What Are Your Thoughts About Reintegration?

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In her article about three phases, the separation, where we're separated from our current routines or our current way of working. This liminality, this sort of inbetween stage where we haven't fully embraced this new identity. And then the third piece, which is the integration, where we actually take these ideas about who we can be and make them actionable. In those three phases, where would you say you are now, and what's for you the sor of next frontier?

It’s one thing to know you want to upgrade your work life. It’s another to take the steps necessary to establish a new routine and career outlook. There are three phases to any major life change, according to management research findings: separation, experimentation, and reintegration.

Making a change is possible, manageable, and worth the effort. As proof, two women who are well into the process reflect on the steps they took to come as far as they have, as well as the payoff they’ve seen in their lives.

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Shilpa Bhandarkar is the CEO of the tech venture arm of a law firm.

Bridget O’Brien is a marketing director within a large health system.

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