Today’s guest is the incredible Debra Mathis, founder of E2S Solutions Professional Coaching LLC. She is a professionally trained life and business coach. Debrah transitioned career from contract recruiting/staffing professional in Technology, Healthcare, and Telecom F500 industries to entrepreneur and coach. As a certified Operations JumpStart: First Step facilitator, Debrah focuses on working with transitioning mid-career professionals take the first step to entrepreneur and leadership readiness. She also works with faith-based leaders, existing entrepreneurs, self-employed, business owners and their leadership team become a transformational leader and creating a legacy. Here are some highlights from today’s show:
- She describes herself as an employee-to-entrepreneur transitioner. She supported individuals from staff to executive level and during that time, she found herself to be inclined and strong in recruitment and staffing. She did that for quite some time and she got through the ins and outs of hiring and recruitment. After some time, she found that hiring managers and executives were coming to her for coaching and found herself spending more time coaching than her regular job duties. This is where she started her own entrepreneurial practice.
- Debra now focuses on coaching mid-career individuals who are contemplating entrepreneurship as a new career alternative or those who have been displaced due to the company going to a different direction, etc. and is considering entrepreneurship as an option.
- LinkedIn helps her tremendously. It is a great tool, especially if you are making a transition in your career. For example, if you are leaving a company, you still have in your connections your co-workers and that means you are not totally disconnected from that company. You can then use these connections to continue these contacts to build your network on a more professional scale.
- LinkedIn also helps you identify your target audience as it allows you to look at all the businesses listed and you can decide and plan who you want to reach – whether it is industry focused, company focused or individually focused. LinkedIn can help you strategically plan your ideal prospect and who you are going to market to.
- Donna ascertains that the best thing that has happened to her business since using LinkedIn is expanding the reach of her business through her LinkedIn connections. She says it is critical to her business to understand how the work place functions and how to function at its optimal best. Whether you are a job seeker or someone that is transitioning in your career or you are getting ready to retire – it is all in the way you approach how you want to work.
- LinkedIn helped her expand her thinking and helped her think about how to have a reach, where to reach and how she wants to grow in her business. LinkedIn helped her to have such a diverse connection and reach and she is truly amazed how much it has to offer.
- Donna has also learned how to leverage the publishing tool on LinkedIn. LinkedIn has influencers that you can follow and you can share information about address what your audience’s challenges are, the solutions to those challenges and LinkedIn provides a level playing field when it comes to sharing these types of information.
You can reach Debrah at www.engagetosuccess.com and www.debrahmathis.com and on social media (@EngagetoSuccess) on Twitter and Facebook and on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/debrahmathis). You can also listen to Energy for Success radio podcast which airs every 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 8:00 PM Eastern on Life Coach Radio Network.
