Executive Coaching for Careers in Transition
Times of career transition represent a unique moment in one's career and transitions are becoming increasingly common for professionals in high intensity roles. Transitions occur as a result of:
Desire for new challenge and opportunity
Mergers/re-organizations
Unexpected firings or resignation because of a toxic work environment
Ageism is increasingly a factor in rapidly changing workplaces
If you are a professional experiencing a career transition, I am here to support you to regain your footing and to develop a plan for the future.
How Executive Coaching during Transition can Help
Career transitions are inherently destabilizing and can result in heightened anxiety.
My approach utilizes a clinically informed perspective and draws on my experience as an executive leader serving across many cultures. Together we will reflect on your past and look to the future as you envision your own career trajectory.
I will guide you through a systematic analysis of the intersection of several key areas: values, thinking processes, emotions, behaviors, and relationships. This will become an assessment tool you can continue to utilize as a self check throughout your leadership journey.
We will focus on both strengths as well as areas of growth as a leader. You will find me to be both empathetic and practical.
Why are career transitions so hard?
As humans we are inherently creatures of habit who seek predictability and the familiar. High performance professionals may thrive on the thrill of new challenges and excitement but they rely on a foundation of predictable and familiar.
Just think about your morning routine, how you make your coffee or tea, the way you start your day, or how and when you go to the gym or yoga or pilates. Transition and change inevitably means loss of the familiar.
When there is a significant change in your career, regardless of whether it is a transition you wanted, or whether it was imposed on you externally, it represents loss. Loss of the familiar colleagues, the title, the role, the intensity of the demands. Perhaps it requires a geographic move, significant financial changes. All of this equals loss.
In the face of career change many individuals experience a broad range of emotions, moving from a sense of shock, sadness, rage, numbness, anxiety, fear, sometimes feeling numb. You find yourself replaying scenarios over and over and over. Wondering about the how and the why and the what if's.
The entire process may feel strangely reminiscent of when a loved one passed away, that sense of grief. What you are experiencing is professional grief.
We live in a grief illiterate society. This makes it hard to be able to name your experience and work through it. If you had an unexpected abrupt departure from a role that you loved, it is inevitable that you will have a season of professional grief. And for those who have just embarked on an exciting new career path or position, you too are experiencing loss, and for many this means a period of professional grief.
How does Clinically Informed Executive Coaching Help?
Being a leader and serving in the C-suite is inherently lonely. In the safety and privacy of the coaching relationship you can let down your guard and honestly examine what is working and what isn't.
When you are in a career transition and struggling with professional grief, having a coach who can help you navigate not only the career demands, but also the emotional and relational residue is vital.
Learning how to continuously monitor your successes and vulnerabilities as a leader is key.
Executive coaching through transition supports you in:
Understanding where you have been
Creating a vision for the future
Examining barriers (both internal and external) that hold you back
Taking steps forward
Outcomes:
As a result of Clinically Informed Executive Coaching you will know yourself better as a leader and have the tools to do continuous self assessment of your strengths and vulnerabilities and the confidence to chart your path forward.
Ideal for: Executives and professionals who are experiencing a career transition, whether you have been promoted, pushed out/fired, or wanting a new opportunity.
What to Expect:
Initial complimentary consultation to answer any questions you may have
Services provided online in the comfort of your home or office on a secure HIPAA compliant server.
Coaching packages designed to meet your unique needs
Coaching is available to you anywhere across the globe where you have access to the Internet.