The Career Game Loop | Jessica Lindl | TEDxSFUHS Youth

Careers no longer follow a single ladder, according to this TEDxSFUHS Youth talk by Jessica Lindl. She argues that work now resembles a game in which people learn, level up and loop back to new skills, especially as many jobs did not exist ten years ago. Lindl is a senior executive with more than 20 years of experience in technology-enabled education and platform businesses. She is the author of The Career Game Loop and an Aspen Institute–Pahara Fellow focused on learning and economic opportunity. The talk was independently organized by a local community under the TEDx format.

• Careers are described as games rather than ladders
• The cycle of learning, leveling up and looping
• Training for jobs that did not exist ten years ago
• Speaker background in education and platform businesses

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” used to have one answer. Jessica has spent her career helping millions of people train for jobs that didn’t exist ten years ago, and she argues that careers no longer work like ladders. They work like games: you learn, level up, and loop. Jessica Lindl is a senior executive and general manager with more than 20 years of experience building and scaling technology-enabled education and platform businesses. She currently serves as SVP and Interim Chief Marketing Officer at Unity Technologies, where she has led enterprise repositioning and driven a return to revenue and EBITDA growth. Previously, she founded and led Unity’s Education business and served as CEO of GlassLab and COO of LRNG. Jessica is the USA Today bestselling author of The Career Game Loop and an Aspen Institute–Pahara Fellow focused on expanding access to economic opportunity through learning. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx