Career Aftershock: How to Reinvent Your V alue After Layoffs, Mergers, and AI Disruption

To every professional who has watched their world reorganise itself overnight - and stayed at the table anyway.

This one began in a hotel ballroom in Columbus, Ohio, on a Tuesday in February, during a career transition workshop I was asked to facilitate for a group of professionals who had, within the span of eighteen months, lost positions they had spent decades building. The room held forty-three people. Most of them were between forty-five and sixty. Most of them were quiet in the particular way that competent people go quiet when the world stops valuing what they know how to do. I had facilitated rooms like that before.