Laetitia Vitaud

Laetitia Vitaud returns for her third appearance on Wisepreneurs. Half French, half German, and now back in Paris after years in London and Munich, she writes the Laetitia@Work newsletter on Substack and is one of the clearest voices on the future of work from a European perspective. Laetitia frames the current moment as an age of individuation and networks, where the most important asset for starting a business is not capital but relationships — specifically, the 150 or so people in your Dunbar circle whom you know well enough to stop for a drink if you bumped into them on the street. For professionals over 60 considering independent work, she argues that the network built over decades of career and community life is the startup capital, and that maintaining it deliberately — through birthday messages, direct messages, and genuine check-ins — is the most leveraged form of business development. The conversation covers the multi-stage life (from Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott's The 1…

Laetitia Vitaud is a French writer and expert on the future of work from a feminist perspective. Drawing from her latest book, she explains why our obsession with productivity creates diminishing returns and why the care economy belongs at the centre of any serious conversation about the future of work. She argues that entrepreneurship among older professional women is quietly reshaping work in ways the statistics do not yet capture, and that humane approaches to work create better outcomes than acceleration and optimisation. The conversation challenges the assumption that more output is always better — and makes the case that experienced professionals are uniquely positioned to model a different way of working. Wisepreneurs explores how experienced independent professionals position accumulated expertise and build sustainable practice.

Laetitia Vitaud, French writer, speaker and Future of Work commentator, brings a feminist perspective to professional reinvention and the changing nature of careers. She explores the motherhood penalty across countries, COVID's "shecession" and its unequal impact on women, and why women over 50 often turn to self-employment. Her advice centres on financial literacy, diverse networks, identity transitions and developing your own career narrative.