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Why 20 Years in Corporate America Pushed Me to Pivot

16 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Mark Osborne, MBA, CEPA®. This content was uploaded by Mark Osborne, MBA, CEPA®. This is a YouTube video titled "Why 20 Years in Corporate America Pushed Me to Pivot" (created 2026-02-16). The excerpt is a first-person monologue in which the speaker reflects on spending 20 years in corporate America, climbing the management ladder, encountering increasing office politics and people issues, and then receiving a recruiter call about a private equity role that prompted a career pivot.

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So I was 20 years in corporate America. All right. 20 years in corporate America and trying to climb the ladder just like everyone else, you know, manager, director, senior, and all that kind of stuff. Did that for a while and it was fine. Actually, it was fine. I was able to move up. I managed really large teams, had huge impacts. It was great. It was fine. But over time, what you started realizing is that as you move up and deeper into organizations, you know, the politics go up, all, you know, the, the antics go up. And there's a lot that happens that people that I'm, I'm probably listening right now are nodding their heads like, yeah, there's, there's people issues, there's agendas, there's all sorts of stuff. Right? Right. And that's fine too at the end of the day. But I was willing to navigate that shit. I was willing to go around it and say, all right, you know, I can deal with this stuff until I got a phone call one day from a recruiter. And this recruiter said, hey, would you like to work for our private equity firm? They love my background.