INTRODUCTION

Having a Reach Out Strategy Plan has dramatically changed my career—without parallel, for the better. And with a minimal amount of work, Reaching Out can change your life too.

HOW I GOT HERE

In March 2016, I shared my story on Forbes.com as part of Denise Restauri’s “Mentoring Moments,” a column where interviewees share a special moment when something clicked in their professional lives and how it changed their outlook moving forward.

My column focused on a night about two years after I’d moved to New York City out of college. I was at a party in the East Village, talking to a man who was having a lot of success in his field, which I think was maybe finance or consulting. He wasn’t anyone I knew very well, and I never saw him again ...

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