Want to transition your career with one of purpose and passion and social impact? Here is your formula for injecting your passion and purpose into your career and creating social good along the way! Still stuck? Check out the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for more insight!

1. Create Your Own
Purpose-Driven
Career
AN 8-POINT FORMULA

2. A purpose-driven career
is not about what you’re doing,
but how you’re being.

4. Be an AND not an OR
What’s Your Passion?
Do You have a Purpose?

5. We are ANDs. We are not an ORs. Be an AND.
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6. What’s Your Passion?
Technology & Inclusion: Enablers of development, equality & socioeconomic growth.

7. Do You Have Purpose? Mine is digital
inclusion!
We measure IQ
We measure EQ
Why not
measure
DQ?

8. Step 2: Document Your Gaps
Be a Learn It All
Find Kindred Spirits
Be Willing to Invest

9. Step 3: Give Yourself Space & Time
Practice mindfulness
Prioritize & organize

10. Step 4: Create Your Plan To Fill The Gaps
Take ownership
Establish realistic timeline & goals
Baby steps

11. Where does Melissa play?
 CEO’ing – mentornations.org
 IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator – ibmz.biz/classof2020
 Digital Skills – ibm.biz/digitalintelligence
 Call for Code – ibmdeveloper.com/callforcode
 Imposter Syndrome – ibm.biz/impostersyndrome
 CDI – coalitionfordigitalintelligence.org
 NLP & AI for Broadband – broadbandpolicy.org
 Out of School Youth in Pakistan – takmil.org
 Female Empowerment in Afghanistan – techwomen.asia
 Vocational Education in Pakistan – hunarfoundation.org

12. Take on stretch assignments
Volunteer with a startup
Give forward to non-profits
Step 5: Go Beyond 9-5

13. Seek bite-sized insights
Reciprocate
Be a friend

15. Step 7: Document Your Journey
Build Your Personal Brand
Be Present Online & Offline
Be inclusive

17. Step 8: Do the Thing

18. Let’s ConnectLet’s keep in touch!