If there’s one thing that the pandemic and the resulting economic volatility has made painfully clear, it’s that most people need—and want—a dramatically different relationship with work. Whether you are personally experiencing this shift, or you’re seeing the transformation in the teams you manage, the demand for a new model is clear. Join Senior Lecturer Christina Wallace for a discussion of her new book, The Portfolio Life, which offers a framework for work and life. Participants will leave this session with a new model that upends the notion they should have ever been at odds.

Open to HBS Alumni who have registered for Spring 2023 Reunions only.

📘 In The Portfolio Life, Christina Wallace shares her insights on how to build a flexible, fulfilling, and sustainable life by embracing the power of a portfolio approach. Learn from her research, case studies, and personal experiences as she walks us through the process of designing a strategy for the long haul.

💡 Don't miss this opportunity to hear from Christina herself and discover how you can create a meaningful and dynamic career that fits your unique passions and goals.

What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you can make. Your parents’ advice to focus on one career path? It doesn’t work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to student loan debt, the gig economy, climate disasters, and a global pandemic (to name a few). We need a dramatically different relationship with work, one that allows us to define ourselves beyond our paid labor.

The answer? A Portfolio Life. An anti-hustle, pro-rest approach to work-life balance, a Portfolio Life is built on three tenets:

1. You are more than any one role or opportunity.

2. Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty.

3. When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance.

In The Portfolio Life, Harvard professor, serial entrepreneur, and self-described "human Venn diagram" Christina Wallace adapts tried-and-true practices from the business sector to help you eschew the cult of ambition and experience the freedom of building the flexible, fulfilling, and sustainable life you want. Drawing on research, case studies, and her own experience, she walks you step-by-step through the process of designing a strategy for the long haul. Because you deserve rest, relationships, and a rewarding career—not someday, but today. After all, you only live once.

If there’s one thing that the pandemic and the resulting economic volatility has made painfully clear, it’s that most people need—and want—a dramatically different relationship with work. Whether you are personally experiencing this shift, or you’re seeing the transformation in the teams you manage, the demand for a new model is clear. Join Senior Lecturer Christina Wallace for a discussion of her new book, The Portfolio Life, which offers a framework for work and life. Participants will leave this session with a new model that upends the notion they should have ever been at odds.

Open to HBS Class of 2022 Alumni only (with reunion registration).

We’re thrilled to connect you with Christina Wallace, Harvard Business School senior lecturer, startup mentor, angel investor, and author of The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card. In a dynamic conversation moderated by IVY CEO and YPO Metro NY Chapter Chair Emeritus Beri Meric, we will discover how we can achieve a sustainable and happy life full of professional, financial, and personal success.

There is a ton of conflicting advice today on how to achieve work-life balance—guidance varies from prioritizing self care at the detriment of our budgets to racking up multiple side gigs to embracing a whole life approach instead of striving for two balanced spheres. This overload of information leaves it hard for us to figure out the best approach to finding happiness at home and growth at work, all without jeopardizing our success financially. Christina Wallace argues that if we take a three-pronged portfolio approach to our lives, we can cut out the hustle culture while diversifying our financial foundation. We hope you will join us as we learn how to navigate change and build a fulfilling life without sacrificing our finances!

Entrepreneurs know how to mitigate uncertainty and build their companies in the face of the unknown. But do they know they can and must use the same tools to build their lives?

In The Portfolio Life, Harvard professor, serial entrepreneur, and self-described "human Venn diagram" Christina Wallace adapts tried-and-true practices from entrepreneurs, freelancers, and creatives to help you eschew the cult of ambition and experience the freedom of building the flexible, fulfilling, and sustainable life you want. Drawing on research, case studies, and her own experience, she walks you step-by-step through the process of designing a strategy for the long haul.

Because you deserve rest, relationships, and a rewarding career—not someday, but today. After all, you only live once.

Gone are the days of a one-path career. Embrace all that makes you YOU and build a multifaceted life that celebrates all your skills and interests.

How? With a Portfolio Life. An anti-hustle, pro-rest approach to work-life balance, a Portfolio Life is built on three tenets.

3 tenets of a Portfolio Life:

1. You are more than any one role or opportunity.

2. Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty.

