Bio

Lindsey Pollak is a bestselling author, corporate consultant, keynote speaker and recognized expert on next generation career and workplace trends. She has over a decade of experience advising both young professionals and organizations on the changing world of work. Lindsey is an official Ambassador for LinkedIn and the author of Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World (HarperCollins). She has delivered consulting, keynote speeches and seminars for over 100 corporations, universities and conferences. Clients and audiences have included IBM, Merrill Lynch, Time Inc., Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, MIT and many others. Her advice and opinions have been featured in such media outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, CNN, NPR and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. She appears on several "Best People to Follow on Twitter" lists, including Mashable's list of top non-fiction authors on Twitter and Marie Claire's 100 Twitters Every Woman Should Follow. Forbes named her blog one of the Top 75 Websites for Your Career and CSO Research named her one of the 10 Most Visionary Leaders in Career Services. In her charitable work, Lindsey serves as Chair of the Board of She's the First, a non-profit organization that sponsors girls’ education in developing world countries so that they can be first in their families to graduate from high school. Lindsey is a graduate of Yale University and is based in New York City.