The Jake Dunlap Show

Impact, Inspiring Others, and Being “Unapologetically Ambitious” with Shellye Archambeau

Episode Summary

This episode of The Jake Dunlap Show features Shellye Archambeau, who is now Board Director for companies such as Verizon, Nordstrom, Roper Technologies, Okta and many more! Shellye wasn’t born into these Board Director seats, as she had to face a significant amount of adversity starting at a young age, but has built her up into the successful person she is today. Shellye starts today’s episode discussing her upbringing at multiple schools as she faced the adversities of racial inequity at a very young age first hand. Later on Shellye was accepted and graduated from The Wharton School prior to getting her start at IBM. It was Shellye’s goal to become the CEO one day, but after 15 years of working her way through the ranks running very successful departments, she realized she wouldn’t be considered for the IBM CEO role, and moved to become the President of Blockbuster.com. (She was in the meeting that Netflix pitched Blockbuster, but that is a whole nother podcast.) Shellye studied CEOs, and realized that sales is the path to becoming CEO more than any other role, which led her to Executive Marketing/Sales positions at NorthPoint Communications and Loudcloud/Opsware. The next phase of her journey was to getting on boards, as boards are in charge of hiring CEOs. This led her to becoming a Board Director on many boards. Now, Shellye’s mission is to impact and inspire to achieve what they want to achieve has led her to writing her new book, “Unapologetically Ambitious.” Quotes “You can’t control what people say or do, but you can control how you react. If they affect how you feel about yourself, they won.” “Be comfortable with the uncomfortable.” “Risks and rewards are two sides of the same coin.” “Impact and inspiring others to achieve what they want to achieve. Find out more about Shellye in the following links: Website: https://shellyearchambeau.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelarchambeau/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shellye.archambeau Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShelArchambeau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shellye-archambeau/ Amazon Book Link: https://www.amazon.com/Unapologetically-Ambitious-Barriers-Create-Success/dp/1538702894/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1641059155&sr=8-1 Learn more about Jake Dunlap and Skaled by visiting the links below: Jake Dunlap: Personal Site - http://jakedunlap.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakedunlap/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/JakeTDunlap Instagram - http://instagram.com/jake_dunlap_ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JakeTDunlap/ Skaled: Website - https://skaled.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/skaled YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsw_03rSlbGQkeLGMGiDf4Q

Episode Notes

Shellye starts today’s episode discussing her upbringing at multiple schools as she faced the adversities of racial inequity at a very young age first hand. Later on Shellye was accepted and graduated from The Wharton School prior to getting her start at IBM.

It was Shellye’s goal to become the CEO one day, but after 15 years of working her way through the ranks running very successful departments, she realized she wouldn’t be considered for the IBM CEO role, and moved to become the President of Blockbuster.com. (She was in the meeting that Netflix pitched Blockbuster, but that is a whole nother podcast.)

Shellye studied CEOs, and realized that sales is the path to becoming CEO more than any other role, which led her to Executive Marketing/Sales positions at NorthPoint Communications and Loudcloud/Opsware. The next phase of her journey was to getting on boards, as boards are in charge of hiring CEOs. This led her to becoming a Board Director on many boards.

Now, Shellye’s mission is to impact and inspire to achieve what they want to achieve has led her to writing her new book, “Unapologetically Ambitious.”

Quotes

“You can’t control what people say or do, but you can control how you react. If they affect how you feel about yourself, they won.”

“Be comfortable with the uncomfortable.”

“Risks and rewards are two sides of the same coin.”

“Impact and inspiring others to achieve what they want to achieve.

Find out more about Shellye in the following links:

Website: https://shellyearchambeau.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelarchambeau/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shellye.archambeau

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShelArchambeau

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shellye-archambeau/

Amazon Book Link: https://www.amazon.com/Unapologetically-Ambitious-Barriers-Create-Success/dp/1538702894/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1641059155&sr=8-1