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In this LinkedIn Live, Marti Konstant, a career futurist, offers strategies on how professionals can cultivate career branding, utilizing AI tools like ChatGPT, as it relates to networking, job searches and career advancement. Marti shares her career agility model—keeping pace with the demands of the modern business landscape by monitoring trends and anticipating what's ahead.

In our second episode we're joined by Marti Konstant, Workplace Futurist, investor, best-selling author and expert in applying agile principles to workforce development. She dives deep into the challenges facing workers and how to career agility – including how to stay more relevant in the workplace. This episode is full of tips and advice that you can put into practice today.

Description: In this episode, I speak with Mike McNatt, a test and compliance engineer who continues to work contract jobs well into his 70s. He was introduced to me as the guy who has got this gig work down and that is not working for Uber. This is a rebroadcast of one of the best episodes of 2022. You may be asking why I am doing a rebroadcast at this time. As my long-time listeners know I live in Ajijic Mexico just south of Guadalajara. My wife and I have some major decisions to make in the coming weeks. My wife needs to have what I hope will be non-invasive heart surgery. I will be putting my focus on whether my wife has the surgery performed in Mexico where we have no insurance but dealing with healthcare is much easier or do we return to the US where we are covered by Medicare but we will have to deal with the US healthcare system. Just to be clear, my wife feels fine and has not been told to reduce her level of activity. This came as a complete surprise, and we feel blessed to be dealing with healthcare here in Mexico. Making the appropriate appointments with world-class medical specialists can be done in days and not weeks or months. That is where my focus will be in the coming weeks and not producing content for this podcast. Back to the introduction of the episode. My good friend, Marti Konstant, who is a workplace futurist and career coach, said I needed to have Mike on this podcast. Mike has worked contract engineering jobs and has developed a strategy to stay fully employed. Mike is an engineer who was interviewed for Forbes called, Working In Tech At Any Age–This Engineer Tells You How. He also produced multiple LinkedIn posts on his strategies which I will include in the show notes. Back in the 1980s, when I worked for IBM, I helped lead a mechanical design support group. Our internal customers hired a lot of contract engineers for 12-to-24-month contracts. What I learned was they would work a contract, then take a few months off and then find the next. They were completely comfortable with this lifestyle. Here we are 30-40 years later, and this is a new way of working. Mike has become comfortable with this, and I want you to listen to his story. This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot Community, and be sure to pick up my latest book, Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life Third Edition. For the full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode click here.

On What's Your Work Fit we pose this viewer question: I Need Upskilling. How Do I Ask For It? Our guest is Marti Konstant. Marti is a workplace futurist, motivational speaker, professional trainer, and best-selling author of Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change will Inspire Your Life's Work.  This week's lead question was … Continue reading I Need Upskilling. How Do I Ask For It? →

Marti Konstant and I share an interest in futurism and shifting mindsets to help people succeed in the future of work.  In this episode, we talk about the importance of being adaptable, combining your existing skills and interest to create innovative new ones and how to experiment with AI and why it's important to at least consider how you'd use it. Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist with an agile mindset. She is a career growth analyst, author, speaker, and founder of the Happy Profitable Employee Project™. An early adopter of workplace trends and technology change, her career path includes: artist, designer, entrepreneur, technology marketing executive, business advisor, and investor. Starting her profession in the tech sector launched a style of deliberate career growth, guided by personal preferences. As a marketing professional, Marti managed marketing programs for companies like Samsung Mobile, Apple, Tellabs, Platinum Technology, Clear Communications, and Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs). As a chief marketer in the mobile security space, her digital demand generation and market awareness strategies resulted in the acquisition of OK Labs by General Dynamics What started out as a quest to fine-tune her evolving career sparked a research project, workshops, and book, where future of work and career agility are central themes. Her story-driven book, Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life's work, is the result of 120 interviews and custom research. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois, and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. A persistent optimist and prolific photographer, she lives in Chicago with her husband. She is a runner, hiker, long walker, and avid photographer. Other background if you want to add to podcast at the end:   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martikonstant/ Website: https://www.martikonstant.com/ Foundation article on agility: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-career-agility-marti-konstant/    

In the middle of a career and workplace reset, you will need to quickly adapt or risk disappearing, learn how career agility can help. THIS WEEK'S TOPIC: Agility describes more than flexing with rapid change. In the middle of a career and workplace reset, you will need to quickly adapt or risk disappearing. How will you bridge the great divide between survival and thrive mode in your career to design a positive future? To bring your future to the present and to stay relevant: Disrupt your model by challenging your assumptions.Notice the trends and signals.Take action (after deciding how trends and signals affect you.THIS WEEK'S GUEST: Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist and the best-selling author of “Activate Your Agile Career.” She has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a former technology executive that has worked in Silicon Valley. As a Top Career Influencer, she has been featured in media outlets such as NBC Chicago, Forbes, and The Muse, and has worked in companies like Samsung, Dow Jones and Apple. Marti is an expert in applying agile principles to workforce development Support the show

Have you ever met a workplace futurist before? Well, let me tell ya, they're pretty awesome and very helpful in exploring what's to come in the future of (all) work plus specific to marketers. Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist and best-selling author of “Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change will Inspire Your Life's Work.” She's also the owner of Konstant Change. Prior, Marti held marketing and demand gen roles at Samsung and Open Kernel Labs (acquired by General Dynamics). Try typing in "career agility" into Google and her article still comes up #1 in the results. Here's what we hit on: What in the world is a workplace futurist; What has made you successful in this field; Marti explains her DNA framework for how to bring your future into your present (HINT: Disrupt the model, Notice the signals, Act); How do you stay ahead; What does the Marketer of the future look like, what will they need to do and know (HINT: the expiration date for your set of skills is 4 years or less); How do we continue to stay relevant in the field of marketing as we get older; Why today's workforce is no longer a "workforce," it's really a “work net” (different people that are augmenting your team); What does the Metaverse have to do with all of this; What are your top challenges, what are you trying to figure out these days. You can reach Marti on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/martikonstant/ Check out her website: www.martikonstant.com/ For more content, subscribe to Modern Startup Marketing on Apple or Spotify or wherever you like to listen, and don't forget to leave a review! People call me (Anna) the Marie Kondo of startup marketing because I help VC backed early stage startups clean up their marketing mess to uncover more joy (and revenue). For those startups that have already built their marketing foundation and have been testing different marketing plays but just aren't satisfied with the traction they're seeing, I created the Marketing Audit + Roadmap offering. At the end of your audit, you'll get a custom Roadmap with improvement opportunities for the next 3-6 months. So that you can finally put the missing pieces in place to start seeing more traction and stop spending time and money on the wrong things. You can learn more about it by visiting my website: www.furmanovmarketing.com/pricing You can find me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/annafurmanov --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anna-furmanov/message

Description: In this week's episode, I speak with Mike McNatt, a test and compliance engineer who continues to work contract jobs into his 70s. He was introduced to me as the guy who has got this gig work down and that is not working for Uber. My good friend, Marti Konstant, who is a workplace futurist and career coach, said I needed to have Mike on this podcast. Mike has worked contract engineering jobs and has developed a strategy to stay fully employed. Mike is an engineer who was interviewed for Forbes called, Working In Tech At Any Age–This Engineer Tells You How. He also produced multiple LinkedIn posts on his strategies which I will include in the show notes. Back in the 1980s, when I worked for IBM, I helped lead a mechanical design support group. Our internal customers hired a lot of contract engineers for 12-to-24-month contracts. What I learned was they would work a contract, then take a few months off and then find the next. They were completely comfortable with this lifestyle. Here we are 30-40 years later, and this is a new way of working. Mike has become comfortable with this, and I want you to listen to his story. This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot Community, and be sure to pick up my latest book, Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life Third Edition. For the full show notes click here.

In this Episode we talk with Marti Constant. Marti is a career futurist and career coach. Some of the main things we talk about are: 1. What Marti does and her career 2. What is a Agile career and being patient in your career 3. Creativity and what does it mean to be creative in your career 4. Is creativity in your career linked to career happiness? 5. What has changed since the pandemic and what will continue to change in the future of work 6. Health and career happiness and how to manage this You can connect with Marti on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martikonstant/ Visit her site here https://www.martikonstant.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/careerhappiness/message

Adaptability and agility are considered two of the top skills identified by LinkedIn in 2021 to help organizations grow, stay current, and compete in a business environment of insistent change. According to Marti Konstant, workplace futurist, former technology executive (who has worked in Silicon Valley), and best-selling author of Activate Your Agile Career, "Agile isn't just for tech anymore – it's transforming how organizations hire, develop and manage their people.” It's also how you can, and probably should, be managing your career. In this CareerCast, Marti shares how to apply an agile mindset to the modern workplace to help you advance in your organization beyond your current role, use transferrable skills for a pivot, and rethink your career options for the future of work.

