Most people hear pivot and think something went wrong. Andrea Wade thinks that’s backwards.
Today’s word is PIVOT. Not as a crisis, not as a retreat. As a design.
Andrea Wade is the founder of The Pivot Lab, where she helps experienced professionals navigate career transitions with confidence. Deloitte. Arthur Andersen. Mattel. Bank of America. Years as an agent at Creative Artists Agency before she built her own. Her path has never been straight, and that is the point.
We get into why a layoff feels like rejection when it usually has nothing to do with you. Why the outside world has no idea what your title means. What Andrea calls career insurance, and why you build it before you need it. Her four-part framework: reflect, research, reframe, relaunch. And the line that stopped the whole conversation, which is that you cannot be creative and dream if you are exhausted.
Andrea leaves you with one thing. Zero in on what you are curious about, and what you are nervous about. Then get closer to both.