In 2015 I walked away from a two-decade-long career in corporate head-hunting in UK and Australia. I’m grateful for those 20 years. They taught me a great deal about the tragic impact work unhappiness has on professionals.
A mid-life MSc Psychology and a 7-year-long research project (so far!) has taught me a great deal about work happiness.
Experiments gave my midlife career (and my wider midlife) a very necessary kiss of life.
They destroyed my fear of failure, they returned pizzazz and giggles back to my midlife, they stop me from staying in my very comfy-yet-dangerously-familiar life. And critically, my experiments breathed much-needed oxygen into my search for work that I could love… maybe forever.
One of these experiments involved challenging myself to find and interview I00 midlife career changers who describe themselves as “happier” after giving themselves a career makeover and redesigning work that fit them better.
This experiment taught me the underlying secrets behind career change... at our age! I even wrote a book about them—with lots of help from my publisher, mPowr Publishing. And it’s been featured in publications like BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald.
And over the last few years, mPowr and I have designed and created online courses that that are transforming the careers of midlife professionals and bringing back excitement into Monday mornings all over the world.
These career make-over programmes include the short diagnostic tool: Derailed, Get your career back on track and the deeply transformative six-week career redesign course called The Fierce Emporium.
