Reinventing your career — when it’s not just about you Herminia Ibarra 16 January 2024 “I wish my husband never read your book,” a friend said to me some years ago, referring to Working Identity, my book about how people make career changes at mid-career. A...
Five Barriers to Career Change — and How to Overcome Them Herminia Ibarra, Kendall Smith & Neil Courtis 5 December 2023 If you’ve been thinking of making a career change, you are not alone. Consider the state of the current employment landscape: mass lay-offs...
Why career transition is so hard. And how to manage it better. Herminia Ibarra 20 Oct 2023 Today people at all stages of their careers are asking themselves profound questions about the kind of work they do, how much of it they want to do, and the place it...
The challenges of networking as an executive Herminia Ibarra & Spish Rurak 5 Sept 2023 Look online at any of the thousands of articles available on the challenges of networking for a job, and you’ll find that 100% of them give advice on how relatively junior...
The Leadership Odyssey Herminia Ibarra, Claudius A. Hildebrand & Sabine Vinck 1 May 2023 We’ve observed ample evidence of this new reality in our work as researchers, coaches, and leadership advisers. And we’ve also observed that executives are having a hard...
Career sponsorship is a two-way street Rachel Simmons & Herminia Ibarra 13 February 2023 As companies scale up initiatives to advance underrepresented talent, many are anchoring their efforts in matching top performers to senior sponsors. As we recently wrote...