Be proactive about stagnation in your work with workplace analyst and career-agility researcher Marti Konstant. She is the author of the best-selling “Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change will Inspire Your Life's Work” with a companion workbook. She is a workplace futurist who guides individuals to help them pursue their passion and understand what they can bring to the workplace. “When change is happening, don't do nothing!” - Marti KonstantPrior to launching her company, "Konstant Change", Marti was the Senior Director of Inbound Sales Development at Samsung Electronics where she created and launched generation programs and developed inside sales channels. She also led HubSpot implementation and integrated Salesforce.com.For six years prior to her leadership at Samsung, she was the Vice President of Marketing at Open Kernel Labs, Inc. where she helped define the mobile virtualization market space for the company which led to Open Kernel Labs mobile software being in 2 billion devices worldwide. She took the company from launch to the acquisition of General Dynamics. Marti also was the Director of Client Services at CloserLook where she led the creation of relationship marketing solutions for various companies in the pharmaceutical and med-tech industries.Marti Konstant received her MBA in Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as well as her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.More about Marti from her LinkedIn profile---- "Within my well-researched body of work, I've created links between individual career agility and workforce agility, two essential behaviors for thriving in a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. The flexible agility model enables individuals and organizations to better assess fluid circumstances with the goal of adapting to change in a strategic manner. According to my research, the agility mindset can be learned and is one of the most needed power skills in the workplace today. Organizations require agility thinkers to move their organizations forward, especially in times of disruption and uncertainty. Job seekers and the employers who hire them benefit from the nimble and forward-thinking approach of those who forge the future and cultivate agility, rather than stop in their tracks via stagnation. The World Economic Forum when referring to organizational resilience in response to the pandemic, mentioned, "When asked about “being more agile”, having fluid teams and workers with broad skill sets were most important to companies – above agile work practices, or agile organization design." Contact me for keynote speeches, training, and coaching:

Marti is a workplace futurist and the best-selling author of “Activate Your Agile Career.” She has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a former technology executive who has worked in Silicon Valley. As a Top Career Influencer, she has been featured in several media outlets including NBC Chicago, Forbes and The Muse, and worked in companies like Samsung, Dow Jones and Apple. Marti is an expert in applying agile principles to workforce development. LEARN MORE:martikonstant.comlinkedin.com/in/martikonstantActivate Your Agile Career#resumepodcast

Decision Vision Episode 132: Should I Experiment with My Business? – An Interview with Marti Konstant, Konstant Change For many business owners, the pandemic raised fresh questions about diversifying revenue and pivoting into new business lines. Workplace agility authority Marti Konstant joined host Mike Blake to discuss how and when a business should experiment, how […] The post Decision Vision Episode 132: Should I Experiment with My Business? – An Interview with Marti Konstant, Konstant Change appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist and the best-selling author of Activate Your Agile Career. She has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a former technology executive that has worked in Silicon Valley. As a Top Career Influencer, she has been featured in media outlets such as NBC Chicago, Forbes, and The Muse, and has worked in companies like Samsung, Dow Jones and Apple. Marti is an expert in applying agile principles to workforce development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

85% of jobs that will be available in 2030, have not been invented yet. Hence the most important thing you can do to ensure your future success is to build career agility. What is career agility? If you google ‘career agility', you will find the top results belong to my guest today, Marti Konstant. Marti is a workplace futurist and best-selling author of the book ‘"Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change will Inspire Your Life's Work". Her deep thinking and intensive research on this topic is an important source of reflection for all of us. Practicing what she preaches, in this podcast episode, we learn about Marti's own agile career story and how to (not only survive, but) thrive, in a world of Konstant change (pun unintended). In this episode, Marti and I talk about:- How an early medical setback during her childhood helped create a mindset that set her up for future success- An unusual technique she used to pitch for and land her dream job- How she traded in a 25 year corporate tenure to make her side hustle into her main career- As one of the foremost workplace futurists, her 3 pieces of advice on the future are someything you MUST hear and think aboutSo limber up your ears and lets get started!Subscribe to Agility Think, Marti's Linkedin newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/agilitythink-6625495072857214976/Marti's website: https://www.martikonstant.com/ Liked this episode? You will love my once a month, no fluff no spam newsletter called Charge-Up, where I share my favourite career insights from movies, TV shows, news and my own personal experiences, that I don't share anywhere else.Make sure you subscribe!https://www.superchargeyourself.com/newsletterEnjoyed the show? Tell three of your closest friends!And please leave a great review on Apple Podcasts here, as it would mean a lot to me and hopefully help others discover this resource for Job Seekers !

In this episode, Meaghan Ziemba speaks with Marti Konstant, author and international keynote speaker on workforce and career agility. They discuss the importance of mentorships, specifically for recruiting the next generation of manufacturers and engineers. As a top career influencer, Marti researches, writes, and trains on the topics of workforce and career agility, providing speaking and workshops for associations, universities, and corporations on the following: • The future of work • Workforce agility • Personal branding for leaders • Cultivating happy profitable employees

When we act on future work opportunities, we help make our career dreams come true. Paired with dreams, exploration, and strategy, action helps us to achieve career success. These four components weave together like DNA, in countless combinations, to create a pathway for people to seek and do meaningful work. In this episode, Dan Smolen recalls how his early career ambition benefitted from a big relocation: "My first big career break also fulfilled the desire that my wife and I had to move to an interesting but far away part of the country. We were East Coasters. And my first agency job relocated us to Minneapolis." Seizing career advancement opportunities has served Dan well across all four of his career acts. In this episode, Dan also recalls how a 20-year role in executive search exposed him to people who jumped at sudden career opportunities out of basic need. In other words, they needed immediate cash-flow to survive. Still, when money and volatility are not career-change drivers, some people act impulsively...because, that's what they do. Also in this episode, we meet Marti Konstant of Konstant Change. Marti is a workplace futurist who helps people employ agility to succeed in the future of work. In this interview segment, she and Dan discuss working from anywhere. Discussion starts here: 9:46 About our guest: Marti Konstant is an author, consultant, and globally recognized workplace futurist. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Marti lives and works in Chicago. EPISODE DATE: May 28, 2021 Social media: – LinkedIn – Twitter  – Website – Activate Your Agile Career (Book Page) – FULL PODCAST EPISODE from March 26, 2021 Please Subscribe to The Dan Smolen Podcast on: – Apple Podcast – Android – Google Podcasts – Pandora – Spotify – Stitcher – TuneIn …or wherever you get your podcasts. You may also click HERE to receive our podcast episodes by email. Image credits: Couple walking on city street, rez-art for iStock Photo; Marti Konstant screenshot, The Dan Smolen Experience; Podcast button, J. Brandt Studio for The Dan Smolen Experience.

When we achieve a career agility mindset, we benefit with boundless opportunities in the future of work. A year out from the start of the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, one key driver has emerged for people in the workforce: a career agility mindset. Agility is the-most important attribute of successful career professionals. People now must respond to new tasks, skill requirements, company directives, and market factors. And given that more of us work from anywhere, agility becomes a key success indicator for remote and hybrid workplaces. Marti Konstant of Konstant Change is a globally recognized workplace futurist. As one of the top experts in career agility, Marti helps people to succeed in fluid work environments. In this episode, Marti: Describes Konstant Change and its unique value proposition for clients. Starts at 2:40 Defines the agility mindset and provides reasons as to why it is important for career development. Starts at 3:37 Offers perspective on why people who work are often resistant to change. Starts at 4:57 Discusses why C-suites should embrace change in how work is performed. Starts at 10:14 Provides insight on the agile workforce and the importance of project management skill. Starts at 12:51 Considers changes in workforce composition, benefit portability, and worker safety nets. Starts at 26:29 Provides perspective on people pivoting to smaller localities to work. Starts at 29:18 About our guest: Marti Konstant is an author, consultant, and globally recognized workplace futurist. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Marti lives and works in Chicago. EPISODE DATE: March 26, 2021 Social media: - LinkedIn - Twitter  - Website - Activate Your Agile Career (Book Page) Please Subscribe to The Dan Smolen Podcast on: – Apple Podcast – Android – Google Podcasts – Pandora – Spotify – Stitcher – TuneIn …or wherever you get your podcasts. You may also click HERE to receive our podcast episodes by email. Image credits: Agile workplace, fizkes for iStock Photo; Marti Konstant screenshot, The Dan Smolen Experience; Podcast button, J. Brandt Studio for The Dan Smolen Experience.

