1. The “Portfolio” Career
A benefit of being a therapist is that you also have
the opportunity to enjoy other kinds of work…
Books/Writing
Academic
Consultative
Humanitarian
All the above
10. Cool Tools
There are a number of goodies that you now have
from this conference, and please to take a look-see
sometime at the Getting Started and Getting Better
books for more details, examples and mechanics—
beyond just marketing. And here are a few more…
Feel free to keep in touch as well:
DrChrisStout@gmail.com
11. Wouldn’t it be great if…
There was a way to not have to be on a million ListServs
getting 2 million emails, most of which are not helpful…and
still be able to stay on top of what’s going on?
And to not have to worry about missing something important
while away on vacation or just during a busy time?
Almost daily I scour over two dozen newsfeeds and collect the
best content I come across, relevant to my curated Table of
Contents.
Two to four times a month I then upload this content into a
DropBox account.
18. GLG Research
Earn consulting fees
Educate business and investment leaders
Network with global leaders
Participate at your convenience
Be confident of privacy and integrity
850+ client firms worldwide
19. GLG Research
Expand Your Consulting Opportunities
11,000+ consultations each month
35,000+ GLG News posts authored by Council
Members
60,000+ paid survey respondents
20. Council Member Eligibility
Provide GLG with complete and current information about yourself,
knowledge, current employer, employment history and off-limits topics
and conflicts
Complete an on-line Council Member Tutorial about their confidentiality
obligations and about GLG's additional compliance rules
Signed current version of the GLG Terms and Conditions of Council
Membership ("Terms and Conditions"); GLG's Contract Management
System tracks the version and exact date of the Council Member's
agreement, and systematically enforces annual recertification and upgrades.
24. Learn who authors what you like best in your specialty
Do your homework on who you want to learn
from
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Saul Wurman
Read outside of your specialty, too
Be willing to pay dues (laterally and figuratively)
Be willing to delay gratification
You can do (almost) anything, if time limited
25. Be curious
Be active and adaptive
Be patient and impatient
Network like a fiend
Remember to Never Eat Lunch Alone..!
Volunteer
Do lots for free when starting out
No such thing as scutwork, there are just low
paying opportunities
26. Willingness to volunteer
State Legislative (liked advocacy) Co-Chair
Chair FAC SLC
Parallel track as SPA “Area-code” rep
All built experience to go for Prez
Easier today to get involved in Divisions, State
associations and APA
Cheaper to “sample” as a grad student or EC
27. Volunteer to be on a committee co-chair or
chair higher level leadership
Once a state Prez SLC and connect with APA
leaders
Once a past-prez, go for Fellow in APA via Div 31
once a fellow in one division, much easier to get
be a fellow in others
Lisa Grossman’s how-to chapter.
28. Research Publications and Presentations
Press Releases on P&Ps Lead to Interviews
Interviews lead to more Interviews
Collect your reprints/media appearances and organize
and have at the ready
Blog and Tweet
CNBC, CNN, WGN, NBC, PBS, NPR, Medical Rounds,
Chicago Tonight, CL-TV, Oprah, Eye On Harvard,
Christina, Time, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal,
Men’s Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Women’s Day,
Modern Healthcare, Associated Press, Child Magazine,
Chicago Sun-Times, Windy City Sports, Monitor on
Psychology, yada yada yada...
29. Apply for things
Awards
Gigs
• Thickens the skin
• Makes less intimidating
Be the Psychologist/Social Worker/Therapist
at the table
Public Health
• Fellowship
• Board of Health
WEF/GLT/Davos…
30. Be opportunistic
Luck favors the well prepared
Get a Mentor or Coach or Consultant (or two)
Doesn’t have to be a psychologist
Be prepared to pay for it (you paid for classes, right?)
Creatively barter
• Swap pro bono Rx for mentorship
36. To-date:
Approximately 20,000 people
(orphans and the very poor) have
received medical services and
food.
70 orphans have been educated
in the kindergarten.
In 2010: “73 cents-a-life”
Campaign
We partnered at Humuma and
Kibosho Hospitals to provide
meds.
4100 people were successfully
treated for malaria.
28% of those were infected
children under the age of five.
46. Think about what interests you or
how you could make a difference
Scale is unimportant:
Mother Teresa said “If you can't feed a
hundred people, then feed just one.”
The Power of the Small Project