The 2020 pandemic changed everything for everyone the world over. John Dewey famously stated, "We learn not from experience, but from reflection on experience” and now is the time to reflect upon what we thought we knew about career development, what we have experienced during 2020, and what we must do to enrich our career practice and the lives of our clients moving forward.

Now is the time to understand, clarify, and adapt our career practice by “flipping the script” on VUCA to change the frightening into the fierce. What will our client work look like when we parlay Volatility into Velocity, Uncertainty into Unorthodoxy, Complexity into Creativity, and Ambiguity into Awesomeness? 

Our career services will be more engaging, energizing, and purposeful for us as career practitioners and them, our clients. In this session we will:

1. Briefly review human evolution and neuroscience to predict what an adapted career practice for the post-pandemic world will need to be. 
2. Conceptually understand the perspective shift from “ bad VUCA” as we know it today to a useful, adaptive, fierce VUCA.
3. Demonstrate fierce VUCA with 4 specific ideas to achieve this paradigm shift in sessions with clients.

Brian Hutchison, Ph.D., LPC, CCCE is Core Faculty in the School of Counseling at Walden University, USA. Dr. Hutchison received his doctorate degree in Counselor Education & Supervision from Pennsylvania State University and has worked as a career, school, and mental health counselor and clinical supervisor. Brian’s career consultation and education work operates within the brand of Global Career Guy where he specializes in developing career publications, programs, keynote talks, workshops, and on-line career coaching and mentorship for global career professionals. He has more than four dozen publications and is currently writing the 13th Edition of School to Career, a textbook for high school students.