Business evolves quickly and if leaders want to survive they need to adapt along the way. Yesterday's strategies won't work tomorrow and we have to adapt to the new reality. But, WHAT IS THE NEW REALITY?   What should leaders be changing today to ensure their organizations make it to tomorrow? Is there a blueprint for uncharted territory? In this episode, workplace futurist, author, and speaker, Marti Konstant shares how to adapt in a rapidly changing world.  "When change is happening, don't do nothing. Whether it's good or bad change, you can't stagnate." -Marti Konstant Three Things You'll Learn In This Episode  Why poor communication spells disaster in today's world:  Younger generations expect clear communication from their leaders, especially when “things are going south”. Be transparent!  Why we need to change the way we think about decision making:  Empowerment is the key to effective decision making. Today's consumers want solutions in real time, so empower employees to resolve issues on their own as they arise.   How to be agile while embracing existing skills:  Leaders should plan for the future by pursuing knowledge, skills, and experience in parallel. These can be used to augment and update existing expertise, without necessarily starting over.   Guest Bio -  Marti Konstant is the CEO and Founder of Konstant Change. A workplace futurist and keynote speaker, Marti is also the bestselling author of Activate Your Agile Career. Marti is a passionate researcher and specializes in curing stagnation for individuals and organizations through agility training and coaching.    To find out more, go to: http://www.martikonstant.com  https://www.linkedin.com/in/martikonstant https://www.amazon.com/Activate-Your-Agile-Career-Responding/dp/0998953121/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=career+agility+guide+book&qid=1550594959&s=gateway&sr=8-1    To sign up for Marti's newsletter, go to: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-choose-career-agility-2020-marti-konstant-mba    Learn More About Your Host: Co-founder and Managing Partner for Northstar Group, Craig is focused on recruiting senior level leadership, sales and operations executives for some of the most prominent companies in the aviation and aerospace industry. Clients include well known aircraft OEM's, aircraft operators, leasing / financial organizations, and Maintenance / Repair / Overhaul (MRO) providers.  Since 2009 Craig has personally concluded more than 150 executive searches in a variety of disciplines. As the only executive recruiter who has flown airplanes, sold airplanes AND run a business, Craig is uniquely positioned to build deep, lasting relationships with both executives and the boards and stakeholders they serve. This allows him to use a detailed, disciplined process that does more than pair the ideal candidate with the perfect opportunity, and hit the business goals of the companies he serves. 

Excited to kick off this week's "Dr. Dawn on Careers" on SiriusXM 132 with expert guest & workplace futurist Marti Konstant speaking about what you can expect in the office, job search and careers in 2021! Next up, Dr. Dawn welcomes Gena Smith, SVP of HR from #LVMH to share what is happening in the retail space in the new year, how to upskill, and what organizations are doing to address challenges. Plus news, fun facts, and a special holiday treat! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We interview workplace futurist and thought leader on career agility Marti Konstant on using Agile to change, shift and improve your career.00:35 Insights & Takeaways 06:00 InterviewLinks: Book on Amazon: here--------------------------------------------------------------- The Wicked Podcast: Support us on Patreon: here The Wicked Podcast website: hereFind us on Youtube: here 'The Wicked Company' book on Amazon.co.uk: Buy The Wicked Company website: visit Music: 'Inspired' by Kevin MacLeod Song: here Creative Commons License

The corporate landscape has drastically changed since COVID. Businesses are adapting. But how have they adapted? What are the top skills being used in the workplace? In this episode we cover what’s shifted in the last 8 months. Corporate agility expert, workplace futurist, and best-selling author, Marti Konstant, shares her research and insight on business environment trends in the workplace. With an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and as a former technology executive from Silicon Valley she knows what she’s talking about. A few episode highlights:- The new top 7 “power” skills or most effective soft skills- How to become more agile in the shifting marketplace- The balance of technology and face to face engagement- The rise of emotional intelligence Marti has been helping organizations and businesses for many years and has a wealth of expertise and knowledge. She started The Happy Profitable Employees Project™ when she became curious about what keeps people motivated and happy in the workplace. Marti’s resources:22-page Career Agility Guide30-page White Paper: Cultivate Career Agility, Don't Fight It (for organizations, leaders, and individuals) https://www.martikonstant.com/resources/ Activate Your Agile Career Bookhttps://www.martikonstant.com/book/ AgilityThink Article Serieshttps://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/agilitythink-6625495072857214976/ Marti Konstant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martikonstant/_________________________________** Spirit of Thanksgiving Special **Listener Appreciation GiftThe first five from the U.S. to sign up receive:1. a free Energy Leadership Index Assessment – A Forbes magazine top 5 industry assessment tool and widely used by Fortune 500 companies. 2. a free Kindle copy of Michael’s best-selling book Out of Dad’s Box: How to Break Free From Parental Control and Transform your Life at Any Agehttp://bit.ly/BizAppreciation #emotionalintelligence #empathy #workplace #unconditionallove #powerskills #EnergyLeadership #ELI

“Change is happening so fast that if people aren’t adapting to it and responding to it, and hiring for it, they’re not going to have the people that are going to help them grow and get through the rebound of business that we are in the middle of right now.” - Marti KonstantIn this rapidly changing workplace, today’s guest is helping workers transform themselves, and in turn revamp their workplaces and organizations as a whole. She does this by helping others to cultivate their individual careers and to view workforce development through an agility lens, which expands opportunities for creativity, growth and happiness. Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist and the best-selling author of Activate Your Agile Career. She has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a former technology executive from Silicon Valley. She has been featured in media outlets such as NBC Chicago, Levo League, The Muse and has worked with companies like Samsung, Dow Jones and Apple. She is an investor in multiple technology companies and is an expert in applying agile principles to workforce development.Connect with Marti: https://www.martikonstant.com/Connect with Laura Khalil online:instagram.com/iambravebydesign https://www.facebook.com/groups/BraveByDesign/linkedIn.com/in/LauraKhalilGet on Laura’s Newsletter:http://bravebydesign.net Invite Laura to speak at your live or virtual event http://bravebydesign.netSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/bravebydesign)What You’ll Hear In This Episode: What inspired Marti to do the work she does today, and the valuable lessons she received working with technology companies [1:46]What “A/B testing” your career is - and isn’t [6:42]How to give and receive feedback in a constructive manner [8:06]What Marti believes is management’s role in supporting this type of structure in their workplace [12:36]The reasons that thinking of your career as a series of projects can be really helpful [14:21]What to look for in a work environment that would be more open to having agile employees [16:31]Where Marti sees people stumbling most on their career paths [21:34]The first steps to take if you are interesting in developing your own career agility [28:29]Additional Links & Resources: Marty’s Book, Active Your Agile Career & Her Career Resources and Tools Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go by Beverly Kaye & Julie Winkle GiulioniSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/bravebydesign)

The buzz X2: “Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since the dawn of prehistory…. Coping with this new means liberating ourselves from such categories as ‘human,' ‘technological,' and ‘natural' to embrace a new techno-human relationship” (Allenby & Sarewitz). “Growing up I always considered the interaction of humanity and technology presented in the original Star Trek series as a fairly accurate representation of the way things would someday go. Then came the Next Generation's Borg…our future may have more in common with the Borg” (J. Huang). Uncertainty and dramatic changes are not new, but our human window of tolerance is being stretched to the limit more than ever. As a global civilization, we've been catapulted into the awareness that we need new technohuman ecosystems. How we react, adapt and evolve will define our success. We'll ask Judy Ryan, Jacob Perkins, Marti Konstant and Lynda Roth for their take on Falling to Pieces? Technohuman Game-Changers to the Rescue!

