Value That Doesn’t Travel With You Is Not Yours In The First Place
Most professionals build careers around positions, not capital. Transferable Capital is the framework for building the kind of value no layoff, reorg, or economic shift can take from you.
The Career You Built May Not Be as Portable as You Think
Millions of professionals discover too late that their value was tied to a title, a company, or an industry that no longer needs them. They worked hard. They were loyal. And it still wasn’t enough — because they built for someone else’s organization, not for themselves.
The professionals who land well — in transition, through disruption, across decades — aren’t always the most credentialed. They’re the most portable.
Transferable Capital changes that.
The Framework
What Is Transferable Capital?
Transferable Capital is the sum of the assets you own — skills, relationships, reputation, resources, identity, and resilience — that move with you regardless of where you work, what you’re called, or what the economy does next.
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Human Capital
What you know and can do. Skills and expertise that produce value anywhere you apply them.
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Social Capital
Who knows you and trusts you. Relationships that open doors and vouch for your credibility.
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Economic Capital
What you own and what generates income — independent of any employer.
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Cultural Capital
Where you belong and how you move through rooms. Presence across communities and contexts.
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Psychological Capital
How you think, recover, and persist. The internal infrastructure that sustains everything else.
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Symbolic Capital
How you’re perceived and what your name signals. Reputation that opens doors before you knock.
You’re in transition, actively building, or protecting the value you’ve worked years to create. You want a framework that travels with you — not one that depends on a title or company that could change tomorrow.
You want to attract, develop, and retain people who stay because they’re growing. Transferable Capital gives your team a shared language for building portable value.
David Edgerton Jr. built Transferable Capital from the inside out — as an engineer, a corporate diversity leader, an executive recruiter, and an entrepreneur. After placing 30+ leaders in nonprofit and social-impact organizations, he saw the same pattern: the professionals who landed well weren’t the most credentialed. They were the most portable.
TC is the framework he wished existed earlier — and the one he’s spent his career building the evidence for.
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