Broken

Creating Career Momentum in a Flawed and Outdated System

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A storm has been building for the last 40 years in corporate America. The damage of nearly four decades of short sighted strategies, greed, and a singular definition of power has finally taken its toll, leaving a broken and outdated system in its wake. 

With the acceleration of technology, shortened lifespan of corporations, and the newer realization that meritocracy is not just a myth but a dangerous trap, professionals find themselves on unsteady ground trying to make sense of how to navigate, let alone advance, in their careers. This combined with the ongoing smear campaign pegging Millennials as the “Job Hopping Generation” who are directionless, entitled, and disloyal has fueled the belief that a successful career must be linear.

Navigating a career amidst the storm has been a unique brand of difficulty for career driven women. The 1970s brought radical changes for women and for the first time women were expanding beyond traditionally female fields such as teaching, nursing, and clerical work and entering male-dominated careers as doctors, lawyers, engineers, and managers. The belief was that women could do anything, be anything. Yet as more women strove for growth in their careers and outpace men in earning undergrad and masters degrees, women still only represent 10.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs and 28% of all C-Suite positions.  

Collectively there is an underlying belief that there has to be something better and yet the idea of trying to fix what is broken feels overwhelming. The prevalence of hustle culture leaves professionals burned out with little to no capacity to try and make sense of this storm by doing their own research and synthesizing it into something cohesive. As a result, the chasm between reality and the insidiously perpetuated belief of what is true has led individuals to believe they’re  broken, not the system. Until now. 

In this groundbreaking book, readers will explore the external forces of a broken and flawed system that perpetuate the myth that career change is unusual, historical changes that have shaped and disrupted our understanding of careers, and specific headwinds women still face in the workplace. This book also explores the internal forces of psychological biases that keep us stuck. Sharing new research from over 100 interviews of successful female professionals, readers will be able to turn ideas into action. Focusing on things within their span of control, Broken delivers actionable exercises and a framework that allows career driven women to tap into a collective desire to uncover a potential they know is there.

Changing careers is a right of passage. It is a signal of growth. A signal that we are choosing to embrace who we are becoming rather than fight to stay who we were. And in this pivotal time in our working history, it is an opportunity. This broken system has made room for a new one to emerge. The exact reason this new era of work is scary is also why it’s exciting. The future is not written. We are actively writing the story now and each time someone reads this book they help write the narrative in a more human, balanced, and equitable way.

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