How to Know Your Next Career Move Without Quitting Your Job
A live session for people who have been carrying this for months and have not said it out loud yet.
You read the five signals your own work has been sending you, and you leave with a direction you can name.
Stanford GSB · formerly Apple and private equity · TEDx speaker
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Free. I stay afterward for questions.
You do not have to fit a category. You just have to find yourself in this list.
- You have been sitting with “I need to figure this out” for six months or more.
- Your career looks fine from the outside and does not feel fine on the inside.
- You have already tried something. The books, the coaching, the coffee chats. You are in the same place.
- You are not certain you want to leave. You are certain something has to change.
- The money, the security, the flexibility matter, and you are not willing to set them on fire to find out.
And most of you have not said any of this out loud to anyone.
Sixty minutes. One piece of real work, on your own decision.
The actual name of what is keeping you stuck
It is almost never what people think it is. I will show you the data from hundreds of assessments, and I think it will surprise you.
The five signals
Your work has been sending you data about this for years, and nobody ever taught you how to read it.
You do it, live
Ninety seconds, privately, on your own decision. Nothing you write gets shared with anyone, including me.
Where they point
This is the part people email me about afterward. Most walk in certain they have no idea what they want, and then read their own signals and go quiet.
What actually closes the gap
Not time. Not courage. Not more information. I will tell you what it is and why the things you have already tried could not have worked.
You leave with a direction you can name, and one thing you can do before Monday.
I made this decision twice. Once too late, once on purpose.
Lamiaa Laurène Daif
Career transition strategist. Stanford GSB. Formerly Director in private equity, then Worldwide Sales Strategy for Mac and iPad at Apple.
The first time I was a Director at one of the largest private equity funds in Europe, and I waited until my body made the decision for me. The second time I was at Apple, at the top of my game, and I made it deliberately, with a plan, before anything broke.
Same person. Same fear. Completely different outcome. The variable was not courage. It was that the second time I had a process.
Stanford Graduate School of Business built a leadership case study on those two pivots and the method underneath them. I teach it outside Stanford now, and I have taken more than fifty senior people at Apple, Tesla, Google and McKinsey through it.
At the end I will tell you about the six-week program, and you can decide whether it is a fit for you.
This is live, and the exercise only works live. If you cannot make this one, register anyway and I will put you on the next Thursday.
Thursday, September 3. Noon Pacific.
Sixty minutes, and one real piece of work on the decision you have been carrying.