The buzz X2: “Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since the dawn of prehistory…. Coping with this new means liberating ourselves from such categories as ‘human,' ‘technological,' and ‘natural' to embrace a new techno-human relationship” (Allenby & Sarewitz). “Growing up I always considered the interaction of humanity and technology presented in the original Star Trek series as a fairly accurate representation of the way things would someday go. Then came the Next Generation's Borg…our future may have more in common with the Borg” (J. Huang). Uncertainty and dramatic changes are not new, but our human window of tolerance is being stretched to the limit more than ever. As a global civilization, we've been catapulted into the awareness that we need new technohuman ecosystems. How we react, adapt and evolve will define our success. We'll ask Judy Ryan, Jacob Perkins, Marti Konstant and Lynda Roth for their take on Falling to Pieces? Technohuman Game-Changers to the Rescue!

On this episode of Money Savage ENGAGE, we talked about what it means to have career agility, why it’s so important in today’s world, and how to position yourself for success no matter what industry you’re in with Marti Konstant, workplace futurist, CEO and Founder of Konstant Change and author of Activate Your Agile Career .  Listen to learn why it’s important to always be learning and getting better! For the Difference Making Tip, scan ahead to 20:25! You can learn more about Marti at MartiKonstant.com, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Click Here for a copy of Activate Your Agile Career. Time to get your Mind, Body and Money right?  StriveDetox.com Interested in starting your own podcast?  Click HERE George is honored to be included on Investopedia's list of the Top 100 Financial Advisors for 2019! You can learn more about the show at GeorgeGrombacher.com, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook or contact George at Contact@GeorgeGrombacher.com.  Check out Money Alignment Academy as well!

In this episode of Workforce 2030, Marti Konstant, best-selling author of Activate Your Agile Career, joins Alexandra Levit to discuss agility and how to future-proof and take control of your career by adapting and responding to change. Marti has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a former technology executive who has worked in Silicon Valley. She now works as a workplace futurist, keynote speaker, top-career influencer, best-selling author and expert in applying agile principles to workforce development.

A fantastically interesting conversation as we discuss the future of work, culture change, agility, personal branding and much more. Here are the books we referenced. BTW, did you know that Warren Buffet spends 80% of his day reading? I know I'm slacking, are you? Drive, Daniel Pink Startup of You, Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus, a Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari Activate Your Agile Career, Marti Konstant Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans Wisdom@Work, Chip Conley You can reach Marti at https://www.martikonstant.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support

In this, episode we speak with Career Growth Analyst, Workplace Futurist, and Author, Marti Konstant, about how you can use career agility to future proof your career. Marti gives you the roadmap to activating your agility. She breaks down why being agile is an important component for professional growth and happiness. For more information about Marti visit www.agilecareer.com. You can watch the VIDEO of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/NL3nUazdQqM Episode Highlights: [06:34] What Is Career Agility [13:24] Building Your Personal Brand [17:31] When to Activate Career Agility [23:37] The Agility Meter   [27:50] How to Showcase Agility [35:37] Incremental Learning and Change [40:02] Working Within Constraints [43:57] Darwinism and Agility Resources Mentioned in This Episode: #CareerSuccess Inner Circle - www.JenniferTardy.com/IC Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life's Work - https://www.martikonstant.com/book/ Marit’s Career Agility Guide (click the link at the bottom of the page)- https://www.martikonstant.com/blog/marti-konstant-story/

Let’s get real. For your business to succeed, you need a team of happy & productive employees. Which means you need to keep your best people. Otherwise, you’ll always be scrambling to get new ones onto your leaky ship. But how can you keep your best people when we’re at 3.7% unemployment? And when 90,000 headhunters like me are calling them every day? Here’s the irony: To keep them, you need to help them advance their career. That’s right… You have to do everything in your power to prepare them to leave you. You need to help them advance their career. Develop new skills. Build their confidence. Master new skills. But yikes. If you do that, they might leave you. Maybe. Or they may be so grateful …and learning so much… that they can’t afford to leave you. Even when the phone rings. These 2 goals conflict - growing them & keeping them. So, I found an expert Marti Konstant of Konstant Change, to help us make sense of it all. For 10 years, she’s been developing the concept of ‘Agile Careers.’ She knows more about it than anyone I’ve met. In this 20-minute conversation, she reveals what’s most important to your best people. And how to ensure they never leave you.

Join Kim White as she interviews workplace futurist and author Marti Konstant about the principle of Career Agility and the Gig Economy. What’s that? You don’t know what a workplace futurist is? Or you don’t know what “Career Agility” and/or “The Gig Economy” are? If you don’t find out, chances are, Marti asserts, you will be left in the dust and fall into the trap of becoming irrelevant. From what to do with your “Backlog of Ideas,” to “A/B Testing,” to once and for all finding out what your “personal brand” really is and how to make the most of it, Marti Konstant has a lot to teach you about flexibility and strategies you can employ now in today’s quickly changing economy.

Join Priscilla and workplace futurist Marti Konstant as they delve into the vibrant world of Agile! Though traditionally thought of as a methodology for software development, Marti first worked on applying the methods to the marketing process, and eventually to individual career management. The result was her book, Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work. It also led to the foundation of the Agile Careerist Project. In this episode, Priscilla and Marti tackle tricky topics like: • How to maintain team buy-in • Individual career growth • How to move away from siloing and hierarchical job structures • The importance of ongoing learning • And more! Put simply, “If you’ve got more skills and knowledge in part of what is the future of marketing, you’re going to be more in demand and more needed in the future.” This is the “Duty Now for the Future” that Devo told us about. Check the episode out for more details! Like what you hear? Let us know! Subscribe, rate and review Ponderings from the Perch on iTunes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter Hastings interviews Marti Konstant, Career Coach & Author, to discuss the concept of creating parallel paths for your career through things like upskilling, education, side projects, hobbies and more.Check out more of Marti's work at AgileCareer.com and look out for her book, Activate Your Agile Career, on Amazon now (click here).Learn more at InterconnectedIndividuals.com

