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If you want to learn more on the job and be developed, personally and professionally, you are not alone. 87% of millennials say development is important in their job, yet many organizations can't provide customized, meaningful development to their employees. Forward-thinking professionals of all ages and all levels know that having a mindset of learning helps you to stay relevant, innovative, and creating at the top of your game. So, instead of waiting for others to provide opportunities for professional growth, you can create your own -- immediately. In The Conscious Professional, Jessica Hartung outlines the micro-identity shifts that turn work into a learning laboratory--helping to build the leadership capacity needed to solve our workplace's and world's most challenging problems. Jessica's unique approach utilizes ""real-time leadership development,"" using actual work challenges as the case study to grow new levels of leadership and develop ourselves personally and professionally to achieve what matters most--both on and off the job. Written for mission-driven leaders at all levels, The Conscious Professionaldemonstrates how the next great change in work will not be a technological jump or an engagement initiative, but a leap in human mindfulness, self-directed development, and intentional collaboration.

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""Leaders today and in the future will be focused on how to be--how to develop quality, character, mindset, values, and courage. The Conscious Professional provides a practical path to building one's own leadership capabilities. Fellow travelers on the journey of serving a big mission can learn to use everyday events to immediately and deeply practice the skill sets and mindsets to become a better leader."" --Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA, Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient ""Jessica Hartung's The Conscious Professional is an elegantly crafted guide to getting the most out of your professional life. This is a book you will want to come back to again and again throughout your life and career. Hartung draws from her rich experience coaching and developing leaders to present stories about relatable characters that offer hope to the reader while at the same time validating how perilous growth can often feel. The reflection exercises Hartung provides throughout the book ground the learning in each reader's individual experience and invite countless hours of meaningful contemplation. Put this book in your satchel or briefcase: it is the how-to manual for growing yourself on the job."" -- Eric Meade, President of Whole Mind Strategy Group and Author of Reframing Poverty: New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge ""In a world filled with books written by so-called thought leaders, you are lucky to walk away with 1 or 2 new good ideas. Jessica's book is filled with value in every chapter, I was blown away. In today's world very little exceeds expectations, this book does."" -- Evan Manée, Director of Human Capital, AIM Labs, LCC, Longmont, CO

Leaders today and in the future will be focused on how to be--how to develop quality, character, mindset, values, and courage. The Conscious Professional provides a practical path to building one's own leadership capabilities. Fellow travelers on the journey of serving a big mission can learn to use everyday events to immediately and deeply practice the skill sets and mindsets to become a better leader. --Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA, Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Jessica Hartung's The Conscious Professional is an elegantly crafted guide to getting the most out of your professional life. This is a book you will want to come back to again and again throughout your life and career. Hartung draws from her rich experience coaching and developing leaders to present stories about relatable characters that offer hope to the reader while at the same time validating how perilous growth can often feel. The reflection exercises Hartung provides throughout the book ground the learning in each reader's individual experience and invite countless hours of meaningful contemplation. Put this book in your satchel or briefcase: it is the how-to manual for growing yourself on the job. -- Eric Meade, President of Whole Mind Strategy Group and Author of Reframing Poverty: New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge In a world filled with books written by so-called thought leaders, you are lucky to walk away with 1 or 2 new good ideas. Jessica's book is filled with value in every chapter, I was blown away. In today's world very little exceeds expectations, this book does. -- Evan Man e, Director of Human Capital, AIM Labs, LCC, Longmont, CO

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Jessica G. Hartung has a passion for inspiring and equipping people to grow from their work to improve their lives. In 1998, she founded Integrated Work, a consulting firm that brings top-notch professional development to mission-driven leaders, while being a learning laboratory for innovative work practices. A sought-after coach, advisor and facilitator, Jessica's secret sauce is using actual, real-life work challenges as the case study to grow new levels of leadership, personal growth and capability to dream more vividly and achieve more artfully. Now, she is working to help everyone have access to the same top tier professional development that organizational clients enjoy. Building ethical leadership at all levels, including personal and professional growth is how we advance humanity, protect our planet, and build a connected, compassionate, and educated society. This is how we shape our future. I aim to put the most powerful leadership tools in the hands of change makers, moving us forward to a future that is better for us all-inside and out. Jessica is the author of The Conscious Professional: Transform Your Life at Work, a contributing author for Conscious Company Magazine, and a coach for Emerging Women and the Frances Hesselbein Global Student Leadership Summit. Jessica resides in Boulder, Colorado with her husband, astrophysicist Stephen F. Hartung, and two children.

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