From One Job to Portfolio Career – Breakfast Workshop

Stop Climbing. Start Designing™

From One Job to Portfolio Life

Breakfast Workshop

The Portfolio Career Shift for Senior Professionals: an interactive session for people who suspect they are under-leveraging their careers.

One career is a risk strategy.

• If your income, identity, and future all depend on one employer –  that is not stability. That is concentration risk.
• The career advice you were given was built for a working life that no longer exists.
• A single career is the most undiversified portfolio most professionals will ever own.

Stop climbing. Start designing.

From One Job to Portfolio Career is an interactive session built on the PCD Method™  –  the framework that treats working life the way a serious investor treats a portfolio: with diversification, intention, and design.

This is not about side hustles. Not about quitting your job. It is about why the “one employer, one title, one identity” model has become structurally fragile  –  and about the four foundations (Identity, Time, Relationships, Energy) that decide whether a portfolio life will hold for you, or quietly fall apart.

Most workshops on this topic teach mechanics: how to price, how to find clients, how to set up the legal side. We work upstream  –  on the psychological foundations that decide whether the mechanics will ever work.

🗓️ Tuesday May 26, 2026
⏱️ 08.30-10.00
📍Signature Zurich
🎟️ Members 30 CHF, Non-members 40 CHF
🥑 Delicious breakfast (assorted Italian pastries; birchermüsli with fresh fruit; seasonal fresh fruit salad; assorted avocado toast; freshly brewed coffee and fresh orange juice).

What you leave with:

• A diagnostic across the Four Human Borders –  Identity, Time, Relationships, Energy  –  showing where your foundations are strong and where they are not.
• A clearer answer to one question: is a portfolio career actually for me –  and if yes, on what foundations?
• Your Portfolio Career Canvas™ –  a personal starting point for what a diversified working life could look like in your context.

Who this is for:

• Senior professionals reassessing the next decade of their career.
• Leaders in transition  –  post-acquisition, post-promotion, or post-“is this really it?”
• Consultants, lawyers, and specialists whose single source of income feels less comfortable than it used to
• Anyone quietly wondering whether their current role is a platform or a cage

About the speaker:

Anna Schmidt is a work psychologist, entrepreneur, and pioneer of portfolio psychology – the application of work psychology to portfolio career design – which she has developed over sixteen years of research and practice with more than 20,000 professionals in career transition globally.

As CEO of Career Partners Institute, she works with organizations and senior leaders navigating complex transitions, helping them move beyond the traditional “next job” model toward careers built as diversified, intentional portfolios.

Her work evolved from traditional outplacement into Beyond Outplacement™ and Portfolio Career Design™ after she observed that conventional “next job” solutions no longer met the realities of contemporary careers. As the author of the Portfolio Career Design Program™, she now helps ambitious professionals design more option-based, intentional working lives.