# Event Details - **Event Name**: Detour Stories: Five Career Pivots, Five Stories - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 16 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 16 Sep, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Five people who made the move you're considering, answering the questions you'd actually ask.About this EventEvery career pivot on LinkedIn is an after photo. New title, new company, congratulations in the comments. What's missing is the part you need: what it cost, how long it took, and how close they came to turning back.That's this session. Five people who changed direction answer those questions. Hearing one pivot story is inspiring. All of us love a good reinvention. Hearing five in a single evening is useful. Different experiences, different viewpoints, and enough range that some of it will map to where you actually are.Part 1 was the analysis or the what of detour stories: six kinds of pivots, the gut check, eleven tools. Free to read, linked below.Meet the Moderator & Panelists for Session 2TehShan LeeModerator · Co-Founder, JobNet 2.0Co-founded JobNet 2.0 and co-leads it as a volunteer. She also serves pro bono as an employment counselor at the City of San Mateo's Job Seeker Center, and spent more than a decade on the board of a regional HR association, most of it as chair.Teresa AbrahamsohnHR Consultant and CoachStarted out as an electrical engineer designing physical security systems. After an MBA she found her way into HR and stayed. She has worked in both the private and public sector and now consults and coaches, bringing project management and talent development together with how organizations actually run.Ginny ConboyHR Generalist · Volunteer, California State ParksMore than forty years in HR: talent acquisition, employee relations, shared services, compliance, most recently at Applied Materials. Alongside all of it, more than twenty years volunteering with California State Parks.Teresa SolisHR Leader and Performance CoachHas built HR functions from nothing twice, most notably scaling Tercica from launch past three hundred employees. She's currently the entire HR function at ViaBot and coaches leaders through Landmark Worldwide's two-year program.Michelle Miller, PHRDirector of Human ResourcesTwo decades improving employee experience by building better workplace processes, across high tech, bio-device, education, and nonprofits. She currently works part time as an HR director at an educational organization.Triparna ChakrabortyHR Business PartnerA founding HR Business Partner at an AI infrastructure and connectivity company. An engineer who became an HR professional, she has worked across talent insights, learning and organizational development, recruiting, and business partnering in five countries. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cupertino/detour-stories-five-career-pivots-five-stories/100001998273412569 - **Event Categories**: volunteering - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: all_ages - door_time: 2026-09-17T00:30:00Z - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: OneDigital - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Cupertino - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: OneDigital - **lat**: 37.3225965 - **long**: -122.0085318 - **full address**: OneDigital, 19200 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Cupertino, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Detour Stories: Five Career Pivots, Five Stories - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/3f5925713aae89ec300075bbce1d08b407aad670d6e66748de563da070530671-rimg-w1200-h600-dc180808-gmir.jpg?v=1787250381 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Detour Stories: Five Career Pivots, Five Stories being held? - **A:** Detour Stories: Five Career Pivots, Five Stories takes place on Wed, 16 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 16 Sep, 2026 at 07:30 pm at OneDigital, 19200 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Cupertino, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Detour Stories: Five Career Pivots, Five Stories? - **A:** Detour Stories: Five Career Pivots, Five Stories is organized by Bay Area Human Resources Connections (baHRC). - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Detour Stories: Five Career Pivots, Five Stories is ideal for professionals, entrepreneurs, startup founders, and networking enthusiasts eager to grow their connections. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Cupertino, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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