Penelope Trunk, writes career advice for a new generation of workers. She explains why old advice - like pay your dues, climb the ladder, and don't have gaps in your resume - is outdated and irrelevant in today's workplace. She has a reputation for giving advice that is counter intuitive but effective, like take long lunches, ignore people who steal your ideas, and stop vying for a promotion. Trunk is known for test-driving her advice before spewing it. Her own career choices have been featured by TIME magazine and the London Guardian as examples of the new issues people face at work today. Both the New York Times and Business Week cited Trunk's writing as especially in tune with this new workplace. In her personal life, Trunk routinely (often awkwardly) demonstrates buzzwords before they buzz, like the quarter life crisis, portfolio career, and shared-care parenting. Trunk is the author of the book Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success (Warner Books, 2007). Trunk spent ten years as a marketing executive in the software industry and then she founded three companies of her own. She has endured an IPO, a merger and a bankruptcy. Prior to that she was a professional beach volleyball player. Trunk started writing business advice when Fortune magazine published an open call for a woman to write about her own life as an executive. Trunk auditioned with a piece about her brother's stupid Internet ideas, and a piece about her boss's sex appeal, and she won the job. Today, she is a columnist at Yahoo Finance and the Boston Globe, and her syndicated column runs in more than 200 publications worldwide. Trunk has spent roughly ten years each in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and New York City. Recently, taking her own advice about how to leverage scientific data to choose a job and a place to live, she landed in Madison, Wisconsin. The first word her baby learned in Wisconsin was cow.

Keynote Speaking

Penelope Trunk has spoken at events across the US and abroad, and have participated in events of all varieties: executive retreats, sales meetings, industry conferences, corporate training seminars, client appreciation dinners, and trade shows.

Liminal will work with you or your corporate event planner to insure that our speakers will captivate, motivate, engage, provoke and inspire any audience in order to create a memorable learning experience.

If desired, our Faculty will work with your team to customize a presentation tailored to your corporate culture, meeting themes, or leadership challenges.

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Private Workshops

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“The rules have changed. ‘Brazen,’ ‘counter-intuitive,’ and ‘radical’ are the best three descriptions of Penelope Trunk’s work.”

Guy Kawasaki, Author

The Art of the Start

“Thanks for suggesting to view the Y-gen video. As a father of 2 Y-gen sons and an internal consultant for HP's media & entertainment practice in Asia, I found the 10 points most useful to help me understand Y-gen motivations. My constituencies are predominantly Asian and embrace many of the traits discussed. As a "boomer", it's encouraging to learn that such thinking exists and appears to be right on target.”

Kevin Dauphinee, Director, Business Development APJ

Worldwide Media & Entertainment

“My colleagues and I would like to hear Ms. Trunk's engaging and thought-provoking talk. We might not all agree with her notions (and what fun would that be, anyway?), but it certainly can provide the basis for some interesting banter.”

Melanie Hogue , Director, Guest Services

Micato Safaris

Email: ptrunk@liminalgroup.com

Phone: 212-546-4625