It's time to read the shift, rework the work, and
It's time to read the shift, rework the work, and
become what comes next.
For the moment you realize corporate is changing and staying relevant means moving differently.
Pros at Meta, Nvidia, Netflix, Nike, and more subscribe to The Friday Briefing to stop reacting to the corporate shift and start becoming what comes next, written by Kristi Allen, former CCO Chief of Staff at Intel.
Hey! I’m Kristi Allen. I help corporate 9-5er’s become what comes next as AI rewrites work.
[ An open letter to the Becomers ]
You’re not behind.
I want to say that first because I know it’s the thing running in the background for you right now.
You’ve built a real career. You’ve done work that you’re proud of and you figured out more than most people around you ever will. And somehow, with everything AI is shifting, it can still feel like you’re starting over.
One thing I know for sure, you’re not.
What you’re doing is something harder — you’re paying attention. You’re noticing that the rules are being rewritten and deciding you want to understand them before they’re handed to you as a done deal.
✨ That’s not falling behind, that’s becoming.
That’s why you’re here.
Not to chase every AI headline or let the noise convince you that you missed the window. But to understand what’s actually happening around you, how leadership is really weighing things, and how to position yourself in ways that land… even as AI changes what work looks like entirely.
You deserve more than generic career advice.
You deserve the inside view.
And that’s why I created The Corporate Undoing, for us, for the ones actively becoming what comes next.
The Corporate Undoing is where Becomers learn to read the shift, rework how they work, and connect in a room of leaders practicing how to move with it.
What comes next favors those who can move with change while it's still taking shape.
Just thinking about the impact AI will have on your role is enough to make you switch tabs to book a vacation poolside
HONESTLY, ANYONE WOULD
BE SPIRALING.
Your notes app can’t hold all of your questions and deep down you know your manager can’t answer them anyway.Â
🤔 Let’s be real, what can I stop panicking about?
🤔 How do I know if I’m adapting fast enough?
🤔 Is there something important I’m just not seeing yet?
🤔 What if I automate myself right out of a job?
But the worst part? At work, most of the convo’s around AI are still surface level — no one is sharing how the leadership scoreboard is actually changing.
And your manager’s advice doesn’t really help, no matter how many conversations you have.
You’re left wondering if you’ll ever stop feeling behind, and truly realize that while this moment is asking more of you, it’s also making the next version of you harder to ignore.
If that sounded like your brain on a random Tuesday, you're picking up on something real.
The Becomers show up in every industry, every role, every level of corporate. They’re not all in the same stage of their career or on the same timeline. What they share isn’t a title… it’s the decision to stop reacting and start becoming.
If you made that decision, even just to yourself, you’re already closer to this than you think.
If you’ve been trying to find the words for what this moment is asking of you, start here.
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See beyond the AI conversation happening at your company.
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Notice where the work itself is starting to shift (thx, AI Agents).
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Move in a way that keeps you relevant, trusted, and hard to miss.
Two Ways Into The Corporate Undoing
Whether you’re still trying to make sense of all this in your own head or you already know you want to be in a room with other people thinking about it at the same level, there’s a next step for you here.
👑 Big Move #1:
I want the inside view, but I want to start in my own space first.
The Friday Briefing is where to start if you want one smart, grounded read each week that helps you make sense of what’s changing at work, what leadership is actually responding to, and what that means for how you move now.
#truth after years in corporate myself, I can whole heartedly say it’s always a good idea to have broader perspective.
And besides, you also get to read what folks at Nvidia, Netflix, and other top companies are reading. Win-win.
👑 Big Move #2:
I do better when I’m in the room where the convo is actually happening.
The Briefing Room is for leaders who don’t want to navigate the shift alone.Â
It’s the live community inside The Corporate Undoing, where the ideas get talked through in real time, the patterns get pressure tested, and the questions that have just been sitting in your notes app finally have somewhere to go.
This is where you get to be in the room with other leaders across companies, those who are practicing how to move while everything’s shifting, too.
But, wait. What’s my story?
I didn’t come into corporate with the crisp confidence of someone whose dad already knew what “circle back” meant
— but I was weirdly good at figuring out what mattered... and what made leadership pull me in.
I got unreasonably interested in the part of work most people are too busy surviving to study.
The part that explains —
💎 Why one idea gets traction.
💎 Why one leader’s phrasing changes the whole tone of the room.
💎 Why one person gets pulled into a convo and another gets pulled into the all-hands.
💎 Why the official explanation so often sounds more reasonable than what is actually happening.
I saw versions of that everywhere I worked, across brands like Dow, BBDO, and Ford Racing, and in my last role as Chief of Staff to the CCO at Intel.
Different companies gave me different vantage points, but they kept confirming the same thing: There’s always the explanation, the official version, and then there’s the scoreboard.
The version people hear, and the other version, the one that leadership actually makes decisions from.
Which means some people are about to get the tap. And some are about to get the update email. It’s not about being the smartest person or the most senior… it’s knowing how to read what’s shifting, positioning yourself, and becoming what work is actually calling for next.
And honestly, nobody has the full map for how AI lands on all of this.
What I do know is how to read the room while it’s being rewritten. I’ve done it my whole career. And I’m not about to stop now.
I’d rather do that out loud, with people who are paying attention the same way I am. That’s what we’re building here.
Come for the real talk on how work is changing + strategies that matter as AI reshapes it, plus the unfiltered BTS of becoming what comes next, wrangling drop-offs and diapers, and living for the next AI rabbit hole (or Love Story binge).
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