AGL 422: Kathy Oneto on Sustainable Ambition

About Kathy

Sustainable AmbitionKathy Oneto is an executive and life-work coach, speaker, and facilitator who helps ambitious individuals and organizations explore how to live and work differently for greater success, satisfaction, and sustainability. With a portfolio career, she is also a strategy executive who bridges her two worlds applying strategic approaches to life and work decisions and practices. Kathy is the founder of Sustainable Ambition® and host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast. As a strategist, Kathy has had a twenty-five-year career working across business, branding, innovation, and talent. In her work today, she partners with ambitious organizations and leaders to illuminate and make progress on what matters, helping them do better for their business, customers, and people. You can learn more here. She holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a B.S. in commerce from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School. She is certified in the Co-Active Coaching Model and by the International Coaching Federation.

Her writing has appeared in Fast Company, Brandingmag, and MediaPost, and she’s been a guest lecturer at the business schools at Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, Duke University, and the University of Colorado. As a former triathlete and marathon runner, Kathy embodies the principles she teaches. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and the fog, where she builds her resilience outdoors. Her approach to life mirrors her work: finding joy in the journey while pursuing sustainable fulfillment across life and work.


Today We Talked About

  • Kathy’s background
  • Work-life Balance Myth
  • Sustainability
  • Ambition
  • Life-Work Sustainability
  • When is the “Right” Time
  • Season of your life
  • Burnout
  • Breaks
  • Pomodora
  • Vacation and Downtime
  • Restoration
  • Soul Days
  • Setting Expectations and Norms for communication and availability
  • Defining Success on your terms
  • “You” Curve of Ambition

 


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