In this panel, you’ll hear from professionals who are hybrids and how they lead one-of-a-kind work because they’ve tapped into ways of combining their professional identities together. They’ll share stories as well as lessons on how they’ve leveraged their identities and created new ways to brand themselves that break conventional stereotypes and trends. If you’re a jack/jill-of-all-trades, a multi-talented professional, or are trying to figure out what differentiates your professional identity, this panel will fill you with a whole new vision of who you are in the workforce.
I'm a researcher of hybrid professionals, and I've been studying this topc for nearly 10 years. I recently gave a
TEDx Talk "Are You a Hybrid Professional." I'll be releasing a book about this in April titled "
More Than My Title: The Power of Hybrid Professionals in a Workforce of Experts and Generalists."
The problem professionals are facing is this:
If you do more than one thing for work, then you ARE more than one thing, but how do you create a professional identity around that without sounding like a “master of none”? Hybrid professionals are a hidden segment of the workforce who deliver value from the intersections of their multiple professional identities, and the secret is getting out.
Panelists
Sarabeth Berk, PhD (moderator)-- (Creative Disruptor and Director of
Futurebound) Hybrid professional whose primary professional identities include artist/researcher/educator/designer
Andrea Bazoin (Founder, everHuman, LLC): is a human resilience activator, which means she works withindividuals and teams to identify and dismantle the practical and personal barriersthat keep them from thriving in our ever-accelerating future.
Brian Corrigan (Creative Strategist): works at the intersection of creative economy/technology/community development.
Chelley Canales: (Founder and Spiritual Sparkplug): is a coach, speaker, podcast/on-camera host, blogger and author with a firecracker spirit in a form that can hardly contain it.
