Rethinking Procrastination: How High Achievers Get Unstuck

Everyone procrastinates. Yet, when you’re accustomed to accomplishing your goals, feeling stuck in your career or personal life can feel even more frustrating. Beating yourself up or avoiding the situation can make things worse. Moreover, conventional advice doesn’t always help the smart and caring. Depending on how you’re stuck, you need different tactics.
By Alumni Career Team

Having worked with hundreds of high achievers, research scientist-turned-life coach Dr. Stacy Kim shares common pitfalls that talented individuals need to avoid and how to rethink roadblocks. Walk away with practical strategies and easy tweaks to help you move forward in finding more rewarding and meaningful work and deepening important relationships.

About the Speaker

Stacy S. Kim, PhD, is a social scientist, life coach, and productivity nerd obsessed with the intersection of career and family. She has written for Real Simple, WIRED, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She previously worked for the Families and Work Institute and Columbia University. She speaks English, Korean, and three statistical programming languages.

She couldn’t be prouder to be mom to a current Wolverine despite being a graduate of another Big Ten school.

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