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Learn Like a Lobster
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  • Published: 5 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241719008
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $40.00

Learn Like a Lobster

Grow as you go, fuel your own progress, accelerate your career

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5 May 2026
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5 Mar 2026
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5 Feb 2026
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Reignite your career, get unstuck and find the time you didn’t know you had

Everyone knows that staying relevant and adaptable is essential to success in any role, but it can feel like we’re too caught up in the day-to-day demands of working life to pursue opportunities to learn and grow.

In Learn Like a Lobster, Sunday Times bestselling authors Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis show us why we all have more time than we think, and more power to make change. It’s never too late to boost your confidence and revitalise your career.
And a lobster will show you the way.

  • Lobsters never stop growing - and neither should you
  • Lobsters grow through hard moments - use your challenges to uncover new learning
  • Lobsters fuel their own growth - don't wait to be taught, create your own opportunities to learn

Whether you’re someone who is ambitious to grow or you’re not sure about where to start, Learn Like a Lobster offers energising practical tools and actions that you can start using right away, within the working week you already have.

Crack open your shell, and find one that fits who you want to become.
  • Published: 5 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241719008
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the authors

Helen Tupper

Helen Tupper has held leadership roles at Microsoft, Virgin and BP and is now CEO of Amazing If. Her love of learning has led her to study at Henley, Cranfield and Cass Business School. Helen is a trustee for the Working Families charity, a Fellow of The RSA and lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband and two children.
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Sarah Ellis

Sarah Ellis has led marketing and corporate responsibility teams for Barclays and Sainsbury's, before becoming Managing Director of a creative agency. She is now Chief Learning Officer at Amazing If. Sarah has studied at Warwick University, London and Harvard Business Schools, and is a qualified Mental Health first aider. Sarah is on the Mayor of London's workspace advisory board and lives in London with her partner and son.
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Praise for Learn Like a Lobster

This is the book for you, for your team, and for everyone who wants to stay alert and ahead of the curve in a rapidly changing world. I defy anyone to resist Helen and Sarah's verve, down to earth writing and practical frameworks to make 'learning like a lobster' part of your daily routine

Isabel Berwick, Working It Editor, Financial Times

The inspiring minds behind Squiggly Careers strike again with a new book that challenges us to rethink our relationship with learning for a lifelong career that is rich and purpose led. Packed with inspiring stories, expert-led insights and practical exercises, this book is not only the motivation you need to change how you think about learning but also the manual for anyone who wants to not just stay ahead but be at the forefront of the fast-paced and ever-changing world of work.

Lisa Smosarski, Editor-in-Chief, Stylist

Fresh, enlightened and endlessly useful, Learn Like a Lobster is the essential guide of how to boost your career by taking hold of your own personal development. We should expect no less from Britain's best workplace thinkers; they are equals to Adam Grant and Brené Brown

Bruce Daisley

Everything you'd expect from the duo behind squiggly careers - practical, genuinely useful and a book you'll keep coming back to

Dorie Clark, bestselling author of The Long Game