3. When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance.

In The Portfolio Life, millennial, Harvard Business School professor and serial entrepreneur Christina Wallace delivers a model for thriving amidst the constant disruptions of the 21st century. Adapting tried-and-true practices from the business sector, Christina makes Portfolio Living accessible and actionable for all readers through practical tools like her Balanced Scorecard, 100 Wishes Assessment, time optimisation benchmarks, and more.

This book encourages you to embrace the Venn diagram of your life and interests, and make it work for you. Portfolio Living grants you permission to step back from the cult of ambition and define your life beyond just your paid work.

Entrepreneurs know how to mitigate uncertainty and build their companies in the face of the unknown. But do they know they can and must use the same tools to build their lives?

In The Portfolio Life, Harvard professor, serial entrepreneur, and self-described "human Venn diagram" Christina Wallace adapts tried-and-true practices from entrepreneurs, freelancers, and creatives to help you eschew the cult of ambition and experience the freedom of building the flexible, fulfilling, and sustainable life you want. Drawing on research, case studies, and her own experience, she walks you step-by-step through the process of designing a strategy for the long haul.

Because you deserve rest, relationships, and a rewarding career—not someday, but today. After all, you only live once.

Failure is inevitable, it happens to all of us. How we choose to react is what matters most. Join Entrepreneur, Consultant, and Author, Christina Wallace, and Host Ashley Sandberg, for an in-depth exploration of failure, the setbacks we experience and the five steps we can take to grow from them. You’ll learn why, every time we fail, we actually move one step closer to success.

Whether you call it the “end of ambition”, “quiet quitting”, “the Great Resignation”, or just a moment of collective burnout, it’s clear over the last few years that we are at a breaking point in our relationship to work. Researchers and reporters alike are noticing a movement to prioritize health and happiness alongside professional aspirations, and to toss out the old model of work/life balance in favor of building a life where work works.

In her new book The Portfolio Life, HBS senior lecturer Christina Wallace has applied financial portfolio theory to career and life management and proposed a new model to address this issue. At its core, a Portfolio Life is built on three tenets:

1. You are more than any one role or opportunity.

2. Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty.

3. When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance.

Join Professor Wallace for this interactive discussion about her work and the implications for individuals and organizations alike as more and more workers embrace a portfolio life.

Join Professor Wallace from Harvard Business School as she shares more about her latest book, The Portfolio Life, and the implications this shift will have for both individuals and organizations. Learn about the tools and frameworks she offers for building resilience, stability, and flexibility in the face of constant disruption.

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Join Professor Wallace for this interactive discussion about her work and the implications for individuals and organizations alike as more and more workers embrace a portfolio life.

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Christina Wallace in conversation with Margit Detweiler

The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card

Harvard entrepreneurship lecturer Christina Wallace and Tue Night Founder, Editor & Publisher Margit Detweiler talk about building a portfolio life—at any age

In her new book, The Portfolio Life, Harvard Business School senior lecturer Christina Wallace has applied financial portfolio theory to career and life management and proposed a new model to address this issue.

At its core, a Portfolio Life is built on three tenets:

1. You are more than any one role or opportunity.

2. Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty.

3. When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance.

Join Professor Wallace for this interactive discussion about her work and the implications for individuals and organizations alike as more and more workers embrace a portfolio life.

This event is hosted by the Harvard Business School (HBS) Association of Boston. Tickets are available to the general public and we welcome everyone to join the conversation.

Christina Wallace joins the leadership, board, and major supporters of the Forte Foundation to celebrate its 20th anniversary. This private event is by invitation only.

In her new book, The Portfolio Life, Harvard Business School senior lecturer Christina Wallace has applied financial portfolio theory to career and life management and proposed a new model to address this issue.

At its core, a Portfolio Life is built on three tenets:

1. You are more than any one role or opportunity.

2. Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty.

3. When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance.

Join Professor Wallace for this interactive discussion about her work and the implications for individuals and organizations alike as more and more workers embrace a portfolio life.

This event is hosted by the Harvard Business School (HBS) Association of Northern California. Tickets are available to the general public and we welcome everyone to join the conversation.

How to Future-Proof Your Career w/ Tiffany Dufu

You’ll learn how to weave your values and dreams with a life of flexibility, joy, and freedom. Christina will teach some tried-and-true practices for portfolio diversification and methods for guiding yourself in the quest for fulfillment and long-term security.