How to Build a Portfolio Career

23/07/2025 35 min Episodio 8
How to Build a Portfolio Career

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What if your career wasn’t just one job, but a collection of roles that reflect your skills, interests, and values? Ben Legg, co-founder and CEO of The Portfolio Collective, shares how the portfolio career model is helping professionals design more flexible, purpose-driven lives, and why the future of work may look more like a mosaic than a ladder.Ben Legg helps business leaders and investors navigate the rapidly changing world and position themselves and their teams for success. Early career included relieving the siege of Sarajevo in 1995, McKinsey strategy consultant, turning around Coca-Cola India, COO of Google Europe and global tech CEO. In 2020 Ben cofounded The Portfolio Collective, to help professionals understand, launch, manage and grow successful portfolio careers - as a community.
EPISODE CREDITSProduced, edited and mixed by Ria TobaccowalaArtwork designed by Ben DamianoAdditional music licensed through Premium BeatsLINKSExplore more about the new frontiers of work at Rethinkingwork.ioFor more actionable insights that inspire subscribe to Rishad Tobaccowala's free weekly substack: The Future Does Not Fit In The Containers Of The Past. This show is also available on YouTube which includes visual supplements. Rishad's Book Rethinking Work is available in print and audio. Click here for where to buy.