How to Pivot Your Career Without Starting Over: with George Hammer

SEASON 3 | EPISODE #6
Maximize for happiness with purposeful career pivots.
A career isn't something that happens - it's something you make. Building a professional trajectory that puts happiness in the driver's seat doesn't have to just be wishful thinking. When you make it a priority, being happy in your job becomes part of the calculus for your decisions, your learning, and your results.
In this episode of Real Creative Leadership, George Hammer, Global Head of Marketing at Tripadvisor, talks about his deliberate career pivots that reflect his choice to lean into happiness and opportunities to learn. He shares how failures are actually wisdom and keys for understanding what makes business go, what makes teams better, and what makes creative work both satisfying and good.
Listen now to learn what a career looks like when you choose to craft your own story.
Watch this episode to discover:
- How career pivots represent intentionality.
- Where to spend your time to keep your skills relevant
- Who to learn from in order to move the creative needle
- Why creatives need to learn their company's business
- What makes a professional pivot purposeful in the creative realm
Mentioned in this show:
► Tripadvisor - www.tripadvisor.com
► Mindshare - www.mindshareworld.com
► The Second City - www.secondcity.com
► Digitas - www.digitas.com/en-us
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This video has been so reassuring and given me confidence that having a broader career path IS beneficial as opposed to going through the regular ranks. Thank you Adam and George, I needed to hear this.