Career and Workplace expert Lindsey Pollak joins Cassie on Happenstance to talk about the happenstance moments throughout her own career.  From saying yes to an opportunity to go abroad to navigating a freelance career before freelancing and side gigs were as common as they are, Lindsey's path has included numerous moments of happenstance and emphasizes the important of knowing what you enjoy doing, building long lasting relationships and, when necessary, recalculating.

I'm so happy you're here and I can't wait to see where happenstance leads us...

Episode Topics:
- Daily POP (00:05:29)
- Career Overview (00:08:16)
- Owning our Career and Job Titles (00:16:59)
- Recalculating and Handling Change (00:20:54)
- Navigating the Speed of Change in our Careers (00:26:40)
- Trying Things and Saying No (00:32:24)
- Generational Models of Success (00:36:54)
- Personal Branding and Building a Foundation (00:40:58)
- Looking Ahead for Lindsey Pollak (00:41:52)

Guest Bio:
Lindsey Pollak is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s leading career and workplace experts. She is passionate about helping individuals and organizations
navigate and thrive in the ever-changing world of work.

Lindsey was named to the 2020 Thinkers50 Radar List, which honors the top global management thinkers whose work is shaping the future of how organizations are managed and led. Her latest book is a response to the Covid crisis: Recalculating: Navigate Your Career Through the Changing World of Work was published by HarperCollins on March 23, 2021.

Her previous book, The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace (HarperCollins, 2019) was named a Book of the Month by both the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. She is also the author of two career advice books for young professionals: Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders and Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World.

Lindsey’s speaking audiences and consulting clients have included more than 250 corporations, law firms, conferences and universities, including Aetna, Citi, Estée Lauder Companies, GE, Goldman Sachs, Google, Pfizer, Verizon, Yale, Harvard, Wharton and Stanford.

Her advice and opinions have appeared in such media outlets as The TODAY Show,
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and NPR. Lindsey is a Cappfinity VEE Brand Ambassador and has served as an official ambassador for LinkedIn, a Millennial workplace expert for The Hartford and chair of Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Millennial Advisory Board. In her philanthropic work, she serves as a board director of FourBlock, a national nonprofit that supports veteran career transition.

Guest Links:
www.lindseypollak.com

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