The Art of Reinventing Yourself | Asya Grigoryan | TEDxLenoxVillageStudio

I often remember myself as a young, energetic, ambitious girl in business attire always eager to grow higher and to learn more. I got my third master's degree at the age of 25 and got my first top managerial position at 27. The career promised to be exciting and big and I loved it! But life is interesting because it constantly throws us challenges and it had other plans for me. It took me on an adventure of constant self-discovery and rediscovery by taking me to different countries and challenging me to discover new and hidden sides of my personality and to reinvent myself each time with the alternative of getting completely lost. 7 years, 2 different countries, 3 different cities, between home and places that eventually start feeling like home, and yet... every time you start at a new place, your whole set of stereotypes, beliefs, and stories gets challenged, questioned, falls apart like pieces of a puzzle, and slowly gets together again in a beautiful, yet different picture and view of the world and of yourself in that world. We all reinvent ourselves many times throughout our life. Even without traveling, we often find ourselves between the past where we don’t fit in anymore, and the present, where we haven’t found ourselves yet. Life isn’t standing still and as a Greek philosopher, Heraclitus said: You cannot step in the same river twice. For it is not the same river and you are not the same person. We go through relationships, we change workplaces, careers, we gain and we lose, we rise and we fall... Right now, we talk about the new normal, about the new reality created by the pandemic. It’s the new «country» we all found ourselves in and we need to reinvent ourselves to keep going, to adapt, and to thrive in the new environment. In my talk, I would like to share my journey as an ex-pat with the focus on reinventing myself few times within the past 10 years as well as to share insights, takeaways, and lessons that I learned from this journey. Asya Grigoryan is a certified Leadership and Career Coach and a results-oriented business professional with more than 15 years of experience in talent management, organizational development, change management, and business consulting.

She works with young leaders who want to enhance their leadership skills as well as with CEOs of small and medium companies who face a challenge of clarifying their competitive advantage and positioning in the market, needs to rethink their vision and strategic direction as well as struggle to create a corporate culture aligned with their values and supporting their vision and goals.

[maroliAnushka]

I love the humility in which Asya shares her life story; I loved the concepts of "I will never say no to learning experiences" and that human nature is so different and yet so alike. I am amazed as to how she combines research found in Psychology and Neuroscience with Philosophy. This presentation reminds me of the great words of Lao Tzu "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be". My take away is that growth starts when you begin to open your heart and mind that is beyond your past! Bravo, Asya!

[loiswagner-walkingwithouts]

So important to reinvent and grow - I have done it around 20 times.

[djtolst]

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