Find your next fulfilling career
Two reasons to work with a career change coach
You're stuck
You're slumped at your desk, being bored and frustrated. You don't want to do draining 'this', but what's the alternative? You're toying with scary thoughts about wiping the career slate clean, but is that even possible? Some days your head's a hot mess of intriguing career possibilities. Other days, you haven't a clue.
You're driven
You're busting to make an impact on issues that put a fire in your belly. You care deeply about protecting the environment, promoting social justice, or building stronger communities. You're keen to get cracking, but you've few clues about where to start.
Whatever's triggered your career change, I'll help you find purposeful, absorbing work.
How career change coaching works
The coaching sessions
We'll meet weekly for an hour.
Currently, all my coaching sessions are via Zoom.
We will adapt the pace of your coaching to match your progress.
We will do 8 weekly sessions and move to fortnightly, shorter check in sessions once you are exploring career ideas out there in the world.
Expect to spend between 2 and 3 hours a week between sessions completing exercises and working on your missions.
Sessions cost AUD$195 per hour (including GST), payable on the day.
Fresh thinking exercises, real-world missions
The reflective exercises will help you:
Get clear on what's motivating and purposeful for you at work and in life
Identify key strengths and skills and how you like to apply them
The real-world missions give you:
Opportunities to meet new people and step into new environments
Access to new experiences leading to new insights about what's possible for you
Insight into the day to day reality of intriguing careers that you've uncovered during your coaching sessions.
“Jo helped me so much in working through the next steps in my career. She listened, challenged, and took me through lots of exercises and scenarios, which I find myself going back to time and time again as a reference for the type of career and life I want to have and for when I need to make decisions about new roles and jobs to potentially take on. Her approach is very holistic and caring, and she has a skill for building up your confidence and ultimately being your cheerleader!”
Change careers in 4 stages
Choose a robustly researched and globally tested program renowned for helping curious, motivated career changers find satisfying work.
Stage 1. Discovering
Stage one helps you get clear. It allows you to:
• Articulate what's going to be important in your future career
• Get clear on your skills, strengths, and inner motivations, and purpose for your work
• Broaden your understanding of what other opportunities are available to you through meeting new people, stepping into new environments, and having new experiences.
• Check and challenge ways of thinking and behaving that hold your back
You'll move on to stage two with a clear, confident sense of what you want and what you do well.
Stage 2. Focusing
Stage two's exercises and 'out and about' activities refine your focus and direction.
Now you'll distil what you discovered in stage one into career themes.
You'll go into stage three-stage ready to test out 3-5 career themes that energise you and give you purpose and direction.
Now is an excellent time to take note of activities where you find your flow.
Stage 3. Testing and validating
Test the viability of new career options from the safety of your day job.
In this stage, you will:
• Generate new career change ideas no matter how clueless or confused you felt at the outset
• Explore career possibilities you've side-lined for years
• Reality check your top career ideas by getting your hands dirty. You'll try them out and see how they work, day to day
• Gain confidence and experience in your chosen field(s)
• Learn to create new work opportunities even where there's no advertised role
At the end of stage three, you'll know which top career change pick gives you the most joy, best fits your skills and talents, and promises to pay the bills.
Now's the time to get up from your desk and 'give it a red hot go.'
Stage 4. Mapping and shifting
Now you know 'what' you want to do next, so this last stage is about 'how' to make the career change.
Maybe you'll decide on a 'slow fade' from your old career into your new one. Perhaps you'll take a giant leap.
In this stage, you'll map out your career change steps to mitigate the risks of making the shift.
Best of all, because you've invested time and effort in coaching and in exploring new careers, you'll feel confident and excited about your future.
There are loads of astute ways to change careers, here's one brilliant example.
How do I start?
Book a free 20 minute phone call to find out if we're a good fit.
You'll tell me why you want to change careers and why now is the time.
I'll tell you how I can help you make a change and what to expect if you work with me.
Career Change Coaching FAQ
+ Where do you coach?
I live in Sydney. My clients are from everywhere. All my coaching sessions for local and global career changers are via Zoom.
+ Do I have to do anything between sessions?
Yes! At the end of each session, we will chat about what's next, and I will email you exercises and missions to do that week. For example, you might:
- Review and expand on the exercises we discussed in that week's session
- Complete fresh thinking exercises to help you gain clarity on what will be important in your career going forwards
- Speak to people in intriguing career fields (don't let this scare you, we build up to it gently)
- Put something we discussed into practice
+ What types of career changes do people make as a result of your coaching?
My clients transition into many and varied careers, including:
- Completely different jobs they've always thought about but thought they'd never have
- New roles in the same or other organisations in their current field
- Freelancing or launching their own businesses
- Portfolio careers combining two or more things they love to do
- Surprisingly wonderful jobs they never imagined doing or never knew existed
If you'd like specific examples, book a chat.
One of the loveliest perks of career coaching is seeing my clients find the energy and confidence to revitalise life outside of work. Clients often come to sessions buzzing about reconnecting with favourite people or returning to neglected hobbies or starting new projects.
