When Your Job Stops Being Safe: Layoffs, Pivots, & Reinvention

When Your Job Stops Being Safe explores how individuals can navigate layoffs, career pivots, and professional reinvention using the Antifragility Reframe Methodology.

Drawing from conversations featured on the Reframe for Resilience and Antifragility Reframe podcasts, Dr. Frank L. Douglas presents a series of real-world case stories illustrating how people respond when career stability suddenly disappears. Each story examines the challenges of job loss, career transition, and personal reinvention through the lens of antifragility—the idea that individuals can grow stronger through disruption.

Following each case study, readers are guided through a practical "Do-It-Yourself" section using the Antifragility Reframe Compass, a framework designed to help individuals rethink problems, identify opportunities, and chart a new path forward.

Combining personal insight, leadership experience, and practical tools, this book offers readers a structured approach for transforming career uncertainty into growth, resilience, and lasting impact.