In this episode, Marc invites listeners to take the 2018 Repurpose Your Career Survey, to help him make this podcast better with your feedback. He invites you to join pre-release readers of the new edition of Repurpose Your Career to read chapters of the book, give feedback, and review the book on Amazon when it is released. Marc reads Chapter 1 of the new edition.   Key Takeaways: [1:12] Marc welcomes you to Episode 104 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast. [1:25] CareerPivot.com brings you this podcast. CareerPivot.com is one of the very few websites dedicated to those of us in the second half of life in our careers. Take a moment to check out the blog and other resources that are delivered to you, free of charge. [1:43] If you are enjoying this podcast, Marc asks you to share it with like-minded souls. Please subscribe on CareerPivot.com, iTunes, Google Play and the Google Podcasts app, Podbean, Overcast app, TuneIn, Spotify app, or Stitcher. Share it on social media, or just tell your neighbors and colleagues. [2:05] Marc has released the 2018 Repurpose Your Career Podcast Survey. Marc thanks listeners who have already taken the survey. Last year, there were about 30 responses. Marc is hoping for 60 to 100 responses this year, with his larger audience. [2:22] To improve the show, Marc needs to know something about you — how you listen to the show; if you read the show notes; what kinds of episodes are your favorites. [2:34] Marc asks if you would kindly go to CareerPivot.com/podcast-survey (where you will be redirected to SurveyMonkey) to take the survey. Marc will publish the results in a couple of months. Marc thanks you in advance for doing this survey for the podcast. [2:57] The Repurpose Your Career podcast will skip a week for Thanksgiving. There will be no podcast next week, to give some folks — including Marc — a break. The following week, Marc will be interviewing Susan Joyce of Job-Hunt.org fame. [3:20] Job-Hunt.org and Susan have been helping people find jobs since 1998. Marc and Susan will discuss the differences between a reactive and a proactive job search. [3:36] This week, Marc starts the promotion of the next edition of Repurpose Your Career, with a planned release date in the first half of 2019. Marc has been working on the next edition with Susan Lahey, and he will be looking for your help. Marc is forming a release team of readers to read pre-release chapters of the book to provide feedback. [4:00] You can be part of this pre-release team by going to CareerPivot.com/RYCTeam, where you can sign up. When you sign up, you’ll receive pre-release versions of the chapter Marc is reading today, and additional chapters when they become available. [4:22] Marc asks in return that you provide feedback and be prepared to write an Amazon.com book review when the book is released. Marc is not asking you to write a five-star review but your honest review. [4:40] Marc begins reading the opening chapter of the next edition of Repurpose Your Career. [4:48] Finally, we’re at full employment. Unemployment rates are below 4%. Everybody who wants a job, has one, right? Not exactly! That’s what most of the data says, but the data seems to be leaving something out. [5:10] According to the AARP Public Policies Employment Data Digest, most people over 55 who want to be employed are. In fact, the unemployment rate for this age group was only 3% as of April 2018. [5:25] Unemployment numbers are based on how many civilians not employed by an institution, are either working or looking for work. Marc goes to a fair number of jobs clubs for job seekers. The faces he sees there tend to be — well, old. Some of that is because these people are part of the long-term unemployed. [5:49] Being unemployed for more than 26 weeks is a real drag on your health and can make you look old. And 22% of unemployed people have been unemployed that long, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But more than a third of long-term unemployed are over 55. [6:09] In Austin (where I live part of the time), the unemployment rate is under 3% — unless you happen to be over 50. If you’re over 50, it’s higher than 12%. [6:21] In 2015, The Atlantic published the article “Where not to be Old and Jobless,” which listed Austin as the number four worst place to be old and unemployed, behind San Jose, Cal., El Paso, Tex., and New Haven, Conn. [6:39] Research by AARP shows that there’s a real danger that unemployed people over 50 — especially women — could become impoverished. So the organization has funded a program at Austin Community College, called Back to Work 50+. It’s a great thing that AARP has funded this program; if we’re at full employment, why is it needed? [7:04] Why are so many people in this age group unsuccessfully looking for work? The statistics they collected don’t include retired people, by the way. While I do know some people who have successfully retired before age 65, most of them are government employees or they retired because either their health or their spouse’s health was poor. [7:30] I know people who gave up looking and just started taking Social Security early. 40% of the people who initiate Social Security do so at age 62. Only 7% wait to take Social Security until the maximum age of 70. This is a real problem. If you take Social Security before your full retirement, you lose a lot. [8:02] If you were born in 1960 and take retirement at 62, you lose 30%. If you were born in 1960 and wait and take your full benefit until 70, you gain 24%. Some people take benefits early and work, too. If you’re doing that and you are under full retirement age for the full year, you lose $1 in benefits for every $2 you earn over the annual limit. [8:33] In 2018, the limit is $17,040. So if you earn $40,000, They’ll take $11,480 out of your retirement benefits. Things have to be pretty rough if you’re willing to lose that much money for the rest of your life. [8:51] Why are so many people over 55 unemployed and looking, compared to the rest of the population? Is it ageism? Is it they don’t have skills for today’s workplace? Or something else? The answer is: Yes. [9:09] Ageism is thriving in places like Austin, where the economy revolves around tech startups. If your skills are up-to-date, you have a solid work history, you’re physically fit, you dress like you know what year it is, you’re not looking or acting old, except for some wrinkles and gray hair, and they don’t hire you, that’s age discrimination. [9:42] I have lots of examples from the CareerPivot Online Community where the members have acquired skills in the latest programming technologies and data science, and still can’t get hiring managers to speak to them. [9:55] Hiring managers don’t want to invest in the careers of people in the second half of life. The reasoning is, they don’t have enough career runway. Considering that most people change jobs every four-and-a-half years, should they be worried about career runway? [10:13] When we are at full employment, should we be worried about having enough career runway? That is an example of ageism. [10:23] However, ageism isn’t always the culprit. If you let yourself and your skills go, it’s something different. A lot of older people try to get by without learning new skills, hoping to coast toward retirement. But in this rapidly-changing environment of creative destruction, their career track may evaporate long before they’re ready to retire. [10:46] In such cases, your experience may not help you get the next job. Think of it like trading in a car. When I traded in my 2003 Honda Element, it didn’t have GPS or Bluetooth. It didn’t have heated seats or any kind of hybrid engine. Plus, it had some wear and tear. It looked like a car that had been on some road trips. [11:10] The dealership offered me a lower price than they charged me for my new car. They discriminated against my Honda Element! If you’re acting like an old curmudgeon, if you’re griping about learning new-fangled technologies, or about the behavior of Millennials, you’re keeping yourself out of the workforce. [11:31] There is no question that we have a skills mismatch in the market. We are seeing creative destruction accelerate through so many industries, eliminating positions of people who’ve honed their skills over decades. I’ve had clients whose whole career worlds disappear in under five years. [11:52] Keeping your skills up is crucial but it's not enough to keep you employed. You need to be creative. You need to be agile. You need to be ready to reinvent yourself after a few years to match what the market needs. Forget about cruise control It’s time to get a manual transmission and learn how to use it. [12:16] Marti Konstant, author of Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life's Work, said it best. “Adapt or be left behind.” You can plan for a future that will be significantly different from today or be left behind. It’s your choice. [12:39] Many of us want or need to work into our 70s. Working in our 70s will not look like working in our 50s. It will, most likely, be a combination of different types of jobs. You’re looking at multiple part-time jobs; starting a side gig; finding different ways to make money. Many of us don’t think like that. We were raised to be employees. [13:04] We believed that finding a job was the quickest, surest way to security. We’d get in there and stay until we got our gold watch. Today, that ain’t happening! For one thing, it’s tough to get anyone to hire someone in their 60s. Beyond that, these days, even companies can’t promise they’ll be around in five years! Your employer won’t save you. [13:29] You have to get creative. More and more people prefer the self-service options to dealing with a human. And more and more jobs can be done by technology. Among the professions the BLS predicts are on the way out are respiratory therapy techs, computer operators, legal secretaries, and everybody at the Post Office. [13:55] Consider how Uber transformed the taxi industry. How Airbnb transformed the hotel industry. And, how the iPhone has transformed everything since it was invented in 2007. [14:11] Among the things we can now do on our smartphones: banking, sending messages, watching videos, making videos, learning languages, listening to music, scheduling, budgeting, shopping, booking a hotel, booking a flight, finding a date, joining a meeting, getting directions, paying for things — and that’s just for starters. [14:35] Because many of these menial tasks have been taken off the table, what remains is often more meaningful. ‘Meaning’ is a key guide to finding your happy place when it comes to ‘work.’ Whatever path you take might disappear in the future, so don’t get hung up on the path. You have to think in terms of constant evolution. [14:59] Several members of the CareerPivot Online Community have taken bold actions to get ready for ‘change.’ One is Mike Martin, a drone pilot instructor, whose story you will learn about later in this book. When Mike started his journey, there was no such thing as drone pilot instructor. [15:18] Camille Knight is a logical creative. She grew up as a dancer and singer. Her first degree was in music and then she went back and got a degree in business. She worked in HR; got spit out of Whole Foods; and reinvented herself as a business analyst. [15:35] She discovered Tableau software that lets her build beautiful dashboards that tell stories. For the first time in her life, she gets to marry both sides of her brain. [15:47] I had a client who said he wanted to be a data scientist and I said, “No, you want to go into a manufacturing site and do scrap analysis.” It’s not enough, just to have a skill; you have to find a company’s pain point; you have to solve a problem. [16:04] We are at an inflection point. You can no longer acquire a skill and be fitted into a job. Things change too fast. If you want to keep on being relevant, you must adapt to the speed of change. You have to find tasks and skills that are meaningful to you and adaptable to new technologies and cultural paradigms — or be left behind. [16:30] Be the mentor you want to see in the world. Betty White said Facebook wouldn’t do her any good in terms of helping her to reconnect with old friends; “At my age, if I want to reconnect with old friends, I need a Ouija board.” [16:47] We used to have mentors who could tell us what to do. Chances are, those mentors are retired. There are no coattails for us to ride anymore at this stage. We are the coattails. Much of our network may be gone. We have to forge the path, ourselves. Part of that is taking up the mantle and becoming mentors to younger people. [17:09] Millennials and the generation behind them want mentors. They want help to know how they’re doing. As one Millennial wrote in The Muse, they’ve been conditioned to seek feedback and advice. So, yeah, they want that in their careers, preferably from someone who won’t tell them that they’re entitled, lazy snowflakes. [17:35] In turn, they can help you tap into areas of the work world that might seem foreign to you. In fact, like the fact that there’s a publication called The Muse or, about how to use Instagram to grow your business. [17:52] I know one freelance writer who meets with her mentees frequently for happy hour. Her mentees have introduced her to new markets and gotten her work in places where she would never have thought to have looked. [18:06] In turn, she helps them with strategies for dealing with difficult clients, insights, networking, tactics for time management, and reassurance that being an adult isn’t so scary. [18:17] We’ve entered a new dimension when it comes to ‘work.’ It’s more focused on developing yourself, ongoing, than on sliding into the position as a cog. The idea of getting old, tired, and set in your ways is a recipe for obsolescence. And that’s a good thing. [18:36] Scientists have found if we treat our brain right, our brains can learn and adapt, right up to death. Now, we just have to rethink the second half of life to stay vibrant, connected, and contributing. This should be fun! [18:53] Marc hopes you enjoyed this episode. The world is changing and it’s your responsibility to change with it if you want to stay relevant. [19:04] To get a PDF version of this chapter and to be on the review team, to help Marc with this book, please go to CareerPivot.com/RYCteam to sign up. Marc and Susan will be adding about eight chapters to the book and rewriting several others. [19:25] Marc will release a new chapter on the podcast and to the review team every four to six weeks in the coming months. Marc is considering starting a private Facebook group to discuss this effort. [19:46] Please go to CareerPivot.com/podcast-survey and take the 2018 Repurpose Your Career podcast survey on SurveyMonkey.com. (Marc thanks the listeners who have already taken the survey.) Marc needs to know something about you so he can improve this podcast for you. [20:01] How do you listen to the show? The big question is if you read the Show Notes! (Marc is finding that more than half the listeners taking the survey read the Show Notes.) What kinds of episodes are your favorite? Marc will publish the results of the survey in several months. [20:29] Marc invites you to pick up a copy of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd half of Life, and when you complete reading the book, Marc would appreciate your writing an honest review on Amazon.com. The audio version is available on iTunes, Audible, and Amazon. [20:52] Marc’s plan for the next edition of the book is to release the print, ebook and Audible versions of it at the same time. [21:03] The CareerPivot.com/Community website has become a valuable resource for almost 50 members who are participating in the Beta phase of this project. Marc hopes to exit the Beta phase in the middle of 2019. It is growing slowly. Remember, you are not alone. [21:17] Marc is soliciting members for the next cohort of the CareerPivot.com Online Community. For information, please go to CareerPivot.com/Community. Those in the initial cohorts in the Beta phase get to set the direction for this endeavor. Every two to three months, Marc holds a mastermind group that discusses what to do next. [30:16] Check back in two weeks (after the Thanksgiving break), when Marc will interview Susan Joyce of Job-Hunt.org fame to discuss the difference between a reactive and a proactive job search.

