Jun 27, 2022
How do you go from minority, immigrant, underprivileged waste picker to senior executive VP at Johnson & Johnson? You get noticed! Samuel reveals all the secrets he used to stand out, get noticed, and make himself and his ideas more visible at work. And so can you!
In this episode you’ll discover:
✔️ His approach to selling and talking up his ideas at work.
✔️ What Samuel every time someone tried to put him down or tell him he didn’t belong there.
✔️ How he decided what skills to focus on and which ones to drop.
✔️ A winning tactic to disagree with superiors that worked like magic.
✔️ How he challenged superiors when they told him he was too aggressive or difficult.
✔️ 2 strategies he used every time he heard a “no.”
✔️ And much, much more!
Samuel Moody Santos is a retired senior executive in Vice President at Johnson & Johnson, Engineer, MBA, and also minister, author, honorary consul, polyglot (5 languages), former university professor, and also husband, dad, grandfather. He is a complete man.
He is the author of “In Spite of the Headwinds: My Journey from Waste Picker to Vice President at a Top-Forty Fortune 500 Company” (link below). He is also an experienced public speaker.
👉🏼Links:
Book “In Spite of the Headwinds: My Journey from Waste Picker to Vice President at a Top-Forty Fortune 500 Company”: https://www.amazon.com/Spite-Headwinds-Picker-Senior-Executive-ebook/dp/B09KGRQ61W
Samuel Moody Santos Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-moody-santos-56601a10/
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