[Music] welcome back this will be the first week of our leadership training on building the bridge to claim your seat and if you remember during the master class key number one is to own your vision and unique value this is the week where together we're going to put a pin on the map what is your personal brand and what is your leadership vision and your primary challenges Because unless we know what that is we will be spiraling spinning our Wheels wasting our energy and valuable time and instead we want to start from a place of strength we want to identify the health of your personal brand and how uniquely you contribute to the workplace because that's going to give you confidence it's going to help you to develop relationships when you know your unique value and you can share it with your centers of influence Network which we're going to discuss soon and this is how we build a solid foundation so you are operating daily from a place of strength and avoid all the self-doubt so this is how we start from a place of strength because when you're able to articulate your value and share it with your your network of allies you begin to create opportunities and that's where we're going with all of this we can't claim our next leadership seat if we're not doing the things that we're going to learn in this bridge to claim your seat Sprint so let's talk next about what is your vision as a leader and before we do that let me share with you what it meant for me to own my vision and unique value when I came to this country as an immigrant who didn't speak English my vision back then was to break the cycle of poverty to become a professional woman and I knew I had so many challenges ahead of me I had to learn the language I had to build a circle of friends I didn't have anyone I left them all behind in Dominican Republic and I also had to learn about the culture that also meant I if I wanted to be a professional women I needed to pass High School get out of high school and then get into a college where I could study I found that throughout the years my education has been my Gateway out of poverty and for you I'm sure that you have been through your own experiences that have gotten you where you are today that my friends needs to become a source of Pride and a source of strength so that you see yourself instead of being a victim as a Victor and that would make a huge difference in how you approach your life personally and how how you approach your leadership career so let's make sure that we are building a solid foundation and that that Vision that you have today is going to support you in becoming the leader and the human that you want to be so after I became a quote unquote professional woman who graduated from my fouryear school with a computer science and economics degree I then set my sights on becoming a leader the kind of leader that I saw I had in Steve strap Niki who was my manager at the time and I began to reverse engineer my vision which is what we're going to do together so that I could become that leader that I aspired to be that couldn't happen in isolation so having a vision of where you're going is essential for you to create anything in this world for you to be Innovative to for you to be resourceful and to have the courage to take that next step and to address the fears and the challenges and obstacles and hurdles and sometimes the boulders that get in the way that's the significance and the why behind owning your vision and unique value and we're going to talk about your unique value proposition because that is how you define yourself as the only person who's qualified to do what you do because no one will have your superpowers your marketable skills and also your why for doing what you do all right so with that let's go right into our training [Music]