Jeff Saperstein interviews Marti Konstant, Career Coach & Author to discuss the habits of the agile careerist and how to prepare for the future of work.Check out more of Marti's work at AgileCareer.com and look out for her book, Activate Your Agile Career, on Amazon now (click here).Learn more at InterconnectedIndividuals.com

Bestselling author and career futurist Marti Konstant joins us to discuss how an agile career can create a brighter future for you, your colleagues, and your organization. Why career agility is a priority With customer expectations changing constantly, agility is important in today’s marketplace. But how agile is your business, really, if your career is not? How ready are you to take the next step in your project, in your organization, or ultimately, in your career? “… develop talent value for yourself that wouldn’t exist…” -Marti Konstant Marti Konstant created the Career Agility Model not only to help professionals keep one foot stepping towards tomorrow’s success, but to help them bring more value to their organizations today. Having an agile career, as Marti explains, makes you more successful in projects, careers, and personal branding. But it’s not about learning to do anything and everything at once. In fact, focusing on one great thing can be your ticket to leveraging your other strengths in the future. “Become known for one thing, people will engage you on those other skillsets.” -Marti Konstant So as many of our listeners are interested in building their personal brands while being superstars to their own teams, we’re delighted to have this amazing discussion about how both you and your organization can benefit from career agility. Agility is needed on all fronts to succeed in an ever-changing marketplace, and true career agility starts with the amazing insights and actions Marti reveals in this interview. To find out how to use the Career Agility Model, create an Idea Zone to stay on the ready, assemble and leverage your own Feedback Squad, and more, listen in! Interview Highlights What does it mean to have career agility? [2:20] It seems career agility makes it easier to jump ship, so why is it beneficial to organizations and employers? [4:25] What is an “Idea Zone,” and more importantly, how can you create your own? [6:00] How can a feedback squad help optimize your personal branding? [9:12] If I haven’t found my “true north” yet, then how can I approach career agility? [12:07] How can you focus on being known for one great thing but still be agile and ready for what’s next? [14:35] About our guest Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist, career growth analyst, author, speaker, and founder of the Agile Careerist Project™. Her career path includes: artist, designer, brand developer, entrepreneur, technology marketing executive, and investor. Marti delivers keynotes, workshops and training, where future of work and career agility are central themes. Her book, Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work, was listed as #1 New Release and Best Seller on Amazon. She earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Connect with Marti Twitter LinkedIn Instagram AgileCareer.com Free Career Agility Guide Newsletter Related Content 360Connext® post, How to Focus Learning Paths on Greater CX Success Customers That Stick® post, Keep Stepping to Succeed with Joy Marsden Episode 136: Jane Anderson, Customer Service for Personal Brands Episode 114: Ron Tite, Branding and Creativity Expert We’re on C-Suite Radio! Check it out for more great podcasts   Take care of yourself and take care of your customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Segment 1: Tom Koulopoulos is chairman of the Boston-based global innovation think tank Delphi Group. Tom's most recent book is Revealing the Invisible: How Our Hidden Behaviors Are Becoming the Most Valuable Commodity of the 21st Century.Segment 2: Kim Christfort is the national managing director of The Deloitte Greenhouse™ Experience group, which helps executives tackle tough business challenges through immersive, facilitated Lab experiences, and client experience. She is the author of the book Business Chemistry.Segment 3: Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist with an agile mindset. She is a career growth analyst, author, speaker, and founder of the Agile Careerist Project.Segment 4: Christy Whitman is a transformational leader and the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All and co-author of Taming Your Alpha Bitch. She currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband and their two boys.Segment 5: Brad Hunter is the innovator of iWALK2.0 and the chief executive officer of the company, iWALKFree, Inc.Sponsored by Nextiva and Finagraph.

