The Placeholder

The Place to Go to Create Your Noble Work

Nobody needs to be told how miserable working in a career that drains us is. However, despite so much effort that goes into the career change, we often discover ourselves in the same spot of depletion again, physically burned out, mentally disengaged, and emotionally unsatisfied. What are we doing wrong? What can we do to free ourselves from this perpetual sense of emptiness and live a more fulfilling work life?

Miroo Kim, the leadership and workplace culture coach, invites us to explore The Placeholder: The Place to Go to Create Your Own Noble Work. Rejecting the futile obsession with dedicating our life to a single career by “following our passion,” The Placeholder proposes three perspectives to try out for this highly experimental period in our career in order to create meaningful work. In the Placeholder, we observe and discover what truly matters to us like an anthropologist, we become open to ideating boundless possibilities like a creative designer, and we come to experiment ideas like a mad scientist. Through these actions in the Placeholder, we craft, develop, shape, define, and create our Noble Work, the career that is deeply meaningful to us.

The Placeholder is not only a thought exercise but a sandbox we get to play in with practical tools. As we get our hands dirty, we will not only create a meaningful career we envision but cultivate the ultimate capacity to reinvent ourselves without difficulty toward the good life of congruence and fulfillment.

About the Author

Miroo Kim (she/her) is the founder and CEO of People+Culture. She is dedicated to fostering systemic well-being in startups and tech companies. In her twenty years of career at tech companies such as Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, she discovered the importance of the human mind in making wonderful technology products and services. This led her to feel deeply interested in how to take care of human minds at workplaces.  

Miroo helped more than three thousand professionals and over one hundred teams to achieve their goals with emotional intelligence and psychological safety, which got her nickname, a “product manager for people and culture.” Miroo coaches, consults, and facilitates workshops and training to help individuals and teams to work more effectively with balance and resilience so they thrive together. She lives in San Francisco, California. Connect with Miroo via LinkedIn, Substack or Medium.