WILMINGTON — Career coaches and corporate recruiters help job-seekers and companies find the right fit. Sometimes they benefit from a little coaching themselves.
That’s the message that Kala Taylor, assistant dean of the Career and Professional Development Center at the Campbell Law School and Gallup-certified strengths coach brings to her colleagues in upcoming national and statewide speaking engagements.
Her presentations are based on training programs offered by Gallup, a global analytics and advice firm focused on building individuals’ strengths. The events add to her growing reputation as an expert in career coaching and organizational consulting.
Taylor is the first assistant dean of career and professional development at Campbell Law, where she helps hundreds of students and thousands of alumni plan their careers. As a former real estate attorney who remains licensed, she is able to guide them through evolving market trends. She also facilitates workshops for nonprofits and university departments.
First up for Taylor this year is her opening keynote address to the N.C. Association of Colleges and Employers in Wilmington on May 2.
“What a beach ball can teach us about work and life” is the title of her presentation. Her remarks will address how coaches and recruiters can recharge by exploring ways to combine work and personal challenges. It will, in other words, be one big coaching session for coaches.
“We literally make the world go around with one student, one client, one candidate and one acquisition filled at a time,” Taylor explains in the program. “We advise others. We strive to make our companies better. But yet, we can struggle with heeding our own advice, not making time to make ourselves better.”
Then in August, Taylor will be one of the closing keynote speakers at the 45th conference for the National Association for Health Care Recruitment in Philadelphia.
The program for that event describes her as “a scholar of the intersection between confidence, hope, purpose and the world of work.”
ABOUT CAMPBELL LAW
Since its founding in 1976, Campbell Law has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion, and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. Among its accolades, the school has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation’s top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 4,200 alumni, who make their home in nearly all 50 states and beyond. In 2019, Campbell Law will celebrate 40 years of graduating legal leaders and 10 years of being located in a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of North Carolina’s Capital City.