How do we find the access points that allow us to move between our different professional identities, and therefore hybridize ourselves?

Your developmental network is the people in your life who are actively and currently (sometime in the last year) supporting or advising you about your professional goals or career in some capacity.

Awakening to our hybrid professional identity is when we own the constellation of our multiple professional selves.

When we're faced with life challenges, we question our values and belief systems. These moments trigger internal unrest, self-examination, and existentialism.

Each person has a hybrid title that differentiates them, catches your attention, makes you more curious to read on, and helps you see them for their wholeness!

Quite literally, Meow Wolf is hard to define, describe, and put into a words because it represents hybridity at its finest. Meow Wolf collides genres, senses, spaces, and time together. Literally, Denver's Convergence Station collapses time and transports you through multiple dimensions. This is hybridity in action.

If we have 80,000 hours to spend in our career, there's a high chance we're going to try on or evolve into multiple professional identities across that time span, and it's unlikely it will be a linear progression.

Calling someone crossdisciplinary versus interdisciplinary are two very different ways of describing how they work. Why would you want one over the other? These are things that need to be considered in HR hiring decisions and team management practices for the future of work.