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Mickey Fitch-Collins: The Work She Actually Loved | Career Change After 20 Years
A career change after 20 years sounds impossible until you hear how Dr. Mickey Fitch-Collins did it. She was successful in higher education, and somewhere along the way the work stopped matching what she loved to do. She had gone into it to help students find their way, and her days had become more meetings about resource allocation than actual helping.
She calls what came next a discernment process. She asked herself what she actually liked doing, and the answer was clear: any time she had been able to train, teach, or speak, she had loved it. That took her into corporate learning and development, where she now teaches human skills and AI skills to tens of thousands of people a year, from a house in the Wisconsin woods where she gets to be a present mom.
In this conversation:
- The moment two pieces of paper helped her decide to be a leaderWhat September 11th taught her about leading peopleThe one question that led her out of burnout and into work she lovesWhy "mattering versus marginality" became the center of her careerHow she landed a job posting that looked too good to be realWhat success means to her now
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