The most successful leaders aren’t climbing one ladder — they’re building a portfolio. In this masterclass, Christina Wallace shares the core ideas from The Portfolio Life and how high-achieving women can intentionally design careers that blend ambition, creativity, and personal fulfillment. Learn how to move beyond linear career paths, invest in multiple dimensions of your life, and redefine success on your own terms.
A self-described “human Venn diagram” Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School where she teaches entrepreneurship and marketing in the MBA program, Executive Education, and HBS Online. Concurrently, Christina is a 4x TONY-nominated Broadway producer through Nothing Ventured Productions and an active angel investor through Phi Factor Capital. Her latest book, The Portfolio Life, was published by Hachette in 2023.
Previously, Christina was vice president of growth at Bionic, an innovation consulting firm (acquired by Accenture in 2021) that built startups inside large enterprises. Prior to joining Bionic, Christina founded BridgeUp: STEM, an edtech startup inside the American Museum of Natural History, was the founding director of Startup Institute New York, and the co-founder and CEO of venture-backed fashion company Quincy Apparel. She was also, very briefly, a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and began her career at the Metropolitan Opera.