Engaging author, Gorick Ng, does a deep dive into the 3Cs = Competencies, Compatibility & Commitment. Emerging young professionals, especially first-gen graduates will not want to miss this important resource.

Learn great strategies on how to quiet your inner critic by scientist Ethan Kross. This is a timely and insightful book we all need to guide us through our daily stressors and be a little more mental healthier.

Listen Every Wednesday to this Harvard Business Review podcast. You also might want to check-out LinkedIn Guide to Networking timely talks with charming host Arielle (Elle) Indigo.

Excellent 3 part series on the “What Makes a Good Job”

Part 1: Bruce Feiler talks about his book “The Search”

Part 2: Zeynep Ton, talks about “The Case for Good Jobs”

Part 3: Simone Stolzoff talks about “The Good Enough Job”

YouTuber, Podcaster, ex-doctor, and author Ali Abdaal is informative and entertaining. Starting off his educator career at age 13 with Khan Academy he is now watched by millions for his advice on productivity and happiness. I’m a big fan. And yes, when you listen to him, he talks that fast! I highly recommend his 13 Minute Rule: How to Find a Career You Genuinely Love YouTube video. His book, Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You, is a must read.

Helen & Sarah are British & brilliant and on a mission to democratize reosources! Check out their Sguiggley Careers podcast and Amazing If site which has loads and loads of insightful & practical career development exercises & experts.

Jenny started the Career Guru program at Google & hosts a podcast on her entrepreneurial journey. One of the first to talk about career pivots, her work keeps evolving & informing.

If so, Author Octavia Goredema highlights essential career strategies for underrepresented women. This is the book I wish I had when entering the world of work. Everything she writes resonates.

Reading Lindsay Pollak’s book and watching her LinkedIn Learning videos is like having a dialogue with a knowledgeable, friendly, and motivating career advisor. She does not disappoint in this comprehensive career guide with actionable advice for navigating your career throughout life.

Identify and follow your RED threads with Marcus Buckingham, cofounder of Gallup’s StrengthsFinder. Sprinkled with research and uplifting stories, it reminds us to reconnect with ourselves to reengage with our work. Worth the read & just what I needed to hear now.

Amplifying diverse voices with Professor Laura Huang. Her advice - stand out in a good way by leaning into what makes you extraordinary. Also, check out her creative and illuminating MBA Meal article on amplifying authors who don’t make it on the traditional business program reading list.

Rufus Griscom hosts this engaging podcasts and the learning platform is curated by our faves Malcom Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, Adam Grant & more. Note, there is a monthly fee (< $9 USD) but well worth all the active learning you get; the 10 min book bites are priceless.

Listen to inspiring stories from people who took this leap sharing their successes & set backs as they navigate encore careers, speaking of which - I also highly recommend The Encore Handbook by Marci Alboher based on a movement spearheaded by CEO and Founder of encore.org, Marc Freedman.

Dynamic duo Oprah Winfrey & Arthur C. Brooks discuss the art & science of happiness with compelling global stories based on the neuroscience of happiness. Also, check out Arthur C. Brooks’s book From Strength to Strength talking about generativity and crystalized intelligence.

Dr. Mandy Lehto expertly guides us on letting go of our people-pleasing and overachieving selves for a more easeful life. Listen to bi-weekly Thursday episodes.

Timely and transformative book by authors Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley on paradigm shifts and how we can thrive by working to learn and adapting technology while embracing our humanity. Foreword by Thomas L. Friedman.

Learn about how we learn with Whitney Johnson using a 3 point framework - launching point, sweet spot, and mastery.

Futurist, author, and headstand extraordinnaire April Rinne shares insights on how building a career portfolio helps us thrive through change.

Professor Mauro Guillén, a sociologist, political economist, and management educator creates conversation on why we need to rethink education and work beyond our limiting definitions of generations. We will all need to be fluid learners no matter our life stage. For further thought provoking future trends, check out his 2030 book.

Master storyteller, Bruce Feiler, knows how to tell a story or two…or even several hundred of every day Americans figuring our their purpose, navigating “lifequakes” and embracing the journey. His new book, The Search, continues the important conversation on finding meaningful work while navigating “workquakes” in a post-career world.

Listen to the Good Life Project podcast with host Jonathan Fields, creator of the SPARKED assessment type and podcast by the same name. Wonderful guest experts share their intimate and inspiring stories on how they find purpose, meaning, and connectivity for living fully engaged.