Dan Clay: Why you should bring your whole self to work
Dan Clay: Pourquoi vous devriez être vous-même au travail
By day, Dan Clay is a partner in at a brand and innovation consultancy. His more well-known persona is Carrie Dragshaw. Full bio
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decisive, unwavering.
catégorique, inébranlable.
always have an answer.
aie réponse à tout.
at a global creative consultancy.
international de conseil en créativité.
I couldn't help but wonder ...
je ne pouvais pas m'empêcher de penser...
is a little nontraditional,
bring to the office?
l'authenticité est-elle interdite ?
de ma carrière,
one way to be a leader:
qu'une façon d'être chef :
office drag to fit the role:
pour correspondre à ce rôle.
try to hold in my hand motions.
je contrôlais mes gestes.
really excited about things,
in my head, telling me,
dans ma tête qui me disait :
too feminine, too flamboyant."
trop extravagant. »
adviser who said,
bien intentionné m'a dit :
And that's great.
que tu es gay. C'est bien.
over the head with it."
de leur rabâcher. »
pour Halloween 2016.
TV show character, Carrie Bradshaw,
mon personnage de série télé préféré
would get a kick out of it.
and at first it was pure fun.
au début, c'était génial.
messages from people
incroyables de personnes
to be their authentic selves.
à être eux-mêmes.
little voice in my head to just shut up
dans ma tête de la fermer
à prendre de l'ampleur.
In the "New York Post", "US Weekly" --
dans le New York Post, l'US Weekly --
still respect me as a leader?
get a different job.
un nouveau travail.
something small.
une petite chose.
it wasn't long, it just said,
pas très long, qui disait :
that had just gone up about me.
qui venait de paraître.
scared voice away
cette petite voix terrifiée
about this whole new world,
to make you feel comfortable.
pour vous mettre à l'aise.
started acting differently.
à agir autrement.
more playful with me,
plus enjoués avec moi,
to be more of themselves as well.
d'être eux-mêmes aussi.
my standing with my team.
aux yeux de mon équipe.
part of me would not just be embraced,
de moi, en plus d'être acceptée,
est mise en valeur
in my career when all of this started.
établie quand tout ça a commencé.
pour toi, peut-être pas.
of bringing your whole self to work.
son vrai moi au travail.
my own misperceptions
mes propres préjugés
and finding ways to amplify them.
et trouver des façons de les amplifier.
I'd put on my perfect leader mask.
j'enfilais mon masque du chef parfait.
"Gosh, that was frustrating."
« Bon sang, c'était frustrant. »
and struggles in an open way,
et des difficultés ouvertement,
that they're fine until it's too late.
jusqu'à ce que ça soit trop tard.
demande du travail.
spent pretending,
gâchée en faisant semblant,
is that in this big study of covering,
dans cette étude du camouflage,
who say they're doing it
values inclusion.
favorise l'inclusion.
and all of our strange inner voices
et nos voix intérieures étranges
between adapting and disguising.
entre s'adapter et se déguiser.
as a call to be the ally
comme un appel pour être l'allié,
qu'il n'est pas grave de s'ouvrir.
of your ethnic background,
de ton origine ethnique,
or are deeply religious,
ou si tu es très religieux,
being your full self at work.
d'être vraiment toi-même au travail.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Clay - Writer, consultantBy day, Dan Clay is a partner in at a brand and innovation consultancy. His more well-known persona is Carrie Dragshaw.
Why you should listen
Dan Clay is a partner in strategy and innovation for Lippincott, an NYC-based consultancy. His expertise focuses on the strategic growth spaces that emerge from changing customer needs, expectations, fears and desires. In addition to advising financial services, health care and retail clients, Clay is a leading voice in Lippincott's intellectual capital and has authored several reports on how to build emotional bonds with the customer of the future. He graduated with an MBA from Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania and received his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Northwestern University.
Clay's more well-known persona is Carrie Dragshaw. What started as a simple Halloween costume turned into a viral fairy tale. Clay recreates classic Sex and the City looks and accompanies them with original "couldn't help but wonder" monologues. He's been featured in Cosmopolitan, L.A. Times, Us Weekly, the New York Post, BuzzFeed, Man Repeller, Huffington Post, Out, Refinery29, InStyle and more. Carrie Dragshaw has one simple mission: to create a little corner of the internet that is only positivity and love.
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