Afterwork
How technology disrupts not only jobs but also identity, purpose and life itself.
By Iwana Johannsen
Rick Foerster, Author of The Way of Work
“Afterwork is a hidden gem. Iwana has the ability to break down complex ideas and offer practical solutions grounded in real-world experience."
What I offer
With 6+ years in tech start-ups, I've built departments from scratch, led teams, and developed expertise in strategy, customer success, project management, and marketing. Now, I've build a portfolio career operating at the intersection of the future of work, tech and navigating change - combining systems thinking with writing, mentoring, and fractional or project work.
Portfolio Career Mentoring
I support people in transitioning from jobs into portfolio careers. Using my own framework and lived experience, I help navigate the practical and psychological shift to design an intentional way of working and living.
Fractional Work/ Projects/ Consulting
Depending on capacity, I offer fractional support to purpose-driven startups, combining strategic thinking with operational execution. I selectively take on aligned projects and consulting work.
Afterwork Newsletter
Afterwork helps you navigate the biggest shift of our time as AI disrupts work as we know it. As jobs unravel, it explores what comes next: from portfolio careers to deeper questions of identity, purpose, and life after jobs.
Let's work together
Are you working on anything in the future-of-work space, simply like my thinking, also operate in the portfolio career world or have another idea for how we could collaborate? Let me know!
Afterwork Newsletter: What you'll receive
Afterwork helps you navigate the biggest shift of our time as AI disrupts work as we know it. As jobs unravel, it explores what comes next: from portfolio careers to deeper questions of identity, purpose, and life after jobs.
Big Picture Thinking
Visionary thinking on the future of work and life.
We’re living through one of humanity’s biggest shifts in how we work and live. As AI disrupts jobs, we need to explore the deeper questions about what we define as work as well as about identity, purpose and how societies fund life after jobs (post labor economics).
New Work Models
Diving deeper into what's currently changing.
What comes next when full-time jobs are no longer the default? Explorations of portfolio careers, fractional work, and new models of organization and leadership.
Practical tools & Personal Stories
Helping you navigate the shift.
Frameworks, prompts, mental models, and small experiments to help you design your own way of working in uncertain times — grounded in honest reflections and personal stories from my own reinvention journey.
Portfolio Career Mentoring
I support people in transitioning from jobs into portfolio careers. Using my own framework & lived experience, I help navigate the practical and psychological shift to design an intentional way of working and living.
What it is
A portfolio career is an intentionally designed mix of work and income streams built around your passions and strengths that evolves with your life.
Who it is for
You might still be employed but curious, freshly quit, or somewhere in the early stages of building your portfolio career.
How it works
A multi-session 1:1 process to help you transition into a self-designed portfolio career. You'll get clarity, an action plan and hands-on support to execute it.
What others say
"I think these kind of transitions can be really tricky and having someone like you to support throughout it is invaluable."
Read on.
If you’re curious, start with a few of the articles below to see what Afterwork is about and how I think.
