COVID Diaries: Build Yourself with Mia Scharphie

Mia Scharphie is a career and business strategist, and the
founder of Build Yourself. She helps women in design, tech and
innovation move from managing the work to setting the agenda. She
helps women move past bias and make their industries and
workplaces better places for women's talent.


Mia has trained national industry groups like the American
Institute of Architects and Americans for the Arts, and works
with leadership and staff at global design and innovation
companies such as Stantec, Gensler and HOK. She's a former
Harvard Innovation Lab resident, ran a research effort on women
in social impact design for the Harvard Business School, and was
named as one of Impact Design Hub’s Social Impact Design 40 under
40. 


You can find Mia at Build Yourself, on Instagram, or on Linked
In. 


In this episode, we talk about:


- Why online collaboration is more formal than it should be


- How we will hopefully come out of this pandemic with new
virtual ways to collaborate and get things done - but that you
can’t learn what it feels like to have the sky as the ceiling in
Google Earth


- What we should all be doing to advance our careers during
economic high and low times, and actions items to take now 


- How to hold onto your career North Star during uncertain times


- The concept of “Umbrella Careers”


 


For the toolkit that Mia mentions in the episode on finding and
approaching mid-career mentors, check out:
buildyourselfworkshop.com/designvoicementor