Lia DiBello Professional Reinvention: Rethinking Your Work After Thirty Years

Dr Lia DiBello Ph.D, a cognitive scientist, studies how people become intuitive experts and what professional reinvention looks like after thirty years. Across more than fifty companies, medicine and the military, she found that the people who stay successful hold one picture in their heads of how a business works: money, operations, and supply and demand, all in balance, pivoting to whichever part the moment demands.  She calls it the triad. Her simulations run three years of business in a single day, and one biotech team came back the next morning and saw they had to centralise filing and packaging.  She's done this with 9,000 people, and it's the same every time.  Her point: people don't learn anything new. They reshuffle what they already have. Your own picture of how a business works can still run on autopilot, and when it narrows, you become a one-trick pony with all your skill in one corner of the triad. Thirty years in, you have more to reshuffle, and you're better on the second try. Wisepreneurs explores how experienced independent professionals position accumulated expertise and build sustainable practice. Mentions and references: Vygotsky — the psychologist who saw that understanding comes from using knowledge Dr David Lehman — built billion-dollar businesses for GE and Caterpillar Cedric Chin — Commoncog; where Nigel first heard Lia Future View — ACSI Labs' strategic rehearsal platform Truth Layer — turns confident AI answers into testable claims Connect with Lia acsilabs.org — [email protected] LinkedIn Lia DiBello Support the show Connect with Nigel Rawlins Website: https://wisepreneurs.com.au/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelrawlins/ Free assessments for independent professionals: https://wisepreneurs.com.au/field-guides/ The Wisepreneur newsletter, practical thinking for experienced independent professionals, every Tuesday: https://wisepreneurs.com.au/newsletter Support the show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2311675/supporters/new