Networking is a crucial aspect of any business. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned business professional, building relationships can help you gain valuable insights and find new business opportunities.  This series shares conversations with four extraordinary business women, from the Warrior community, to discuss the skills of networking. Many people struggle with networking, or get started too late, and this is the conversation to put us on the right path. We will discuss how we can cultivate the proper mindset and what tips, stories and perspectives can we learn that will make us better networkers.

We welcome Amanda Grant, Senior Managing Director with Teneo, to join our Warrior Conversation on becoming an effective networker.  She shares her philosophy that building relationships is a key component to growing our networks. We discuss the importance of language and the stories that we hear and share to help build relationships.  Our conversation sheds light on how some of the best things that will happen in our lives will come from interactions we have with others that lead us in new directions we never expected.  

Expect to be shown new paths and skills to become a better networker and build meaningful relationships during our conversation with Amanda Grant.  

Amanda Grant is a Senior Managing Director, with Teneo’s People Advisory business.  She has a distinguished track record of over 25 years of Financial Services leadership, globally advising and recruiting C-suite leaders in corporate strategy, talent needs, DE&I, infrastructure and organic and inorganic growth.

Amanda harnesses her leadership, practical industry experience, innovative approach to enterprise business management, and extensive network to recruit the most senior and diverse leaders and teams in financial services. Amanda advises asset and wealth management firms, banks, FinTech and Private Equity companies, portfolio companies and Venture Capital firms. She understands the challenges and opportunities faced by today’s business leaders and serves as a trusted partner and advisor on senior leadership team structure, distribution infrastructure, operating and investment teams, strategy, and talent.

(2:33) What is Amanda’s philosophy around networking and relationship building?  

(4:50) The importance of “finding the uncommon” when building relationships with others.  


(6:50) Understanding the difference between networking and relationship building.  
10:52) Amanda shares with us what her network is like.  

(15:03) What does Amanda feel are important skills to have when trying to build relationships?  

(17:38) Amanda shares some of the experiences that were influential in her career.  

(28:04) How can we share these skills to others, how can we pay it forward?  

(30:00) What would Amanda say to someone who is “in auto pilot mode” and might need some council?  

(38:05) Amanda shares an ask, an offer and an acknowledgment to the community    

Connect with Amanda Grant
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-grant-94633a4/  

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