Lindsey Pollak is an author, speaker and corporate trainer specializing in career development for Generation Y college students and young professionals.
Lindsey writes a top-rated career blog, Lindsey Pollak Blog, and is the Career Contributor for ABC News on Campus. She also contributes columns to FastCompany.com and The Huffington Post. A noted expert on career issues, Lindsey’s advice has been featured in such media outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, CNN.com, Monster.com, Martha Stewart Living Radio, National Public Radio and ABC News America This Morning.
She is the author of the popular career advice book for college students and recent grads, Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World (HarperCollins, April 2007) and co-author with Diane K. Danielson of The Savvy Gal’s Guide to Online Networking (Or, What Would Jane Austen Do?).
Lindsey’s professional speaking includes frequent keynote speeches and seminar presentations at universities, conferences and corporations around the country. College audiences have included Amherst, Columbia, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Northwestern, MIT, Syracuse, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, UNC-Chapel Hill, USC, UT-Austin and Yale. Conference audiences have included the American Society of Interior Designers, Financial Women’s Association, New York Times Job Market Career Series, the National Association for Campus Activities, the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals and United Jewish Communities National Recruitment Corps.
In her corporate work, Lindsey facilitates training workshops on such topics as managing generational differences, business writing, social networking, personal branding, negotiation and presentation skills. She has worked with such organizations as A&E Television, Citi, Fidelity, Liz Claiborne, MTV Networks, the National Basketball Association, sanofi-aventis, T. Rowe Price and Time Inc. She is affiliated with The Madison Consulting Group and Negotiating Women.
A graduate of Yale University, Lindsey received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she completed a master’s degree in women’s studies. She is a former director of business development for WorkingWoman.com and began her career as a program coordinator for the American Woman’s Economic Development Corporation.
