Elspeth Yates, career coach at Happier Humans and head of people at Change Agents

About this episode

Elspeth Yates discusses the importance of aligning career choices with personal values and shares insights on finding purpose in green careers.

This episode drops in January, traditionally the month when people quit their jobs or evaluate whether what they are doing is the right thing for them. As an independent career coach alongside working as head of Change Agents UK's People and Placements team, Elspeth Yates helps people find their purpose in green careers. She encourages them to look at their existing skills and examine how they might use them in a company more in line with their values, or enables them to bring their values to the workplace they're already in. In this episode, Elspeth talks about the importance of not ignoring those values, because we spend so much of our time working and deserve to be happy there. She remembers how a chance meeting at a careers fair boosted her own start in working life when she was fresh out of university and her surprising path to a role that now does so much for sustainability professionals. Elspeth reveals how her own happy nature and positive outlook were labelled a negative because it made her look less professional and why she’s an optimist. Find out how Elspeth came to recognise the new opportunities she could bring to other people by delivering talks, and combining…

People in this episode

Host: Sandra F

Guest: Elspeth Yates

Topics covered

• career coaching
• green careers
• sustainability
• values in the workplace
• job satisfaction

Keywords

• career coach
• sustainability
• job satisfaction
• values
• green careers
• workplace happiness
• coaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Happier Humans, Change Agents UK

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