Squiggly Career Paths : Navigating Career Pivots for Success
Careers rarely unfold in a straight line. Whether driven by curiosity, changing priorities, new opportunities, or unexpected challenges, many successful professionals have taken winding paths to reach where they are today.
Join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring leaders, including a HBA Luminary, who have successfully navigated career transitions across functions, industries, and roles. Through candid storytelling, they will share how they recognized when it was time for a change, overcame self-doubt, leveraged transferable skills, and turned uncertainty into opportunity.
Adding a unique perspective to the conversation, an HR professional will share insights into how career pivots are viewed by recruiters and hiring managers, what makes candidates stand out, and how to effectively position your experiences and skills when pursuing a new direction.
Whether you feel stuck in your current role, are actively considering a change, or simply want to explore new possibilities for growth, this session will provide practical strategies for building confidence, expanding your network, identifying transferable strengths, and taking intentional steps toward your next opportunity.
You will leave with fresh perspectives, actionable advice, and the reassurance that career growth does not have to follow a predictable roadmap. Sometimes the most rewarding opportunities emerge from the twists, turns, and unexpected detours along the way.
Come be inspired, ask questions, and discover how a "squiggly" career path can lead to meaningful growth, fulfillment, and new possibilities.
Learning Objectives
- Gain insights from professionals who successfully navigated career pivots
- Actionable approaches to building transferable skills, expanding networks
- Understanding hiring perspective from HR
Agenda
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Arrival, welcome and HBA introduction |
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Dinner, panel discussion |
8:00 PM - 8:30 PM | concluding remarks, open networking |
Additional Event Information
- Light dinner will be served. Parking is free on site!
- Online registration deadline: 24 September 2026
- Event is open to: HBA Members and Non-members
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This event is not refundable.
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Onsite (walk -in) registration: Is Not Allowed
Pricing
| Regular Registration - In-person | $30.00 / €30.00 | $45.00 / €45.00 |
| Sponsor Registration - In-person | $30.00 / €30.00 | $45.00 / €45.00 |
Members receive up to 50 percent discount
Event Policies
Photography Policy
By registering for this event, you acknowledge that you may be photographed, videotaped, and/or audio-taped during the meeting and hereby give permission for your image, voice, or survey comments to be used in education, training, promotion, and/or trade and communications media by the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association in any and all media throughout the world, without restriction as to frequency or duration of usage.
COVID-19 Policy
The HBA requires that all persons who participate in in-person events do so at their own risk and that each participant agrees to the following agreement before taking part in the activity and urges all participants to act in such a manner as to protect their own safety and the safety of others.
By registering for this event, I fully understand that my participation in the program is purely voluntary. I desire to participate and agree to act reasonably and prudently under the circumstances. I further understand that any HBA volunteers participating in the activity will act individually and will not represent the HBA. As a condition to my participation the activity, I waive and release the HBA and their officers, employees, and agents from any claim that I may have for any damage to property or injury to my person that may result in whole or in part from my participation.
Special Needs Policy
The HBA will make reasonable modifications to policies and programs to ensure that people with special needs can enjoy all of its programs. Contact us if you require special accommodations for this event.