Books
Recommended Reads
You're In Charge, Now What?
Great for setting you up for success in your first 100 days in a new job. (by Thomas J. Neff & James M. Citrin)
The Confidence Code
talks about how confidence, not perfection, is what really drives success – and how you can build more of it every day. (by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman)
Our Iceberg Is Melting
This book uses a simple fable about penguins to show how anyone can handle change with less fear and more teamwork. (by John P. Kotter)
The Chimp Paradox
Explains how your ‘inner chimp’ (or your negative self-talk) can hijack your thinking—and gives you practical ways to manage it to have more control over your thoughts. (by Dr Steve Peters)
How To Get A Job You Love
Packed full of exercises to help you figure out what role really fits you. (by John Lees)
Working Identity
Shows how career change can really happen—through experimenting, learning, and reshaping your path step by step. (by Herminia Ibarra)
Blog
Managing Your Career
Leaving the World of Sales – A client case study
A comment from my wife at the start of the year (2025) saying that in the seven years she had known me I was rarely excited or enthused by my job and did I want to continue like this until retirement?So I began to think and realised that with newly achieved financial...
My career transition through coaching – a client’s case study
After several years of working flat out, I found myself feeling burnt out. Following a long term, temporary contract with the NHS which ended after COVID despite my successful delivery of the role's expectations, I transitioned directly into a demanding consultancy...
Looking to leave sales? Consider a portfolio career
If you're looking to leave sales, have you considered a Portfolio Career? Instead of one full-time role, a portfolio career blends consulting, coaching, fractional leadership, project work, and passion-driven pursuits.Why does this work so well for former sales...
Indecision is the enemy of career choices
My client had finally been offered a way out—an escape from the toxic job that had drained her for years. On paper, the new role made sense: better hours, healthier culture, even a decent salary bump. But something about it didn’t sit right. It wasn’t the right fit,...
Why Coaching?
Professional business coaching has started to see a real boom over the past 10 years as people start to look for more fulfilment both within their roles and by changing roles. Whilst we intrinsically know that people feel valued, enabled and empowered through...
7 Alternative Careers for Sales People
Are You Asking Yourself: “How Do I Leave Sales?” You're not alone. Every week, I speak with high-performing sales professionals who are burned out, bored by the monthly or quarterly cadence of their job and tired of chasing numbers. You may be ready for a career...
podcast
The Career Change Podcast
The world of work is a maze with twists, turns and dead ends often with no particular end in sight. You can’t always see round the corner and there are so many potential turns that it can be hard to decide.
A-Maze-ing Careers aims to give people who are part-way through their career the confidence that change at any stage is possible, and those starting out that the decisions they make now do not have to be the only path that their career takes them.