When career change goes wrong (and how to fix it)

Many people avoid career change because they expect a long and risky struggle against uncertainty and setbacks.

However, most people overfocus on a few practical obstacles in their way and don’t pay enough attention to the “inner business” and exploration that might lead to real change.

In this webinar, Professor Herminia Ibarra will discuss some of her latest thinking about career change and explain how we can all work to manage setbacks, embrace discontinuity and work through the necessary uncertainty of transition.

We will discuss:

• Which obstacles to change are important and which tend to resolve themselves
• Why disruptions (like the pandemic) can be positive for change
• How successful career changers generate appealing alternative futures for themselves
• Why your existing network is probably holding you back
• The one activity that career changers most often cite as beneficial (hint: it is not updating your LinkedIn profile)
• Why you are probably wrong that “no one would ever hire me to do…..”

Everyone who registers for the event will be asked to complete a transition experiences survey and we will discuss the results live.

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About our speaker

Professor Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, one of Apolitica’s 100 most influential people in gender policy, a Fellow of the British Academy, and the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Scholar-Practitioner Award for her research’s contribution to management practice. She is the author of two best-selling books, Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader and Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career.

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