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Leading leaders toward fulfilling and impactful lives.

Executive What’s-Next Strategist and creator of the New Career Operating System.

At a glance

Misha Rubin is an Executive What’s-Next Strategist, former Ernst & Young Partner, and creator of the New Career Operating System — a transformative framework that blends strategic clarity, reinvention psychology, and energetic alignment for a world where the old rules of work no longer apply.

Recognized for dissolving long-standing limitations, elevating identity, and helping people access clarity they didn’t know was possible, Misha has guided hundreds of ambitious professionals — from nurses and engineers to Wall Street Managing Directors and CEOs — through their most pivotal career and life crossroads.

His own reinvention — leaving a Big Four partnership at the height of success — fuels his mission to close the “missing curriculum” in leadership: teaching people how to consciously architect their careers, identities, and purpose in an era of seismic change.

Signature Podcast Topics

Misha’s signature topics explore the intersection of identity, reinvention, and the new era of work.

1. The Courage to Ask What’s Next
Why ambitious professionals avoid the question that would change everything — and how facing it becomes the gateway to reinvention, clarity, and identity expansion.

2. The 40-Day Life Reset
A structured psychological and energetic process for breaking patterns, resetting identity, and stepping into a more aligned, purposeful life.

3. Careers in the New Era of Work
Why the old career system is collapsing — and the mindset, identity, and strategic shifts leaders need to thrive in a world reshaped by AI and constant change.

4. The Quiet Crisis of Midlife Ambition
What happens when success stops feeling like success — and how leaders rediscover meaning, energy, and possibility without blowing up their lives.

5. The Missing Curriculum
Why leaders aren’t taught the one skill that shapes their entire career — and how the New Career Operating System closes this gap with clarity, confidence, and intention.

6. The Invisible Power Map
How leaders navigate influence, visibility, and organizational culture without losing themselves — and why inner alignment matters more than politics.

7. Identity Is the Real Career Strategy
Why upgrading your identity — not your résumé — is the key to promotions, reinvention, fulfillment, and the next version of your life and work.

Long Bio

Misha Rubin is an Executive What’s-Next Strategist, former Ernst & Young Partner, and the creator of the New Career Operating System — a transformative framework that blends strategic clarity, reinvention psychology, and energetic alignment to help leaders step into the next version of themselves.

For 15 years, Misha advised the world’s top financial institutions while climbing to Partner at EY. At the height of his success, he experienced a profound internal shift — a realization that although he had achieved everything he was “supposed” to, his work no longer matched who he was becoming. That reckoning led him to leave his partnership and build a methodology to teach what he was never taught: how to consciously architect a career aligned with identity, purpose, and meaning.

Since then, Misha has 100s of professionals — from nurses and engineers to Wall Street Managing Directors and CEOs — through pivotal reinventions, leadership elevations, and “what’s-next” decisions. His work is known for dissolving long-standing limitations, expanding identity, and helping people access clarity they didn’t know was possible.

Reinvention is not theoretical for Misha — it’s lived. He adopted 3 children in 2 years, founded Rise Ukraine (a nonprofit serving thousands of children affected by war), released an original music album, and built a global coaching and education company centered on transformation.

Through his New Career Operating System and What’s-Next methodology, Misha is redefining career strategy for a world where the old rules no longer apply — and where clarity, reinvention, and inner alignment are fast becoming essential leadership skills.

Episode Hooks

High-impact episode concepts producers and hosts can build around.

• The Question Ambitious People Are Terrified to Ask — and Why It Changes Everything
• The Collapse of the Old Career System — and What the New One Requires of Us
• The Reinvention Moment: What Happens When the Life You Built No Longer Matches Who You’re Becoming
• How to Reinvent Yourself Without Burning Down Your Life
• The Quiet Crisis of Midlife Ambition: Why Success Stops Feeling Like Success
• Identity Is the Real Career Strategy — Not Skills, Not Experience, Not Your Résumé
• The Invisible Power Map: Navigating Influence, Politics, and Belonging Without Losing Yourself
• The 40-Day Life Reset: Breaking Patterns, Rebuilding Identity, and Restarting Life with Intention
• The Missing Curriculum: Why Leaders Aren’t Taught the Skill That Shapes Their Entire Career

All episodes connect to the New Career Operating System and What's Next Framework — Misha’s methodologies for clarity, reinvention, identity evolution, and strategic decision-making.

Producers consistently value Misha’s ability to blend clear frameworks, lived reinvention, and deep psychological insight — making conversations both practical and transformative.

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Signature Turning-Point Story

For 15 years, Misha climbed to Partner at Ernst & Young, advising some of the world’s top financial institutions — until he reached a point where the life he had built no longer matched the person he was becoming. At the height of his success, he experienced a profound internal shift: the realization that achievement without alignment becomes its own kind of crisis. Leaving his partnership became the inflection point that reshaped his identity, purpose, and direction. His reinvention gave rise to the New Career Operating System and his mission to guide leaders into the next version of themselves with clarity, intention, and courage.

Suggested Interview Questions

High-level questions that open powerful conversations across identity, reinvention, leadership, and the new era of work.

Identity & Reinvention
   1.   What happens inside a person the moment they realize the life they built no longer matches who they’re becoming?
   2.   Why do high achievers avoid asking “What’s next?”—and what transforms when they finally do?
   3.   How can leaders reinvent themselves without burning down the lives they’ve already built?
   4.   What is the emotional and energetic cost of staying in a career or identity that no longer fits?

The New Era of Work
   5.   You say the old career system is collapsing. What are the signs—and what replaces it?
   6.   How is AI changing not just work, but the identities leaders must operate from?
   7.   Why do so few leaders know how to consciously design their careers—and what should they be learning instead?
   8.   What does it mean to be “future-ready” in a world defined by uncertainty and reinvention?

Ambition, Psychology & Fulfillment
   9.   What is the Quiet Crisis of Midlife Ambition—and why are so many successful people experiencing it?
   10.   What myths about success and ambition keep people stuck, even when everything looks “good” on paper?
   11.   How do clarity, meaning, and identity intersect when someone is choosing their next chapter?
   12.   What does fulfillment actually require from high achievers—and why does it feel so elusive?

Leadership, Influence & the Inner Game
   13.   What are the invisible rules inside organizations that determine who rises—and who doesn’t?
   14.   What is “energetic alignment,” and how does it reshape a leader’s presence, communication, and influence?
   15.   How does someone upgrade their leadership identity so that opportunities naturally align with them?
   16.   What shifts when leaders operate from their next-level identity instead of their past accomplishments?