Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com In this episode of 97% Effective, Michael Wenderoth discusses with guest Helio Mosquim how you can deliver more impact and advance your career by creating new roles within your existing company. Helio, technology director at Vale in the Amazon region of Brazil, shares 3 keys that have powered his journey: serving a higher purpose, building strategic coalitions, and creating resources by leveraging executive education and coaching. He talks about going beyond your job description, focusing on goal convergence, and managing the “butterflies” and spotlight that come with taking risk. SHOW NOTES: The underexamined strategy to advancement and greater impact: creating a new role in your company (vs displacing someone else or looking outside)Adapting and learning: A Brazilian teenager moves to Congerville, Illinois, USA (population 400), thanks to AFS.Helio’s latest career and life move, taking a role in the Amazon region of BrazilWhat innovation looks like in the mining sector at Vale: Green briquettes, AI + Telemetry to enhance truck driving, and predicting deforestationHow Helio connects his work to serving a higher purposeHelio’s Key #1 on advancing by creating new roles: Have and Connect to Higher PurposeGoing beyond your job descriptionWhy and how Helio left a global IT role to take a regional role in the Amazon“Building power is a combination of skill and will”Why it’s important to have a clear and bold aspirationHelio’s Key #2 on advancing by creating new roles: Create Strategic Coalitions with Shared PurposeFinding the sweet spot (goal convergence)Being clear, vocal and intentional about your goals – and the greater visionThe importance of taking risks: How Helio proposed a new role in the Amazon to his boss and his boss’s boss“If you don’t have butterflies in your stomach, you are not challenging yourself.”The critical role of Adriana, Helio’s wifeIs Helio a politician? The need for strong political skillsTechnology as a tool, a means to achieves an endHelio’s Key #3 to advance through creating new roles: Leverage learnings from Executive Education and CoachingHow Helio leveraged Stanford executive education and his connections forged there to create a win-win-win that is helping startups in the Amazon ecosystemHow to ensure you stay focused when you take on “extra work”Why Helio joined as an advisor at Coalition for ImpactHow systems thinking is essentialHow to make sure when you help others, you don’t get left behindHow speaking, writing raised his profile 6 years ago, putting Helio in the spotlight“Get attraction rather than reaction”What Helio needed to unlearnWhat Helio learned from coaching: The importance of shifting from anxious to problem-solving mode.  BIO AND LINKS: From the Silicon Valley to the jungles of Brazil’s Amazon region, Hélio Mosquim Jr. is a technology director for Vale SA, a global mining company. With more than 25 years of experience across multiple industries in Europe, Asia, and Americas, Helio is deeply passionate about creating positive change, transformation and results by empowering people and organizations through technology and innovation. Startup Mentor, Board advisor, he also co-founded Match4Action that works with CrowdDoing to address critical global challenges through a systems change approach. Helio holds a B.Sc in Business Administration, an MBA, and Executive Education in Leadership from IMD, and Corporate Innovation from Stanford GSB (LEAD). Helio on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heliomosquim/Profile on Helio in Stanford’s LEAD Executive Education : https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exec-ed/difference/voices/helio-mosquimMatch4Action: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exec-ed/difference/leaders-accelerate-social-change-match4actionCrowdDoing: https://www.crowddoing.world/AFS Intercultural Programs: https://afs.orgSystems Thinking, explained: https://youtu.be/GPW