This Kaleidoscope Career

Empowering Women to Build Unconventional Careers and Redefine Success
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-11-914366-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 394 g

Artificial intelligence (AI), mass layoffs, restructuring—the disruptions keep accelerating, and that adaptability is fast becoming the leadership skill this moment demands.Women’s skills, talents, and experience don't disappear between roles—they resettle into something new every time. Their personal throughline makes sense of it all.That's what is about. The book introduces real women with real experience who continue to push the lens and find bold new images—sometimes with challenges, often with wins, but always exciting. Their stories are authentic and vulnerable. With curiosity and resilience, they have risen to the heights of public office, the C-suite in multiple industries, founded and sold businesses, and become sought-after experts in a broad range of occupations. This book is for women at any age and stage, whether corporate executives and entrepreneurs, working moms, singlewomen, gay and straight, ethnically diverse, from Millennials to Boomers. The challenges they face have accelerated. In addition to a fact-based narrative, the book includes the Reframe Lens a 7-step exercise that guides you from reconsidering your past to reclaiming your throughline, and the TKC Power Tools Kit to help early-, mid-, and late-career women stepping into their 3rd/Third proudly position their nonlinear careers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jonsen, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Ausbildung, Jobs, Karriere: Human- & Sozialwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Berufe, Ausbildung, Karriereplanung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Ausbildung, Jobs, Karriere: Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Jonsen’s kaleidoscope career includes journalist, public servant, entrepreneur, and executive at the confluence of digital media and business disruption. Helen is the host and producer of , a multiplatform production of including a podcast series and other content. As a broadcast and digital journalist, Helen has been an on-air correspondent and senior producer covering local, national and international news for American and Australian networks and in senior management at premier publishers.

As a senior editor and executive producer at Forbes Media, Helen created, edited and hosted plus and other series while overseeing all video news production. Steve Forbes referred to her as “our video guru.” There she interviewed and told the stories of bold-faced names in business, government and philanthropy. For Working Mother Media, Helen created and edited vertical and expanded online blogs and service journalism for working women with families. 

Helen has contributed to two books for women’s audiences:  and . Her chapter, “Six Degrees of Hillary Clinton” is part memoir part observation. Helen is the author of four trade books on Australian travel and language for Americans for Hippocrene Books, NY. In addition, she has published two recently released children’s books in her “Magic of the Holidays” picture book series.

Helen has worked with and advised start-ups and early-stage media firms and, more recently, she held senior public affairs roles in New York City and neighboring Westchester County. She and her Aussie husband now make their home in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. She is on the Board of the Hudson (NY) Children’s Book Festival, serves on the development committee for CureSearch Children’s Cancer Foundation and is a lifelong Girl Scout.