Pavilion secures Berwick's career future-proofing guide

Pavilion has signed The Future-Proof Career: strategies to thrive at every stage by Isabel Berwick, business forecaster and host of the Financial Times podcast “Working It”.

Commissioning editor Lucy Smith acquired world all-language rights from Anna Pallai at AMP Literary Agency. It will be published on 11th April 2024 in hardback, e-book and audio format. 

"The Future-Proof Career is an accessible guide to the new world of work that speaks to everyone: staff and managers, employees and the self-employed, or to the many individuals who are navigating work post pandemic," Pavilion said.

"Packed with expert, forward-thinking analysis of workplace trends, the book will look at the big ideas shaping the way we think about career progression today and highlight the outdated habits of working that need to stop. Isabel will put you ahead of the curve with insights into the four-day week, bridging generational gaps, ensuring your company walks its diversity talk, quiet quitting, methods for actually achieving workplace equality and even micro-dosing creativity.

"The Future-Proof Career promises to help you understand modern workplaces so you can lead a happier, more productive professional and personal life."

Berwick said: “I’m delighted to share everything I’ve learned from hosting the ’Working It’ podcast and editing the FT’s workplace and management coverage.  

“I am endlessly curious about the many ways in which workplaces are an imperfect fit for human beings – and how we can make them better. It’s a subject that’s fascinated me since a long-ago experience of bullying by a bad manager – I resolved then to work out how to thrive at work, and that’s been my mission ever since. I was thrilled to be asked by Lucy to write a book all about it.” 

Ellen Simmons, the Pavilion editor overseeing Lucy Smith’s maternity leave, said: “Isabel brings expert opinion to personal experience in this ground-breaking career manual that cleverly asks both ‘what are you working for?’ and answers it with solutions for honing your craft without compromising your personal time nor professional advancement.  

“There’s no time like now to get ahead of uncertainty and make the way you work, work for you.”