Episode 98: Do you have your wires crossed?

Uncrossing your wires to effectively power your connections to fuel innovation: Friday Coffee Meetup Co-organizer Christy Conner shares how her involvement in Friday Coffee was instrumental in uncrossing her tangled professional wires.

Through the connections that she formed with other members, she gained the ultimate tools in professional innovation, which led her to start a business The Confident Connector™ providing learning materials and a book about how to use connection for its fullest potential.

Christy will share her professional roadmap that she found valuable in moving herself from a shy introvert to an empowered voice in the community. Learn from the myriad lessons she inherited from others to help you uncross your own professional wires. Through one connection at a time, Christy reinvigorated the most important connection of all, her connection with herself. Friday Coffee Meetup was the tool that ultimately empowered her long timid voice to be one of value and purpose. Today, in gratitude, Christy pays those lessons forward for the benefit of others.

Bio:
Christy Conner is a driver of greater Los Angeles's innovative technology arena. She is a co-organizer of Friday Coffee Meetup, the largest active entrepreneurial and tech innovation group in Los Angeles, with more than 6,000 members.

In The Confident Connector™, Christy enthusiastically shares strategies with readers to on how to build strong and authentic relationships. She seamlessly blends her perspective as a natural introvert with powerful techniques to inspire others to move past their fears and build a dynamic network that fulfills their aspirations.

Christy’s professional experience, global interests, and a light backpack have taken her to over fifty countries. Her career spans six business sectors, fourteen companies, and eighteen roles in nine departments. She has taught as an instructor of change management on five continents. It is from this unique vantage point that her grit and empathic leadership has been honed. Utilizing this global perspective coupled with local insights, she writes on leading-edge business topics that help companies work smarter and drive revenue.

She earned her private pilot’s license and went on to obtain a BS in Aviation Business Administration from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She has an MA in International Relations from the University of Southern California (USC).

The Confident Connector™: How to Build Your Must-Have Professional Network in an Era of Job Insecurity

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