À PROPOS DE CET ÉPISODE
What happens when you learn that your job is ending before you know what comes next?
After nine years as Program Director for Research at MIT Sloan Management Review, Allison Ryder learned that the publication would be winding down—even though its work remains respected, valuable, and successful. With seven months of notice, Allison is navigating an unusual in-between: continuing to do meaningful work, helping her colleagues close an important chapter and searching for her next opportunity at the same time.
In this episode, Allison and Jess discuss the illusion of institutional stability, the emotional reality of an unforeseen layoff, and the pressure to project confidence while still processing a loss. They also examine how applicant-tracking systems and AI reward exact titles and keywords, often overlooking multidisciplinary experience and transferable skills.
Their conversation explores why professional relationships matter, how networking can help us evaluate opportunities rather than simply pursue referrals, and what it means to separate our identity from the organization that employs us.
An unknown future is not necessarily a dangerous future. It is simply a future that has not taken shape yet.
Podcast Guest: Allison Ryder
Allison connects people, ideas, and organizations and builds the programs that turn those connections into something real. She’s led AI research programs at MIT Sloan Management Review and produces the popular artificial intelligence podcast Me, Myself, and AI.
She’s now figuring out her next chapter: what kind of work she wants to do, where she can have the most impact, and how to translate a career that has never fit neatly into one box into the next opportunity.
Connect with Allison: Allison Ryder on LinkedIn
Website: https://www.unmarketedproducts.com/about
Podcast Host: Jess Lowry
Jessica Lowry is the Founder and Socio-technical Systems Designer at ENID Studio, a collective of practitioners that enable organizations to redesign work, services, and governance for an AI-enabled future through participatory design and human-centered digital transformation.
She is also a member of Effective Immediately, a community for people leaving, or thinking about leaving, corporate life to build something of their own. Members get honest feedback, business fundamentals, and access to people a few steps ahead while they validate their idea, land first customers, and build the foundation.
Connect with Jess: Jess Lowry LinkedIn
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