Short Bio

Lindsey Pollak is a bestselling author, consultant and internationally recognized expert on next generation career trends. She is a Global Spokesperson for LinkedIn, the author of Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World, and recently collaborated with Levi’s on their new Shape What’s to Come initiative for Millennial women.

Lindsey’s advice and opinions have appeared in such media outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, and her career advice blog was named by Forbes as one of the Top 100 Websites for Women. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Extended Bio

Lindsey Pollak is a bestselling author, consultant and internationally recognized expert on next generation career trends. She has over a decade of experience advising both young professionals and organizations on the changing world of work.

Lindsey is a Global Spokesperson for LinkedIn and the author of Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World (HarperCollins). She recently collaborated with Levi’s on their new Shape What’s to Come initiative for Millennial women.

Her advice and opinions have been featured in such media outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. She appears on several ”Best People to Follow on Twitter” lists, including Mashable’s list of top non-fiction authors on Twitter and Marie Claire‘s 100 Twitters Every Woman Should Follow. Lindsey’s career advice blog was named by Forbes as one of the Top 100 Websites for Women.

Lindsey has delivered consulting, keynote speeches and seminars for over 100 corporations, universities and conferences. Clients and audiences have included IBM, Merrill Lynch, Time Inc., Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Duke, MIT and many others.

Lindsey is a graduate of Yale University and received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she completed a master’s degree in women’s studies. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of She’s the First, a nonprofit organization that sponsors girls’ education worldwide.