“Exploration is free,” says Misha Rubin, career educator and CEO of The Career Leap. He joins Lesley Jane Seymour to share his journey from a successful corporate career— including over 20 years at Ernst & Young— to founding his own coaching business. Drawing from his experience, Rubin unveils his powerful Career Leap Method, a framework designed to help professionals navigate transformation through discovery, pursuit, and foundational support. He explores the barriers to reinvention, from limiting beliefs to societal pressures, and highlights the unique challenges women face in the workforce. With a focus on thoughtful exploration and community support, Rubin offers actionable tips to make career leaps a risk-free endeavor.

About Misha Rubin

Misha Rubin is a career educator, and CEO of The Career Leap. His mission is to facilitate meaningful intentional changes at work and in life. He helps executives and professionals reinvent careers, find dream jobs and thrive at work. He was a Partner at Ernst & Young, where he spent 15 fruitful years of his career. His 20-year corporate experience birthed the The Career Leap method, a guided actionable inquiry that is structured for you to discover and pursue your next career move. Born and raised in Ukraine, Misha is on the board of Worldwide Orphans (WWO), a non-profit that supports children at risk globally, and in 2022 he founded Children of Ukraine to support children with trauma during and post Russian invasion. Misha received the 2022 Humanitarian Award for his work in Ukraine.

Connect with Misha:

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Time Stamps:

03:01 - How Misha Rubin reinvented as a coach

05:48 - Helping people in transition in midlife

12:24 - "You need to take everything into account to make a good career decision"

16:52 - What it really means to make decisions based on intuition

21:30 - "People don't know how to start exploring change because it's scary"

23:19 - Why more people are reinventing in midlife now vs. 20 years ago

24:40 - "For most people, career choice is unconscious"

27:47 - How your career choices impact you later in life

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