Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra

I often work with my clients at a turning points their life. Such turning points often include changes in our careers, and even in the way we see ourselves - our sense of identity.

Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra is a brilliant guide for navigating a career change that is connected with an underlying identity shift. It is full of examples that illustrate the different ways that this can happen.

The message that I take away from the book is to find small ways to test and experiment with possible new identities to discover those that feel the most solid and true, and make a deliberate effort to develop these to the point where they are ready to play a larger role in our careers.

Changes that may seem sudden from the outside have often been developing in this way for a long time on the inside. So is it time to start experimenting…?