What everyone needs to know in the first decade of their career (but nobody teaches you)

There are a million things to learn in the first decade of your career, but no official guidebook for learning them. Maybe you luck out and get a great manager -- but more likely, you're stuck learning on your own.

Join us for a fast-paced, 1-hour event where executives from Western Union, Penguin Random House, and Section will share their "lessons learned" from the first 10 years of your career, and equip you with behind-the-scenes insights to accelerate your own progress.

We'll discuss:

  • The "unwritten rules of business" that everyone expects you to follow, but no one teaches
  • Big mistakes + big lessons learned from the first 10 years
  • The skills that every high-performing 30 year old should master now

Meet your speakers

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Elaine Lin Hering

Elaine Lin Hering is a former consultant at Triad Consulting Group, a lecturer at Harvard Law School, and the author of the forthcoming book Unlearning Silence from Penguin Random House. She has taught executive education at Harvard, Dartmouth, Tufts, UC Berkeley, and UCLA, and has coached clients including American Express, Capital One, Google, IBM, Merck, Nike, Salesforce, Pixar, and the Red Cross.

René Insam

René Insam is the current head of the Western Union point of sale platform, and leads a product/platform team with a presence in 200 countries and more than 550,000 agent locations. He has previously held roles at American Express, Charles Schwab, AIG, and Morgan Stanley.

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