Alexandra Levit (born 1976) is an American writer, consultant, speaker, workplace expert and futurist. She has written ten business and workplace books, and is currently a nationally syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal. In 2019, she was named to the Thinkers50 Radar List. In 2021, she received a certification in strategic foresight from the University of Houston. Early life and education Levit was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She was the salutatorian of her class at Watkins Mill High School, where she was active in environmental causes and acted in several theatrical productions. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1998 with a degree in psychology. Career In her early career, Levit worked in New York as a public relations representative for a Long Island software company, where she felt a struggle to achieve visibility and recognition for her efforts at work. She went on to become a vice president at public relations firm Edelman, with a focus was on creating online campaigns in the early days of social media. In 2003, she decided to use her workplace experiences to write a guide for young professionals navigating the business world. The ensuing book, They Don't Teach Corporate in College, was published in 2004 and started Levit's transition into a career as a workplace consultant, speaker, columnist and author, which became her full-time profession after leaving Edelman in 2008. In 2004, Levit founded Inspiration at Work, a business and workplace consulting firm based in Chicago that advised universities, nonprofit associations and companies. From 2009 to 2010, she wrote a nationally syndicated career advice column for The Wall Street Journal. She wrote The Corporate Freshman column for the Huffington Post from 2008 to 2011, and has also written for Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider, Fast Company, Mashable, Business 2 Community CityLab, and The New York Times, including a 2013 report on global business competence she wrote while living in London, and a 2016 article about artificial intelligence in the workplace. She has written ten business and career books, which typically draw from surveys of professionals to offer guidance on such topics as getting a desirable job, changing careers, managing a multi-generational workforce, and work habits that will help achieve success. She writes frequently about the intersection of technology and the workplace, and consults with companies about preparing for the workplace of the future. Her advice has been featured in