Marti Konstant reviews core principles of agile thinking. She focuses on what she learned from her body of research and how it applies to people at any stage of their career and life but especially to those who are set in their ways and need a new way to see the world. Listen in for an exciting and purposeful conversation on agility!   Key Takeaways: [:56] Marc welcomes you to Episode 82 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast and invites you to share this podcast with like-minded souls. Please subscribe, share it on social media, write an honest iTunes review, or tell your neighbors and colleagues. [1:25] Several episodes back, Marc asked for volunteers for the “Can You Repurpose Your Career” series. Marc worked with Tim in episodes 48-51.[1:38] Marc has selected two volunteers — Juan, a 55-year old former school teacher, who’s trying to figure out what is next, and Sarah, a marketer who is a square peg. Sarah is in her early fifties and Marc will help her figure what the future may hold. Each of these will comprise of three or four episodes spread out over several months. [2:06] Marc wants you to see how some personalities have difficulty fitting in today’s workplace. Teachers, if they’ve taught for many years, they struggle to find their place in the traditional workplace. They don’t quite feel they fit in, but don’t know why. Marc will explore where they fit in and where they are misinterpreted. [2:48] In this week’s episode, Marc interviews Marti Konstant, author of Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work. Marti is a workplace futurist with an agile mindset. She is a career growth analyst, author, speaker, and Founder of the Agile Careerist Project.[3:13] Marti’s career path includes artist, designer, brand developer, entrepreneur, technology marketing executive, investor, and a 2nd half of life career pivoter. [3:26] Marc welcomes Marti to the Repurpose Your Career podcast. [4:22] Marti talks about a career detour that started early in her life with diagnoses of skeletal diseases that put her in a full-body brace for her high-school years. What it did was taught Marti the value of true friends, and gave her focus on her schoolwork. She learned to adapt to a life of near-immobility. [7:39] Marc relates to that, as he recalls rupturing the L4-L5 disk in his back and being bed-bound for four months. [8:36] Marti started as a graphic designer, then ran a B-2-B business with a partner. The next third of her career, Marti migrated into marketing. She got an MBA and worked for growth-stage technology companies. When she was Chief Marketer at a company, it was sold to a Fortune 100 company. She had been working towards that success. [11:41] Observing engineers, she took their agile production techniques of breaking things into smaller pieces and collaborating on projects, and applied those methods to the marketing business. She learned about formal project management and cites the way it was used to put a man on the moon. [13:06] In 2012 Marti worked with a group of global marketers to apply agile methods to the marketing process. They came up with an agile marketing manifesto. [13:49] Marketing was modestly different from engineering, so the agile method principles had to be adjusted. Marti started thinking about adjusting some of the principles of agile methods to the management of one’s own career. In 2012, the world was reeling from the global financial crisis. People were not adapting to the changes. [14:50] There was downsizing and organizations became efficient. People became consultants who did not want to be consultants. Marti thought the world needed agile methods to adapt to changes. [16:00] Marti reviews “lean” methods — test a product; get market feedback; change the product according to the feedback. It is a subset of agile thinking. Marti put up some LinkedIn Slideshare pieces that were 12-15 slides long, based on 20 interviews she had conducted and they got thousands of views and hundreds of downloads. [17:00] Marti adjusted her interview process and did about 120 interviews of one-third Millennials, one-third Gen-Xers and one-third Boomers. Then she hired a marketing research firm to survey mid-careerists between the ages of 35 to early 50s. Marti learned many things through this project. [17:45] Marti’s big ‘aha’ was that every individual is skewed more towards being set in their ways or agile. Marti found that people who were adaptable and responded to change were able to advance, be happier in their jobs and had the mindset that they didn’t have to worry about things like recessions. [19:14] The career agility model starts with the design-thinking phase of life, when we’re exploring and refining what we want to do. We should never let the design-thinking phase of our life end. Then we determine at some point what our strengths, likes, and dislikes are. We enter the career hypothesis phase. [20:30] You graduate from school or a program, or you learn it on your own, and then you start your career. Marti found that 80% of the people who were interviewed got the job they could get — not that perfect job. Sometimes they ended up in completely unexpected roles. The first job very often impacted their career trajectory. [21:06] The model covers things like having a project mindset, A-B testing your career, the concept of an idea zone (similar to a backlog that software engineers use where they nurture ideas for the next generation of their product), activating the feedback squad of mentors, colleagues, advisors and “learning from dead people.” [22:05] Life and work aren’t about one thing. We are more productive when we explore on the side things unrelated to our core industry or interest. This helps us in the way that we solve problems. Parallel pursuits can be side gigs or freelance work. Meanwhile, optimize your career brand. [22:46] Similar to the five stages of grieving, you don’t have to do the steps of the agility model in order. Many of the most successful agile careerists went through all or most of the steps. [23:08] Marti talks about the project mindset. View your career as a series of projects rather than as one big thing. A project generates excitement. It has a foreseeable beginning, middle and end. When something gets too protracted, it get boring. The ideal segment of time today for a role is about two to three years. [24:46] The project mindset is pretty intriguing because one of the biggest problems we have in our workplace today is lack of engagement. A large percent of disengaged workers are actively negative. [25:15] Marti talks about optimizing the areas of creativity, growth, and happiness. If you are optimizing on these three fronts, you are in the right role and in the zone but it’s always important to think about what’s next. [25:45] Seth Godin proposed the concept of life as a series of projects. Seth started in corporate. Now he takes each of his book ideas, creates a project of it, gets a sponsor, and does workshops around it. Each book project is focused on helping people to be more productive and successful. Marti talks about debriefing and tweaking the project. [27:05] Marc relates his experience of his expected linear career on graduation in 1978. This was the steadfast mindset. Marc talks about the creative destruction of the iPhone and other innovations. Marc has people in his community who are stuck because they want to do things that don’t exist anymore. [28:52] If you don’t adapt, you will be left behind. Marti refers to Joseph Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction. Today the destruction is accelerating. The half-life of an education is now less than five years. Agility thinking is not age-specific. Integrate agility into thinking or you will leave a lot of opportunities and rich experiences on the table. [31:49] You never really know what you’re walking into. When Marti started this project five years ago, she had just sold her company, was consulting, traveling to Silicon Valley, and doing this research on the side. She didn’t know why she was doing it or where it would lead but she was curious and couldn’t drop it. [32:43] She started to ask how she could use this body of work to help people and mitigate some of the pain and suffering they go through in managing their career. She devised models and workshops. She helped people develop career brand maps. She built tools useful in a webinar or an interview. She knew it couldn’t be about her opinion. [34:07] Marti provides exercises at the end of each book chapter similar to the types of things she would cover in a workshop to help people with tools of agility. Marti believes people of any age can learn this and learn to optimize their creativity, growth, and happiness. Marti wants to mitigate the technology overwhelm. [35:04] Marti’s last bit of advice: pick out a hobby or something that challenges you in a way that is exciting for you. Do something on the side that will be useful for you in the future. This isn’t a quick fix. You might find something that could be a parallel track for you and you could find yourself jumping a lane in the near future.” [36:00] In light of chaos theory, Marc recommends you randomly try stuff. “Go take a dart and throw it against the wall and see what it hits.” [36:37] Marti cites Tina Seelig of Stanford: “Experiences lead to passions, not the other way around.” Marti says that is a golden nugget. The reality is testing, experimentation, and measuring to find what you like. Give yourself permission to try new things. [40:27] Check back next week, when Marc starts the “Can Juan Repurpose His Career?” Series.   Mentioned in This Episode: Careerpivot.com CareerPivot.com/Episode-48 “Can Tim Repurpose His Career? Part 1” CareerPivot.com/Episode-49 “Can Tim Repurpose His Career? Part 2” CareerPivot.com/Episode-50 “Can Tim Repurpose His Career? Part 3” CareerPivot.com/Episode-51 “Can Tim Repurpose His Career? Part 4” Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work, by Marti Konstant The Agile Marketing Manifesto Eric Ries The Lean Startup Project LinkedIn Slideshare Eleanor Roosevelt Elizabeth Kübler-Ross The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha Seth Godin Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck Joseph Schumpeter CareerPivot.com/Episode-20 with Elizabeth Rabaey Tina Seelig AgileCareer.com   Please pick up a copy of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, by Marc Miller and Susan Lahey. The paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats are available now. When you have completed reading the book, Marc would very much appreciate your leaving an honest review on Amazon.com. The audio version of the book is available on iTunes app, Audible, and Amazon. Marc has the paid membership community running on the CareerPivot.com website. The website is in production. Marc is contacting people on the waitlist. Get more information and sign up for the waitlist at CareerPivot.com/Community. Marc has three initial cohorts of 10 members in the second half of life and he is onboarding the fourth cohort. They are guiding him on what to build. He is looking for individuals for the fifth cohort who are motivated to take action and give Marc input on what he should produce next. He’s currently working on LinkedIn, blogging, and book publishing training. Marc is bringing someone in to guide members on how to write a book. The next topic will be business formation and there will be lots of other things. Ask to be put on the waiting list to join a cohort. This is a unique paid membership community where Marc will offer group coaching, special content, mastermind groups, and a community where you can seek help. CareerPivot.com/Episode-82 Show Notes for this episode. Please subscribe at CareerPivot.com to get updates on all the other happenings at Career Pivot. Marc publishes a blog with Show Notes every Tuesday morning. If you subscribe to the Career Pivots blog, every Sunday you will receive the Career Pivot Insights email, which includes a link to this podcast. Please take a moment — go to iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or Spotify through the Spotify app. Give this podcast an honest review and subscribe! If you’re not sure how to leave a review, please go to CareerPivot.com/review, and read the detailed instructions there. Email Marc at Podcast@CareerPivot.com. Contact Marc, and ask questions at Careerpivot.com/contact-me You can find Show Notes at Careerpivot.com/repurpose-career-podcast. To subscribe from an iPhone: CareerPivot.com/iTunes To subscribe from an Android: CareerPivot.com/Android Careerpivot.com

