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November member webinar*: What’s next for your $$?

11/11/24 Conversationality: Marie Gill on "flourishing" at work in uncertain times

Here's what you said...

Premium member events: November Office Hours and Book Club (NEW!)

Can we still have civil disagreement?

10/17/24 Conversationality: What's scary (and NOT scary) about the rise of AI

How my background in the arts made me.

DEEP DIVE: Branding for Non-Marketers

The Career Bermuda Triangle for Women in Midlife: Perimenopause, and Performative Performance

10/17/24 Conversationality: Meet Optionality advisor Brian Solis

Navigating a Career Identity Crisis

October Webinar: So You Want to Go Solo?

What does it mean to bring your whole self to work?

10/03/24 Conversationality: Meet Optionality member Joanna Bloor

Premium Members: Join October Office Hours: Wednesday, October 9, 12PM PT/3PM ET

DEEP DIVE: How to Pitch, Prepare, and Perform a Killer Keynote

What Wu-Tang Clan taught us about Career Survival

09/19/24 Conversationality: Meet Optionality member Maria Ross

Optionality IRL: Join us October 2, 2024 in Silicon Valley

Summer slow-downs are over

09/05/24 Conversationality: Meet Optionality member Rachael Lowell Ellison

September Webinar: A Fireside Chat with Future of Work visionary and author Brigid Schulte

DEEP DIVE: The Optionality Guide to Decision-making During a Career Transition

DEEP DIVE: The Optionality Guide to Decision-making During a Career Transition

DEEP DIVE: The Optionality Guide to Decision-making During a Career Transition

Premium Members: Join September Office Hours: 09/11/24, 12PM PT/3PM ET

More, Faster … Better?

08/22/24 Conversationality: Meet Optionality member Paolo Gaudiano

What can be, unburdened by what has been

Redefining "Gainful Employment"

08/08/24 Conversationality: Meet Lynne d Johnson

Premium Members: Join August Office Hours: 08/14/24, 12PM PT/3PM ET

Do you believe in "Bullshit Jobs"?

Privilege: A View from Relative Privilege

Deep Dive: Modernizing Mentorship

07/25/24 Conversationality: A wild week in America.

Tapping into wisdom

WisdomExchange (WE!) Program FAQ

Premium members: Book a WE session

WisdomExchange (WE!)

Embracing My Inner Smart Ass

07/11/24 Conversationality: The parallels between re-designing education and work.

Let it go.

In the Trenches with Dr. Aisha White

Premium Members: Join July Office Hours: 07/10/24, 12PM PT/3PM ET

Pivots, Profiles & Pathways: From Law to Literature

DEEP DIVE: Re-engineering Your Second Act, Using AI

06/27/24 Conversationality: Shall we retire the term "imposter syndrome"?

The best advice I ever got: People, Terms, Valuation

Is Passion a Dirty Word?

06/13/24 Conversationality: The Fearless Fund ruling, and how to focus on "ally" as verb, not noun.

Making work friends in your 20s

The Optionality WisdomExchange FAQ

Don’t inflame. Don’t emasculate. Apologize incessantly. Survive.

DEEP DIVE/GUEST POST: Navigating Collective Trauma in the Workplace

05/30/24 Conversationality: Bridging generational divides in the workplace

June '24 Office Hours: 06/12/24, 12PM PT/3PM ET

Top three things I learned in May

Unlearning Our Teflon Ways

Join Optionality's new subscriber chat

What's your best way to calm yourself when you're feeling anxious?

In the Trenches with special guest Shelley Paxton

Dogs & cats living together...mass hysteria!

Our Networks, Ourselves

OPEN THREAD: What's your Networking Philosophy?

05/08/24, 12PM PT/3PM ET: May '24 Office Hours

[OPEN TO ALL] Conversationality: Power, Potential, Purpose, and Promises

Fail your family or quit your job.

Member Offer: ORG AI, a virtual bootcamp for professionals

May webinar: Managing the Anxiety of an Optionality-Driven Life

AI for 1099s

OPEN THREAD: Fear, Hope, Relief

In the Trenches with special guest Carla Hall

[OPEN TO ALL] A Conversationality with Cathy Brooks

Help Me Help You

REMINDER: AI Show & Tell today [Premium member event]

Integrating GenAI into Your Work ... Effectively & Ethically: April 24, Noon PT/3p ET

Dropping our Work Demons

OPEN THREAD: Shedding your “Shoulds” at Work

4/15/24/3PM PT: AI Show & Tell

GUEST POST: Navigating a strengths-forward approach to management

DEEP DIVE: Managers need support, stat!

04/10/24, 12PM PT/3PM ET: April '24 "Office Hours"

Navigating Past-Life FOMO

OPEN THREAD: A Q1 check-in.

03/21/24: A Conversationality about AI, natch.

What does it mean when AI gets booed at SXSW?

In the Trenches, with special guest: Silicon Valley icon, Guy Kawasaki.

The Art of Basicking

OPEN THREAD: What time/energy sucks are you dropping from your day?

03/07/24: A Conversationality about our upcoming caregiving webinar

Caregiving: The Silent Energy Drain

So are we a network of Fractional workers? Not exactly...

OPEN THREAD: Do you feel "more heard and respected" working from home or in the office?

Deep Dive Series: Fractional Hacks

03/13/24, 2PM PT/5PM ET: March '24 "Office Hours"

02/22/24: A Conversationality about the last 20 years of workplace disruption

Questions I have for our fractional work webinar

In the Trenches, with special guest Octavia Goredema, author of Prep, Push, Pivot.

OPEN TO ALL TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY): February Office Hours (LIVE!)

My Stints in the Chocolate Factory: A journey of worker well-being

OPEN THREAD: Let's Talk about Wellness at Work

02/07/24: A Conversationality about #Boundaries and how to #ActYourWage

The most valuable currency in your career is (still) who you know.

2/21/24 Optionality Member Webinar: The ins, outs, ups & downs of fractional work

02/14/24, 12PM PT: February '24 "Office Hours"

When the Promised Land seems less promising

Open Thread: Share your questions, concerns, and hopes re: hiring or being fractional leaders

Deep Dive: One size does not fit all when it comes to habit formation

01/25/24: Conversationality tackles the news: Wellness programs and WebMD

One size does not fit all when it comes to habit formation; here's an alternative approach.

In the Trenches, with special guest Christina Wallace, author of The Portfolio Life.

Celebrating the Non-Linear Life

Open Thread: What are your hacks for organizing your Optionality life?

01/11/24: Conversationality – habits, resolutions, goals, words of the year, intentions

Reminder: Office Hours today at 12PM PT

The Professional Is Political Too

Looking for a few good Optionality Premium focus group participants

OPEN THREAD: How'd you do with those healthy holiday boundaries?