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This week, Brian Kelly, CEO & Founder of HUMAN Factor Consulting, will facilitate the discussion around designing your career. Here’s some insight from Brian on what to expect:

When did you last design your career around your identity instead of designing your identity around your career?

I spent years becoming exactly who my career needed me to be.

Efficient. Reliable. Promotable.

I became good at it.
I just wasn't sure it was me.

Here's the part nobody tells you:

You can succeed at someone else's definition of success.

The résumé looks great.
The soul isn't sure.

Your career didn't shape itself.
The market shaped it.
The manager shaped it.
The paycheck shaped it.

Identity doesn't follow career.
Career follows identity.

This is the work I do.
Not fixing careers.
Realigning them.

When was the last time you designed your career around your identity?

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