Finalist
Book Title:This Kaleidoscope Career: Empowering Women to Build Unconventional Careers and Redefine Success
Author:Helen Jonsen
Published:2026
How is your book helping others?
Artificial intelligence, mass layoffs, restructuring—the disruptions keep accelerating, and adaptability is fast becoming the leadership skill this moment demands. This Kaleidoscope Career argues that women’s skills, talents, and experience don't disappear between roles—they resettle into something new every time. Their personal throughline makes sense of it all. The book introduces dozens of amazing women who continue to push the lens and find bold new images. With curiosity and resilience, they have risen to the heights of public office, the C-suite in multiple industries, founded and sold businesses, and become sought-after experts in a broad range of occupations. The book includes the Reframe Lens, a 7-step exercise that guides women from reconsidering their past to reclaiming their throughline, and the TKC Power Tools Kit to help early-, mid-, and late-career women stepping into their 3rd/Third proudly position their nonlinear careers.