Life After Tech: Redefine Yourself and Discover New Work Opportunities
5 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
There is Life After Tech, and you write your own story. You are the phoenix. Get grounded, plan, rise, and soar.
Life After Tech: Redefine Yourself and Discover New Work Opportunities
5 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
There is Life After Tech, and you write your own story. You are the phoenix. Get grounded, plan, rise, and soar.
Course overview
As we are likely to outlive our tech careers, we must plan our future work areas
This course follows the new Life After Tech book, and we'll do the 18 exercises together as a cohort. Debbie will personally review everybody's exercise work.
Life After Tech is about self-reflection, improvement, and shifting into new work areas. This book is an action-packed journey filled with exercises. The author exposes her vulnerability and her “Phoenix Flight Plan” that helped her figure out what's next. It's better to have a plan and not need it (yet) than to need to enact a plan you haven't made.
Working in technology has become stressful and difficult, if not impossible. Jobs are increasingly hard to find. Layoffs are so common that most of us have lived through at least one, or fear the next one. Many salaries are lower than they used to be. Workplaces feel increasingly toxic, and appear to have abandoned values and ethics. Experts predict that AI will reduce or eliminate tens of millions of jobs in the coming years. Companies prioritize speed and velocity over quality and outcomes.
This topic is so stigmatized that this is the first book on this subject. With sensitivity, bluntness, humor, and 18 exercises, this book aims to provide actionable answers to common questions.
The Discord community, membership website, and other resources make Life After Tech more than a book. https://LifeAfterTech.info It's a support system that welcomes everybody no matter where they are on the ever-changing, working in tech/not working in tech spectrum. You can also find the PDF, EPUB, and audiobook on our website.
Who is this course for
01
Everybody struggling to find the next tech job, but wants to stay in tech.
02
Feeling done with tech work and wants to leave tech, or has already left.
03
Considering a major career or work change, even if they haven’t worked in tech.
04
Trying to transition into tech but feels blocked or excluded, or like there’s no way in.
What you’ll get out of this course
We might be done with tech and tech might be done with us.
Plan what's next, even if we're staying in tech for now.
Do we have to love or be passionate about our work?
How can we feel senses of reward and creativity in the next chapter of our lives?
Where and how do we feel true senses of belonging? Where should we live?
What types of work will match us best? Which of these are likely to be more recession-proof?
A digital copy of Life After Tech
If you'd like a paper copy, Kindle version, or the audiobook, please order that from https://lat.link/book
This course includes
5 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
5 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
18 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Life After Tech: Redefine Yourself and Discover New Work Opportunities
Course syllabus
Week 1
Oct
9
Session 1 - Office Hours - Life After Tech - Cohort #100
Read the book
Week 2
Oct
16
Session 2 - Office Hours - Life After Tech - Cohort #100
Week #2 exercises
Week 3
Oct
23
Session 3 - Office Hours - Life After Tech - Cohort #100
Week #3 exercises
Week 4
Oct
30
Session 4 - Office Hours - Life After Tech - Cohort #100
Week #4 exercises
Coaching and support
Post-course
Nov
6
Session 5 - Office Hours - Life After Tech - Cohort #100
Extra exercises
Meet your instructor
Debbie Levitt
Debbie is a Customer Experience (CX) and User Experience (UX) strategist and change agent specializing in setting houses in order in record time. She has nearly 30 years of experience but has been advised to mention only 15 years on her résumé and LinkedIn.
Debbie is an experienced leader with a track record of building and leading diverse research and design teams, shaping product vision, influencing strategies, and driving initiatives.
She’s a mentor, coach, and team-builder who improves productivity, work quality, cross-functional collaboration, and outcomes. Her experience includes many years of user and behavioral research, evidence-based insights, information architecture, UX and product design, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, iteration, and monitoring user behavior and project outcomes.
She hopes you enjoyed some résumé keyword stuffing.
Clients called her “Mary Poppins” because she flies in, improves everything she can, sings a few songs, and flies away to her next adventure. She was told to take “Mary Poppins” off her résumé because “the hiring manager is looking for a bulldog.” The hiring manager appears to have forgotten that Mary Poppins kicked ass.
Debbie’s 2022 book, Customers Know You Suck, is the customer-centricity how-to manual. She’s proud of the book and knows it can help companies that care about improving quality, value, and business and customer outcomes. However, companies mostly want the business outcomes while skipping the quality, value, and customer satisfaction or delight that would get them there.
“Customer Experience – Customer Centricity” youtube.com/@cx-cc and “Delta CX” youtube.com/@deltacx are Debbie’s two YouTube channels. She has over 900 free educational videos teaching and advising people on product and service strategy, CX, UX, and more.
She’s looking forward to building up a new channel, youtube.com/@YourLifeAfterTech
Debbie isn’t completely sure when she’ll move on from tech—or when tech will move on from her—but if there’s anything she can do for or with you, she loves to find and solve problems. It’s one of her Core Personal Qualities.
Get in touch with her and join the community at LifeAfterTech.info
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