Joan Michelson is a career coach, dynamic public speaker and host of the acclaimed podcast Green Connections Radio with women innovators making an impact. @joanmichelson or greenconnectionsradio.com
Some people think that the only time to make a job change is for a promotion, an obvious promotion, like from Director to VP. But that’s an outdated model that does not suit an innovative economy that’s developing new technologies, new businesses and new sector needs every day. Women especially can often benefit from lateral career moves, because they are more likely to get stuck in the “it’s-not-your-time-yet” quicksand and a lateral move may actually be a path up.
You may even discover a whole new industry you want to be in, as many of us in the energy-climate-sustainability sector did. After all, many women now in mid- or senior-level entered the workforce before this sector was as established as it is today, like Wendy Vittori. She started her career in computers and took a circuitous route to now be leading an organization bringing transparency to the building sector, including green construction.
I also heard this from Lisa Brown, PhD, a marketing leader in Volkswagen in the Southeast Region, who recently completed her Ph.D. with a study on women’s careers in the automotive sector. She said she did “not understand that there was still more money to be made over the long term by doing lateral moves,” until some of her male colleagues explained how they had earned raises by taking lateral roles, so she embraced these moves as well and has excelled as a result.
Many C-level executives worked their way up in lateral roles across various aspects of the business before becoming CEO, indeed those helped prepare them to be CEO.
The zig-zag certainly paid off for Mary Barra and Wendy Vittori, and probably every woman in the “most powerful” lists.
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