Patricia H. Tiggs

Patricia H. Tiggs spent fourteen years climbing a corporate ladder she did not realize was bolted to her spine. After a reorganization eliminated her division, she went through an eighteen-month “divorce” from her professional identity — and discovered that she had no idea who she was without a job title.

She now works as an organizational psychologist and executive coach specializing in identity transitions: layoffs, burnout, career pivots, retirement. She is not anti-ambition. She is anti-fusion. She thinks you should work hard if you want to — she just does not think your obituary should read like your LinkedIn profile. Her writing is smart, dry, and self-aware, drawing on both her years inside the corporate machine and her training in how people actually change.