Konstant Change - Combining Career Agility and Futurism
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Marti Konstant and I share an interest in futurism and shifting mindsets to help people succeed in the future of work. In this episode, we talk about the importance of being adaptable, combining your existing skills and interest to create innovative new ones and how to experiment with AI and why it's important to at least consider how you'd use it.
Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist with an agile mindset. She is a career growth analyst, author, speaker, and founder of the Happy Profitable Employee Project™.
An early adopter of workplace trends and technology change, her career path includes: artist, designer, entrepreneur, technology marketing executive, business advisor, and investor. Starting her profession in the tech sector launched a style of deliberate career growth, guided by personal preferences.
As a marketing professional, Marti managed marketing programs for companies like Samsung Mobile, Apple, Tellabs, Platinum Technology, Clear Communications, and Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs). As a chief marketer in the mobile security space, her digital demand generation and market awareness strategies resulted in the acquisition of OK Labs by General Dynamics
What started out as a quest to fine-tune her evolving career sparked a research project, workshops, and book, where future of work and career agility are central themes. Her story-driven book, Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s work, is the result of 120 interviews and custom research.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois, and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. A persistent optimist and prolific photographer, she lives in Chicago with her husband.
She is a runner, hiker, long walker, and avid photographer.
Other background if you want to add to podcast at the end: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martikonstant/ Website: https://www.martikonstant.com/ Foundation article on agility: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-career-agility-marti-konstant/89 episodes