We worked with this client through an associate who recommended us because we specialise in career change.

What was the situation before we worked with them?

• Female barrister, 26, feeling that after years of training, the legal profession just isn’t them
• Originally chose law because of family ‘status’ pressure
• Lacking confidence about making a decision – choices feel like ‘fog’
• Wanting to find the right new career, but fearful of making the wrong choice

What did we do with them?

• Face to face coaching – 8 hours over 3 months
• Elicited job likes and dislikes, values, skills, strengths, needs, fears, motivations
• Introduced client to useful contacts and resources to explore new career options
• Shared tools to help reflect, focus, self-coach etc
• Interview role play

What happened as a result of our work?

• Client took 3 months off to think and reflect after 8 years of studying without a break
• Successfully secured new job meeting all needs with long term plan to retrain as a company secretary, a role that builds on legal heritage
• Toolbox of self-management tools to be resourceful and make own decisions
• Greater patience, feeling freer and with more inner peace, rather than always thinking about the future

Testimonial:

I was unhappy with my choice of career and felt enormous pressure from my family to pursue something that just didn’t feel right.  Rachel provided an ideal non-judgmental space and time for me to really think about my needs and what is really important to me.  She also provided incredibly useful tools to focus on the various issues at hand, which helped me to figure things out for myself in a time that would have been unimaginably longer if I hadn’t had them!

And now …..

Still working with a very supportive employer who realise what a gem of a person they have got and studying to become a company secretary to achieve their goal.

Other examples

We helped Duncan Goose work out what he felt passionately about and to leave advertising and set up a business to help the world. Duncan founded www.onedifference.org and went on to win an ITV 2007 People of Briton Award  

One water was the official mineral water at Bob Geldof's Live8.

We helped Hannah Smith to tranform herself from a commercial lawyer in a magic circle law fiim to trainee Company Secretary working in the NHS, playing to her strengths of influencing diverse stakeholders and being very organised.    

We are ourselves an example of career change so have first hand experience of the issues. Rachel Brushfield who runs Energise started her career in marketing, then moved to the consultancy/agency side working in design, then advertising and then innovation before setting up  Energise doing freelance and contract work. We then trained as a coach over 2 years and switched the focus of our offer over time from marketing services and brands to helping people think through who they are, what they want and how to get it, doing  a mixture of life, career and executive coaching.

Then in 2008 we took 6 months out to refocus our business and specialise in career strategy and developed a new area - talent management, using our skills and experience from our marketing and agency days in a new context - human capital.

Probably our most contrasting career change example is Jon Green who is a pastor for young people at Methodist Hall, Westminster, London. We helped Jon work smarter so he could free up time to pursue his passion for song writing and creating songs to motivate and inspire people around the world. Currently Jon combines both passions with a portfolio career, God and Music, and with a young son, he is reaping the benefits of the systems, processes and clear priorities we identified.   Jon won a national UK song competition in 2009 coming first out of 250 entries. Well done Jon! Now there's talent liberation in action!


Why not call us for a chat about the career change you'd like to make? Sometimes our clients have thought about career change for over 10 years before they get in touch. Life's too short to be unhappy at work. Fear and overhwhelm about change is normal and natural and we can support you through it.

Pick up the phone and take the first step now. 0845 22 55 010  or click on 'Services’ to see how we would liberate your talent?