Neil Braun has great advice for the 50+ job seeker: make your life experience your advantage. He knows what he’s talking about. Now 69 and on his 15th career role, Neil has held jobs as divergent as President of NBC Television Network and Dean of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. He continues to seek out new challenges – his latest version is co-founder of a health-related streaming service called Mediflix. Neil’s conversation is full of great advice for anyone seeking a new job or more fulfilling career.

Topics include:

• Putting yourself in “the flow of traffic” by building a network of contacts. 
• Understanding that everyone you come across is a potential collaborator or mentor, even if they are currently an adversary
• Knowing when it’s time to leave a job or position
• How he got his two biggest jobs by making his outsider role his greatest advantage
• Preparing for the Big Interview
• His biggest job failure
• Getting through a long period of joblessness
• Advice to the 50+ job seeker
• His newest venture, Mediflix

Neil S. Braun started out as a corporate attorney and has served as President of the NBC Television Network, CEO of Viacom Entertainment, and President of Imagine Entertainment (Ron Howard’s and Brian Grazer’s production company). He has been an internet entrepreneur and partnered with the producer of SHREK to create CGI animation company Vanguard Animation. He has served on the Board, Audit and Governance Committees of IMAX Corporation and chaired nonprofit boards and committees. He was Dean of Pace University’s Lubin School of Business from 2010 until 2020.  Now at 69 he is again an entrepreneur as a cofounder of Mediflix, a video streaming platform providing medical mentorship from hundreds of the world’s top specialists to help individuals navigate their chronic conditions.