Reflect, Reimagine, and Relaunch: Pivoting Your Career After a Break

Career breaks are rare opportunities to develop new interests, passions and skills outside the workplace. If you can learn to glean new insights and reimagine your ideal role during a career break, you can leverage your time away from work into a successful career relaunch. In this talk, Managing Director of iRelaunch Elizabeth Gish will share success stories and tips on how to apply your new experiences to your elevator pitch, your CV and LinkedIn, the interview, and ultimately, a new career.

Elizabeth Gish

Bridget Finkeldey

Elizabeth Gish is Managing Director at the career reentry consulting, training, and events company iRelaunch, and has been immersed in career reentry thought leadership for nearly five years. She was a featured speaker at the iRelaunch Employer Summit in 2021, and has an excellent multi-dimensional perspective and highly relevant experience on both the employer and relauncher sides of career reentry programming. Elizabeth relaunched into corporate social responsibility at Oracle a few years before Oracle had a formal career reentry program, and she was instrumental in launching and leading the Oracle Career Relaunch program, in partnership with iRelaunch. Elizabeth earned an MBA from Denver University and a BA from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. She was trained in Design Thinking techniques by Stanford’s dSchool, and has served as an advisor for ReBoot Accel, a recruiting firm that helps companies hire, advance and empower women. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Meg Alexander

Bridget Finkeldey

Meg Alexander joined the PowerToFly community as a job-seeker in 2014, eventually landing her first remote role working for PowerToFly's Delivery Team. Her professional experience includes roles as a Talent Advocate, Head of Purchasing for a window factory, audiobook publishing, & more than 5 years as a paralegal. She has a bachelor's degree in Art History from Indiana University (mint condition, never been used!), where she also earned a varsity letter for Women's Rowing. She loves DIY projects and will never say no to french fries. She lives in Toledo, OH with her husband Aaron, an engineering technician, and their dogs, Radar & Cake.