In this episode Marc and Mark address questions about pivoting from installer to instructor, re-entering the workforce as a trainer after years of raising a family, and transitioning from IT consultant to full-time CIO.   Key Takeaways: [1:01] Marc welcomes you to Episode 81 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast and invites you to share this podcast with like-minded souls. Please subscribe, share it on social media, write an honest iTunes review, or tell your neighbors and colleagues. [1:34] Next week’s show Marc interviews Marti Konstant, author of Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work. Marti is a workplace futurist with an agile mindset. She is a career growth analyst, author, speaker, and Founder of the Agile Careerist Project.[1:57] Marti has been an artist, designer, brand developer, entrepreneur, technology marketing executive, investor, and a 2nd half of life career pivoter. [2:11] This week is the Q&A episode, with Mark Anthony Dyson of The Voice of Job Seekers podcast. Marc welcomes Mark to help answer listener questions. [2:51] Q1: I am a 61-year-old floor installer. The products change every year the installation is different. I come up with ways to install each product as it comes out. Because of the weight I cannot physically keep this up. What can I do? [3:30] A1: Flooring installation is easier for a younger person than a 60-year-old. Marc suggests doing YouTube videos. Marc found some DIY floor installing videos with a million views. The installer could have someone record the installation on an iPhone. Mark wonders if he needs immediate cash flow because video is a long path to income. [7:32] Mark suggests podcasts, consulting, and training. He could be a source of referrals to other installers for a fee. He could teach installers at retailers like Home Depot. The main thing is to get out of the physical aspect of the installation. SCORE is a source of new business consultation for free. [10:58] Marc recommends the Small Business Development Center near Austin, and many places around the country. Listen to Episode 77 to learn more. [11:20] Q2: After years of corporate training, I took time off to raise my daughter. She is graduating HS in two weeks and I am ready to get back to training. A few of my challenges: I haven’t used much of the new technology since 2008; I haven’t spoken in front of an audience or worked since 2009. Not sure where to begin. [11:50] A2: Mark knew the person and went in-depth with them. Some of the technologies haven’t changed a lot, such as Microsoft Office. What has changed is the way you are going to market yourself. Use social media for business. [14:47] Marc has experience with the world of training, until 2011. He suggests looking at all the want ads, and seeing what tools they requesting. Some examples are Captivate, Articulate, Storyline. They could pick one and learn it to gain experience. These are not hard tools if you understand instructional design. [15:34] Then you can start saying, “I’m translating curriculum development online.” Listen to the last episode where Marc interviewed Carol Fishman Cohen who runs iRelaunch. Employers are more interested that you have the fire to learn the new technology than being completely up-to-date on it. You have to stretch yourself. [16:36] Mark reminds the listener that there is marketing and PR to do to get in front of the right eyes, especially if you’ve been out of the market for years. You’ve got to be doing something and displaying some relevancy. Try Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, and other online learning sources. The cost is worth it. [18:59] Q3: I am 65 and I have been an IT consultant/interim CIO for the last 25 years. I want to finish my career as a CIO at a small-to-medium-sized business. I cannot convince people I am worth the risk. I have worked in so many industries that people say I do not have the necessary experience and I get passed over. What should I do? [19:29] A3: Marc told him to reach out to all the people he has consulted for over the years. These are his weak ties. He needs to methodically reconnect with each one and ask, “I’m looking for some advice. What do you think I should do?” Mark suggests narrowing it to one industry where he can demonstrate he has knowledge. [23:51] He needs to update his resume. It shows jobs back to the ‘70s. No one in the technology world cares about anything before 2010. Technology changes every year. Relationships change too. Keep relationships current. Focus on one field. He must be a master of something, at age 65. [27:26] Check back next week, when Marc interviews Agile Careerist Marti Konstant.   Mentioned in This Episode: Careerpivot.com The Voice of Job Seekers Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life's Work, by Marti Konstant YouTube Mike O’Krent, Life Stories Alive Repurpose Your Career Episode 7 with Mike O’Krent Home Depot SCORE Joe Harper and the Small Business Development Center Repurpose Your Career Episode 77 with Joe Harper Walmart Captivate Articulate Storyline Repurpose Your Career Episode 80 with Carol Fishman Cohen Udemy LinkedIn Learning Please pick up a copy of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, by Marc Miller and Susan Lahey. The paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats are available now. When you have completed reading the book, Marc would very much appreciate your leaving an honest review on Amazon.com. The audio version of the book is available on iTunes app, Audible, and Amazon. Marc has the paid membership community running on the CareerPivot.com website. The website is in production. Marc is contacting people on the waitlist. Sign up for the waitlist at CareerPivot.com/Community. Marc has four initial cohorts of 10 members in the second half of life and they are guiding him on what to build. He is looking for individuals for the fifth cohort. He’s currently working on LinkedIn, blogging, and book publishing training. Marc is bringing someone in to guide members on how to write a book. The next topic will be business formation and there will be lots of other things. Ask to be put on the waiting list to join a cohort. This is a unique paid membership community where Marc will offer group coaching, special content, mastermind groups, and a community where you can seek help. CareerPivot.com/Episode-81 Show Notes for this episode. Please subscribe at CareerPivot.com to get updates on all the other happenings at Career Pivot. Marc publishes a blog with Show Notes every Tuesday morning. If you subscribe to the Career Pivots blog, every Sunday you will receive the Career Pivot Insights email, which includes a link to this podcast. Please take a moment — go to iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or Spotify through the Spotify app. Give this podcast an honest review and subscribe! If you’re not sure how to leave a review, please go to CareerPivot.com/review, and read the detailed instructions there. Email Marc at Podcast@CareerPivot.com. Contact Marc, and ask questions at Careerpivot.com/contact-me You can find Show Notes at Careerpivot.com/repurpose-career-podcast. To subscribe from an iPhone: CareerPivot.com/iTunes To subscribe from an Android: CareerPivot.com/Android Careerpivot.com

Segment 1: Neel Grover is the Founder and CEO of Indi.com, an engagement video platform for Brands. Neel was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Rakuten.com, Buy.com and Bluefly.com where he led great teams and sold over $5 Billion of products.Segment 2: Donald Lee Sheppard emerged from humble beginnings in a Northern Ontario mining town to become a leader in employee benefits consulting and communications. He is currently CEO of Sheppard Properties, LLC and author of “The Dividends of Decency”.Segment 3: Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist with an agile mindset. She is a career growth analyst, author, speaker, and founder of the Agile Careerist Project™. Her career path includes: artist, designer, entrepreneur, technology marketing executive, business advisor, and investor.Segment 4: Guy Israeli is an experienced entrepreneur who financed, built and managed several international ventures in the last decade. Guy is now the COO and Co-Founder of SOLOMOTO, a platform which is all about helping Small and Medium Businesses to create, grow and expand their business across digital and social channels.Segment 5: Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Sponsored by Nextiva.

As part of my Value-Added Series*, this week I'm joined by author and speaker Marti Konstant of the Agile Careerist project. We discuss a wide variety of concepts regarding how to ensure your career stays vital and evolving and stays in front of future disruptions.  * The Value-Added Series invites speakers beyond communications to address issues such as career, finance, current events, etc. to deliver additional value to a broader audience. #podcast #disruption #PR #communications #agilitythink #futureofwork #careeragility #agilecareer --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/paulwoodshow/message

Most Agile Marketers find their way to Agile due to the influence of a technical person in their life. A spouse, a friend, or a former career. However, for Marti Konstant, Founder of Konstant Change, was attracted to the approach due to the Project Management aspects of the approach.Marti states, "I think Project Management sounds kind of boring when you think, 'Oh, I am going to be a Project Manager when I grow up. But if you think, 'I am a Marketing Project Manager and I get to help complete campaigns,' it brings a whole new level of interest and excitement to it."Agile is finding a new home in nearly every business unit in the organization, but what about using it to help you build your career? In this show, Marti Konstant describes her approach to coaching individuals into using Agile methodologies to their careers.BiographyMarti Konstant is a tech marketing veteran and growth hacker focused on kickstarting market demand for startups and B2B tech companies. As Vice President of Marketing at Open Kernel Labs, Marti defined the mobile virtualization space and created demand within the global mobile device market; taking the company from launch to emerging growth stage. OK Labs software is now in 1.5 billion mobile handsets worldwide.She builds on a competence in tech sales and marketing experience in companies such as Apple, Tellabs, Clear Communications, and Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs).Marti began her career as a communications designer, headed up her own marketing communications firm, and launched marketing and branding programs for companies including Westell, Tellabs, Mobius Management Systems and Platinum Technology (CA Technologies). Later, as VP of Marketing at branding consultancy zünpartners, she pioneered process-driven brand research and integrated the voice of the customer to build and position brands for market success.Marti earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois, and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Other points of distinction: creative catalyst, persistent optimist, and avid long distance runner.LinksTwitter https://twitter.com/martikonstantLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/martikonstant/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/martikonstant/Web http://agilecareer.com/Corporatehttp://www.konstantchange.comBook https://enterprisemarketer.com/podcasts/enterprise-marketer-podcast/show-12-marti-konstant/http://emktr.co/EMP-12