Career transitions can be daunting, but the path to clarity involves less planning than you might think. In this course, Herminia Ibarra reveals why the conventional "plan-then-implement" approach to career change often fails while the "experiment-and-learn" strategy effectively transforms professional lives.
Herminia Ibarra is a professor at London Business School and a leading authority on career development. Thinkers50 ranks her among the top management thinkers in the world. She is also the author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career.
Learn where conventional career advice falls short and how it limits opportunities. Discover how to design low-risk career experiments that test options before making risky leaps. Find out how and why to imagine "possible selves" and leverage weak ties to open up unexpected opportunities. Plus, get specific strategies for networking conversations when you're not sure what to say.
This course was created by Pete Mockaitis of "How to Be Awesome at Your Job". We are pleased to offer this training in our library.
- Issuing Organization: LinkedIn Learning
- Issue Date: November 24, 2025
- Credential ID: 8dcd0124f96d3a1cdd5e620f44c4d1256a4ce736d263f1dbb6c3c1f5cc57e066
- Credential URL: Course Completed
Unconventional Approaches to Reinventing Your Career
Career transitions can be daunting, but the path to clarity involves less planning than you might think. Herminia Ibarra reveals why the conventional approach to career change often fails while the strategy effectively transforms professional lives.
Last Updated: March 24, 2026
