Episode 21. Your Digital Reinvention - Nahia Orduña

Worried about how an ever more disruptive world and changes in the digital economy might impact your career and looking for strategies to help you adapt and retool? Nahia Orduña, the author of “Your Digital Reinvention”, discussed this and much more on Episode 21 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: Overcoming limiting beliefs; Taking calculated risks to progress in your career; Creativity and solving challenging problems in technology; Experimenting and having a broad experience at the start of her career; How being adaptable and flexible can help your career; Nahia's book and how it would help someone find a job in the digital world; Working consistently over time to achieve your goals; How Nahia finds the time to build her network whilst being a working mother; Writing articles consistently to develop her ideas and thought leadership; Sharing knowledge to pass on knowledge and refine ideas; Building relationships authentically; and Thinking of yourself as a start up when looking at your career development. Nahia is currently a Manager in the Solution Architecture area at one of the biggest technology companies in the world. She has over 15 years’ experience in International IT and Tech companies and has held different roles in the field from Network Engineer to Solution Director in three different countries. She speaks speak Spanish, Basque, English, German and Data! She is one of the leaders of the Women in Big Data organization, where she regularly engages, and shares thought leadership in forums to encourage and promote diversity in data careers. She won the Data Leader of the Year Europe 2019 Award at the Women in IT Summit awards. Nahia is a contributor to the World Economic Forum and Harvard Business Review, where she shares her thoughts about the Future of Work and Digital Skills. Her book “Your Digital Reinvention”, which was published in 2020, aims to help people find their place in the digital workspace. It is a blueprint for careers and retooling in the new digital world.  Nahia told me "If you want to move on, you have to take risks so you have to be willing to take risk, you may go to a job where you don't know 100% what you're going to do but you go there or you look in a new field, going outside your comfort zone is the key to advancing your career."    Resources & People Mentioned Sheryl Sandberg Nahia's HBR article: https://hbr.org/2021/03/why-robots-wont-steal-your-job Grace Lordan Jeff Gothelf   Contact Nahia Website: https://nahiaorduna.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nahiaorduna/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nahiaorduna Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nahiaorduna/   Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/ReframeResetYourCareer  LinkedIn Page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true  E-mail - [email protected] It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or just to say hello, it's always a pleasure to hear from you. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. Thanks so much for your support and have a great week!   *Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*