention is about so much more than simply setting goals: its figuring out why we choose what we want to do and how we get this done in order to seamlessly execute and achieve our passions. Simply put, intention is the secret sauce of realizing your visionat home, at work, or wherever you have passions worth pursuing.

Gadsden-Williams combines years of professional experience with research-based insights, proven strategies, and effective exercises to provide the tools you need to get started, in chapters that include:

• Setting Intentions vs Setting Goals
• Strengthening Your Squad
• Defining Your Meaning by Impact
• Transforming Company Culture
• Leveraging Your Prized Assets
• Managing Your Financial Life
• Men as Allies for Female Leaders

Filled with practical steps to take now and how to reimagine what comes next,Driven by Intentionis an effective blueprint for success and the profiles of twelve highly accomplished women (and one executive chairman who is a male ally) that drive the lessons home. Youll find relatable strategies and tactics embedded in their storiesfrom women who had to forge their own paths, faced uncertainty or incredible odds and still managed to rise above it all, and establish uber successful careers for themselves. Women such as Mellody Hobson, presilóµ