What It Takes to Make a Major Change

Women at Work

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Amy burnstein: Ad, you really heard it in bridget's conversation and her thinking around that two hour commute. And i think lots of women are considering that if i'm not able to sustain these changes that i've made, this life style that i've gotten used to,. That has all these upsides for me right? She says our sense of what we have to endure to get what we want has changed dramatically.

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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