think ahead: Traditional to Trailblazing - Strategies for Mid-Career Transition

This video will provide you with practical strategies to support you through a successful mid-career change, learning from global industry practitioners with real-world experience. Our London Business School Faculty present world-leading academic research to guide you as you trailblaze the future of work, and help you navigate mid-career changes with more optimism, creativity, and success.
The video features Herminia Ibarra, Charles Handy Chair in Organisational Behaviour; Professor of Organisational Behaviour, at London Business School; Kurt Budge, Mining Executive/Former CEO, Registered Forrest Yoga Teacher, Executive Coach in training; Russell Jones, ex-Army captain turned artist, and is moderated by Sarah Gordon, Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE, former Business Editor, Financial Times, former CEO at the Impact Investing Institute, and covers:
• What makes career change so difficult?
• Is there a bias to overcome in pursuing a non-traditional career path?
• Strategies to face sustainable and successful mid-career change with optimism and creativity
• Will this be the future of work?
To learn more about these discussions and gain actionable insights into pressing business issues, explore think ahead, London Business School's event and podcast series. To view other videos in the think ahead series, please click this link: • think ahead: Breakthro...

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One key takeaway is networking. Networking and the contacts made are what can help lessen the time transitioning from one job role to another. It is so important that we would encourage folks to start networking as early as possible, even while still in college.