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A Free Summit for people living with Chronic Illness

Career and
Chronic Illness
Summit 2023

12 - 15 Sept 2023

4 Days of Powerful... Wisdom, Education, Support
& Amazing Community!

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A Free Summit for people living with Chronic Illness

Career and
Chronic Illness
Summit 2023

12 - 15 Sept 2023

4 Days of Powerful... Wisdom, Education, Support & Amazing Community!

REGISTER NOW

Empowerment in your career while living with chronic illness.

It's time to talk about how to flourish and create a sustainable approach that works for you and your body. 

All of our special guests have faced the deep emotional terrain that chronic illness / disability inevitably brings. They have each found ways to carve out a life filled with meaningful work and profound confidence in their career path. And they all have a passion for sharing this knowledge with you.

What's Inside?

Front row seats to our intimate, deeply personal interviews including all the emotional ups and downs, the negotiations and the practical wisdom that enables you to flourish in your career.

Think of it as the Ultimate Professional Development Series designed just for you!

You will learn about:

Career Confidence:  how chronic illness reshapes your identity and how to trust yourself, your skills and your optimal career pathway.

Professional Boundaries: managing your workload, other people's expectations and self-advocacy with ease. Plus practical strategies so you can use your energy for what is important to you.

Empowered Conversations: knowing what conversations to have when, how and with whom. Plus our top 5 strategies for confident disclosure.

Optimal Working Arrangements: all the configurations and accommodations that you may never have thought about.

Career Advancement: your pathway forward - promotions, team management and sustainable work practices. 

Authentic Leadership: how to lead and have impact building on the power of the wisdom you have gained through chronic illness/disability. 

Entrepreneurship: a new map for success including the real grit, vulnerability and joy of creating your own company.   

Our Global Leaders

Empowerment in your career while living with chronic illness.

It's time to talk about how to flourish and create a sustainable approach that works for you and your body. 

All of our special guests have faced the deep emotional terrain that chronic illness / disability inevitably brings. They have each found ways to carve out a life filled with meaningful work and profound confidence in their career path. And they all have a passion for sharing this knowledge with you.

What's Inside?

Front row seats to our intimate, deeply personal interviews including all the emotional ups and downs, the negotiations and the practical wisdom that enables you to flourish in your career.

Think of it as the Ultimate Professional Development Series designed just for you!

You will learn about:

Career Confidence:  how chronic illness reshapes your identity and how to trust yourself, your skills and your optimal career pathway.

Professional Boundaries: managing your workload, other people's expectations and self-advocacy with ease. Plus practical strategies so you can use your energy for what is important to you.

Empowered Conversations: knowing what conversations to have when, how and with whom. Plus our top 5 strategies for confident disclosure.

Optimal Working Arrangements: all the configurations and accommodations that you may never have thought about.

Career Advancement: your pathway forward - promotions, team management and sustainable work practices. 

Authentic Leadership: how to lead and have impact building on the power of the wisdom you have gained through chronic illness/disability. 

Entrepreneurship: a new map for success including the real grit, vulnerability and joy of creating your own company.   

Join Us!

4 Days of Real Talk, Wisdom, Connection and Celebration.

It's free but Registration is Essential

Our Global Leaders

Over four days, global leaders are sharing publicly, many for the first time their real and raw experience of navigating their career while also living with disability / chronic illness. Guests include world renowned physician and triple amputee Dr BJ Miller (Co-Founder of Mettle Health, who features in Chris Hemsworth's Limitless series), Executives from the USA and Australia including Jenn Sharp (SEI Consulting), Antara Mascarenus (AEMO), as well as innovative entrepreneurs like Amina Altai, and Hannah Olson, Co-Founder of Disclo, ground-breaking HR software helping employees to safely disclose and ask for accommodations at work.

In these intimate one-on-one interviews they traverse a range of topics including how to have career confidence while living with a long term health condition, managing other people's expectations, sharing and disclosure plus how many of them believe chronic illness also paved the way for their own authentic and inclusive leadership.

DISCOVER OUR SPEAKERS

We're all in it together

 

38% of workers globally are managing a chronic health condition, with the majority working full-time. 

Over 1 million Australians are leading in their companies and organisations while also navigating their own chronic health condition/s

54 percent of leaders, partially disclose their illness in the workplace. Many are cautious about stigma associated with chronic illness.

Career and Chronic Illness Summit

Join Us for 4 Days of Real Talk, Wisdom, Connection and Celebration.

It's free but Registration is Essential

Register Now

How does it work?

The Summit officially starts on September 12, 2023 and every day for 4 days you'll have immediate access to a magnificent interview with our guests including Hannah Olson, Almina Altai & BJ Miller.

Each interview be available for 4 days, so you have time to soak up the raw wisdom, laughter and support from each special guest! 

Because we want to make sure you have the opportunity to glean as much from this incredible offering as possible, at the end of the Summit we’ll offer UNLIMITED ACCESS to ALL of the interview replays for 2 days, so you don’t miss out on a single minute of this rare and refreshing wisdom.

PLUS!

We've lined up our Ultimate Career and Chronic Extravaganza Giveaway. A place in the Elevation a 3 month Career and Chronic Illness professional development program with Michelle Irving, starting in October 2023!

Meet Michelle Irving

Your Career and Chronic Illness Host

A Pioneer in the Chronic Illness space, Michelle is the Founder Career and Chronic Illness International. She has over 15 years experience in Mentoring and Executive Coaching for people navigating their career while living with chronic illness. Her work comes out of her own lived experience navigating chronic illness and a demanding career and is backed by her professional training. 

Michelle gets it. While bed-bound twice in the past decade, she mastered the art of navigating work in an empowered way including when you off-ramp for medical reasons and then on-ramp back into your career. She is driven by a mission to de-shame illness and seeing all of us thrive in our careers of choice.

Career and Chronic Illness International programs include extensive, specialised content for authentic conversations about your experience and needs, developing excellent professional boundaries, managing your emotional, mental and physical capacities as well as progressing in your career of choice. Our mentoring and training programs are suitable for both people currently working and those returning to work after extended leave.

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