After a few years in my corporate career, I felt as though my soul was being starved. I would heave myself out of bed and drag myself round the house thinking about which of the political minefields I would be navigating that day and what deadlines I’d be racing to meet. There was no meaning at […]
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‘Wow!’ my client said. ‘That’s amazing!’ Little did my client know that his light bulb moment two years ago would lead to a midlife career change that would positively impact his life, and that of his family and help facilitate a dream come true. Just like my client, you may be a mid-life professional who has spent months or even […]
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I was recently inspired to ask the above question after reading an article entitled The Best Definition of Success, by Jeff Haden – which described how one way to define success was to be able to answer ‘yes’ to the question ‘Am I happy?’. The question of success and its relation to personal happiness is nearly always discussed […]
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In October 2012 at the age of 47 my client was made redundant after more than 20 years working as a senior manager for a global telecoms company in the USA. Although she’d not been enjoying her job for some time, it was a shock when the announcement came. The Challenge Janet (not her real name) accessed my […]
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At 55 years old, my client has just celebrated six months in a wonderful new career. He had previously held a long-standing management position within a multi-national corporate where he’d worked for 30 years. Now he holds a senior position in a Social Enterprise. A few months ago, he’d been talking to a friend about his recent career change. His friend had become disillusioned after […]
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