Lindsey Pollak is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, teacher and corporate consultant. She has a decade of experience teaching young people how to succeed and advising organizations on the changing world of education and work.

Lindsey is the author of Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World (HarperCollins) and writes the top-rated Lindsey Pollak Blog. She is also the Global Campus Spokesperson for LinkedIn.

Recognized as a thought leader on a variety of career and workplace issues, Lindsey’s advice and opinions have been featured in such media outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio 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.

A frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader across the country, Lindsey’s audiences have included Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Duke, MIT, University of Michigan, UT-Austin, Merrill Lynch, Time Inc. and many professional associations and conferences. She is also a teacher for Carnegie & Pollak Test Prep, a Connecticut-based company co-founded by her father.

Lindsey is a graduate of Yale University and received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she completed a master’s degree in women’s studies.

She is a member of the New York Board of Directors of the Step Up Women’s Network and serves on the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Selection Committee in her home state of Connecticut.

Lindsey currently lives in New York City and in her spare time she loves to bake and decorate cupcakes.