Coaching for professionals who've outgrown a career they spent years building towards, and know another job isn't the answer.
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From the outside, nothing is obviously wrong. You're a high-achieving professional with the experience, title and salary to go on living a comfortable life. You've built a successful career, but underneath it all, you can't help but wonder, “Is this really it?”
Somewhere in the last year or two, you've started to feel the itch. You feel torn between what you've built and what you want to do next, but the pull toward something different isn't going to go away. You know what you're capable of but you're plagued by thoughts of not living up to your potential. You have big goals, but you find yourself hesitating, fearing what failure or success might bring. You know that something needs to change.
You're not going to walk away from a good salary on a hunch. You'd rather test your options from a position of stability and find out what you actually want before you make any big decisions.
You don't want to go back to a slightly better version of the role you just left. You think you might want to start something of your own. This is a window that won't come around again soon and you want to use it to make an intentional choice.
The company has been the answer to what you do and who you are for a long time. You've been building towards this for years, and now that it's close you've noticed the excitement isn't as clean as you expected and something in you is bracing.
The work follows a loose arc, in three parts. It isn't a curriculum and it doesn't run in a straight line. The second part in particular tends to surface whenever it wants to, often in the middle of something practical. But most people move through these three, and it helps to know roughly where you are.
We start with you. What you value, what you're good at, what you've been rewarded for that you'd rather stop doing. We go back through your career and look closely at the parts that worked and the parts that didn't, to find the pattern underneath. Assessments sit here too, as inputs rather than answers.
This is where the inherited material shows up: what you were taught about money, success, what you're allowed to want, what happens if you're not productive, what uncertainty means to you. Most of it is invisible until it's named. This is usually what has kept you deliberating rather than deciding, and it's where Internal Family Systems and transactional analysis come in.
We generate possibilities, then design small experiments to find out what's real: low cost, low risk, and structured so that each one produces information rather than another opinion. This is how a direction gets chosen without a leap, and it's a method you'll keep using long after we finish.
This coaching container starts at 6 months, with most clients staying between 6–12 months.
If that's more than you want to commit to before we've met properly, you can start with a single 90-minute session.
Complete a short form, then book a 30-minute conversation so we can meet properly. I'll want to know what's brought you here, what you've already tried and what you're hoping will be different. By the end, we'll both have a sense of whether this is the right work, with the right person, at the right time.
Before our first session, I'll send you a workbook. You'll be asked to describe what you want your life to look like, set a focussed direction for our work together and define what success would mean. This gives us a clear starting point and ensures our time together is anchored in what matters most to you.
12 x 60 min sessions, fortnightly, over Google Meet. I provide light scaffolding at the start and less of it as we go. I'll reflect, gently challenge and do some psycho-education where it's useful. Around the halfway point, we'll review what's moving and what isn't. In our final session we'll take stock of how far you've come and what you're carrying forward.
You'll have a private Notion space holding session notes, tasks and resources chosen to support the work between sessions. This is a place to return to your insights whenever you need them and it's yours to keep when we finish.
Between sessions, I'll check in through Voxer. When something surfaces between our sessions, you can reach out to me directly. You won't have to wait until the next session.
Two months after the final session, I'll check in with you over a 60 minute call to see what's progressed and what's slipped behind. Beyond that, some clients choose to continue once a month, paid per session with no ongoing commitment.
You'll leave no longer feeling stuck, because you will have started taking the first steps towards building work on your own terms, aligned with who you are and what's important to you.
You'll know what you actually value, as distinct from what you were taught to value, and you'll have a direction that follows from it. These become working principles that give you something to test decisions against, so effort stops going towards misaligned work.
You're doing things that move you forward, rather than thinking about it. You will have started a few small experiments to gather data to inform your decision-making. You're no longer looking for the right answer before you allow yourself to move.
A repeatable way of testing a direction in the real world, rather than in your head. Small experiments and real information to make informed decisions. You'll continue using it long after we finish.
The professional identity you built slowly and mostly without noticing stops being something you have to defend. What changes is how you see yourself, what you believe is available to you, and what you give yourself permission to want.
You'll begin trusting the part of you that has been asking for something different for a while now, without immediately rationalising it as a bad idea. This is what outlasts the coaching, and the reason the work isn't really about your career.
I know most (good) coaches will try and reflect back to the client about how the work done is the client's, not the coach's. While I believe this to be true, I also don't think I would be here without you. You mentioned in our last session how you were appreciative of my honesty. However, I believe this to be a two-way street. If you weren't able to create a safe space for me, I likely wouldn't have been able to open up so freely. Thank you for this…I genuinely don't feel I'd be here without your help and support. And the inner work you've done, and the external work you're doing is very clearly, work worth doing.
You've been thinking about this for a year, maybe two. Another six months of thinking will produce more of the same. You already know that, which is presumably why you're still reading.
The introductory conversation is 30 minutes. It's free and there are no commitments. If I don't think I'm the right person, I'll let you know.
I spent a decade in tech across Australia and Europe, collecting companies, titles and salaries. From the outside, everything looked fine, and I should have been content. Yet, I had this gnawing sensation that this wasn't how I wanted my life to continue.
I didn't leave straight away. I optimised for smaller companies, moved overseas, went fully remote, freelance and then a portfolio of things. Four years of reconfiguring before finally admitting that no version of that life was going to fit anymore. So I left and found out that leaving is the easy part.
Career transitions tend to involve several transitions arriving at the same time, at different depths, which is why this coaching container is 6 months long. Coaching is a relational practice, and in my experience, it usually takes about 4 sessions before both sides have eased into the relationship enough to share with candour and challenge.
If 6 months feels more than you want to commit to, you can start with a single 90-minute session.
No. Not knowing is the usual starting condition, and it's most of what people come here to resolve. Arriving certain is often the harder case, because the certainty tends to be protecting you from a question you'd rather not open. Either way, we start where you actually are.
Most of the work, in truth. Sessions are where things get named; the fortnight afterwards is where you test them — a conversation you'd been avoiding, an experiment, sitting with something uncomfortable rather than solving it immediately. The gap between sessions is deliberate for that reason. You'll have the hub and you can reach me directly if something comes up.
Early on, progress usually looks like clarity rather than action, you can describe the problem more accurately than you could a month ago. Many of my clients report feeling lighter and more optimistic about their future. After that, it shows up in action, when you begin testing different directions. We review this openly, roughly at the halfway point, because I'd rather know at month three that something isn't landing than find out at month six.
My calendar is open between Tuesday — Thursday. I offer online coaching through Google Meet. All times below are in WET. If the time slots below don't work for your timezone, I'm open to discussing a time that would suit both of us.
Tuesday: 09:00 – 12:30
Wednesday: 09:00 – 12:30, 14:00 – 18:00
Thursday: 14:00 – 18:00
No, but I can refer you to colleagues who specialise in this area.
This coaching is focussed on supporting employed professionals who want to start something of their own, or founders who are exiting a company and want to gain clarity on their next steps before committing.
Therapy tends to work backwards, into why you are the way you are. This works forwards: what now, and what are you going to do about it. There's overlap, some of what surfaces here is material a therapist would recognise, and I use approaches drawn from that world, but the orientation is different. If something comes up that belongs in therapy, I'll say so, and plenty of my clients do both.
For people who’ve outgrown their professional career and aren’t sure what comes next. I write about meaning, self-authorship and reinvention.
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