Mid-Career Conversations | Failure is Just a Badly Marketed Pivot

We celebrate pivots once they succeed, but we call them failures while they’re happening. In this session, Natalia Kaplan (MACC ‘15) explores how the words we use to describe our careers shape how we experience challenges and how others see us. Drawing from her own nonlinear path, she shares how the way we frame what we go through can influence confidence, opportunity, and direction, and how to balance being honest about difficult moments while still shaping the story we tell.