Coding the Story: Synthesized Professional Narratives

Coding Synthesized Professional Narratives.

I spent most of my twenties watching brilliant, capable people get passed over for promotions because they couldn’t do one simple thing: they couldn’t tell a story. I remember sitting in a dimly lit boardroom, watching a colleague stumble through a list of bullet points that sounded more like a grocery receipt than a career …

Living in Two Worlds: Poly-local Professional Identity

Poly-Local Professional Identity in two worlds.

I remember sitting in a sterile, glass-walled boardroom three years ago, listening to a “career strategist” drone on about how I needed to pick a single, narrow niche to remain “marketable.” He spoke as if my diverse skill set was a liability—a messy collection of unrelated talents that needed to be pruned into a singular, …