Author
CHRISTINA WALLACE
The Portfolio Life
How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card
You are more than your job.
Whether you’re navigating a bumpy job market, making a post-kid pivot, responding to AI threats, or simply looking for a redesign that reflects updated priorities and ambitions, The Portfolio Life offers a practical way to build diversification and flexibility into your life and career in an ever-changing world.
Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer and serial entrepreneur Christina Wallace presents an anti-hustle, pro-rest alternative to the one-job, one-identity model of yesteryear. Rather than asking you to choose a single path―or turn every interest into a side hustle―she shows you how to build a resilient portfolio career and life that can evolve with you.
3 tenets of a Portfolio Life:
You are more than any one role or opportunity.
Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty.
When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance.
Drawing on research, case studies, and her experience across education, entrepreneurship, consulting, Broadway, and classical music, Wallace shows you how to carry forward what works, expand your options, make room for what matters, and rebalance as life changes. The result is not a busier life, but a more flexible, fulfilling, and future-ready one.
New to Big
How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth
This isn't about a one-off innovation moonshot. This is about building a ladder to the moon.
Most established companies face a key survival challenge: operational efficiency and outdated bureaucracy are at odds with new growth. Legacy companies are skilled at growing big businesses into even bigger ones, but they are less adept at discovering new opportunities and turning them into big businesses the way entrepreneurs and early-stage investors must.
In New to Big, David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their proprietary blueprint for installing a permanent growth capability inside any company — the Growth Operating System.