This Kaleidoscope Career

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 This Kaleidoscope Career: Empowering Women to Build Unconventional Careers and Redefine Success is about. The book introduces dozens of amazing women 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.