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Jennifer Turliuk was dissatisfied in her corporate job, so she quit. But she had no idea what to do next. After university, she, like so many graduates, focused on just getting a job rather than figuring out the career she really wanted. Instead of getting another degree or going back to school to change her career path, Turliuk embarked on a "self-education journey," interviewing and shadowing some of the world's leading professors, founders, and investors from Silicon Valley companies such as Airbnb, Square, and Kiva. What she discovered was not only a way to find out what she really wanted to do with her own life, but also a career-design process that would help others do just the same. Turliuk's career-prototyping framework uses tested strategies and exercises, including quantified self, design thinking, and lean methodology to help everyone from recent graduates to mid-career workers looking for a change.
About the Author
Jennifer's work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Huffington Post, Fast Company, CBS national TV, and more. Her career highlights include founding the first and largest makerspace for kids in the world (MakerKids) , doing marketing and PR for the Matterform 3D Scanner crowdfunding campaign (which raised over $471K - the most-funded Indiegogo campaign outside the US) , helping build a 3D printer for a music video, launching an SMS-based disaster relief project during Hurricane Sandy, being selected as a Startup Chile entrepreneur (as part of a program run by the Government of Chile to foster entrepreneurship locally) , creating her own self-education program which involved being 1 of the top 6 finalists in a competition to shadow Dave McClure of 500 Startups, leading the Canadian launch of Tide Pods (P&G's biggest launch in 27 years) , running Canada's largest business plan competition (the Queen's Entrepreneurs' Competition) , writing one of Forbes Greatest Hits articles, speaking on a panel discussion with Peter Thiel (founder of Paypal ) , doing a TEDx talk in Spanish, being invited to join MaiTai (a group of pro kiteboarders and entrepreneurs) , and DJing for Red Bull. She was selected from amongst thousands to attend the Graduate Studies Program at NASA's Singularity University, and went to business school at Queen's University. She has also spoken at MakerCon New York, Maker Faire Rome, and keynoted MakerCon Norway. She was awarded an honorary degree from Humber College for her contributions to society. In her spare time, she does independent marketing and strategy consulting and enjoys salsa dancing, extreme sports (such as kiteboarding) , improv, 3D printing, and building electronic creations. Follow her on Twitter: @jenniferturliuk
