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Designing a Resilient Portfolio Career in the AI Age

Hosted by Christine Perfetti

Tue, Jun 2, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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58 students

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Women Reimagining Summit: Building Portfolio Careers and Expansive Lives
Mona Patel and Abby Covert, Sheena Goss & Malaika Simmons, and Host: Christine Perfetti
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What you'll learn

How Product and UX professionals expand beyond one job

See how Product, UX, and mid-career professionals are building consulting, teaching, advising portfolio careers

The 3 Portfolio Career Models: Anchor, Ladder, and Mosaic

Learn the distinct ways to build portfolio careers and why most portfolio careers do NOT begin with quitting your job

Why the Anchor Model works for so many tech professionals

Discover why portfolio careers often begin with stability rather than risk and how an anchor creates room for experiment

How to identify your own portfolio possibilities

Reflect on your strengths, career capital, energy patterns, and existing experiences

Why this topic matters

Many professionals no longer feel that one role, one employer, or one identity provides enough long-term security. But most people are not looking to completely reinvent themselves overnight. Portfolio careers offer a new possibility. Christine Perfetti shares insights from her own portfolio career journey and patterns observed through conversations with more than 150 UX + Product professionals.

You'll learn from

Christine Perfetti

CEO, Lift Up Connections [Ex-GoFundMe, TuneIn, Acquia, Carbonite]

After 25 years as a Product and UX leader and earning her M.S. in Social Psychology from Brown University, Christine realized professional success doesn’t guarantee fulfillment.


Christine built Lift Up Connections for women who are navigating the messy middle of reinvention, identity shifts, leadership evolution, and life transitions and want something deeper than networking.


Transformation accelerates in community. And mid-career isn’t a decline. It’s a design moment.


  • Master's Degree, Social Psychology, Brown University
  • Guest Lecturer, Harvard Business School and HBS Startup Bootcamp
  • Founder of Lift Up Connections
  • Former VP and Head of User Experience: Center Centre/User Interface Engineering, Carbonite, Acquia


GoFundMe
Penn Medicine
Harvard Business Review
Acquia
TuneIn
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