What if your corporate exit came sooner than expected?

Janette’s Next Act: From Corporate Career to Portfolio Career

When Janette first came to me, she wasn’t running from her corporate role. She had outgrown it. She was beginning to think seriously about how to build a portfolio career and what she needed to put in place before leaving corporate.

Building the on-ramp before the exit

Together, we mapped out a practical pathway:

Clarify her leadership narrative and the value she brings
Strengthen her professional visibility
Activate her network and start consulting conversations
Build a professional identity beyond her corporate role

And Janette committed to the work. She refined her story, leant into her network and began creating opportunities well before she needed them.

Then the unexpected happened.

A redundancy offer brought her corporate exit forward considerably. There was certainly some good fortune in the timing, but because Janette had already done the groundwork, she was ready to take advantage of it.

Transitioning from corporate to consulting

Rather than finishing corporate life and wondering, What now?, Janette moved straight into consulting and already has a strong pipeline of work ahead.

She is continuing to reconnect with her network strategically, build her LinkedIn presence and create space for the flexibility and variety she wanted from this next stage of her career.

Most importantly, she now has a new career plan that aligns with her strengths, values and the life she wants to create.

Why her story matters

Janette’s story is a wonderful example of why you don’t need to wait until you’re ready to leave before you start designing what comes next.

You can build the on-ramp while you’re still employed.

You can test ideas, communicate your value, activate your network and start creating opportunities before you need them.

And sometimes, when circumstances change sooner than expected, you discover you’re far more ready than you realised.

If you’re contemplating your own next act, this is the work we can do through 1:1 coaching, Define Your Next Act, or a combination of both: creating the space to get clear on what you want next, then building the strategy and momentum to make it happen.

When Your Career Hits a Speed Bump

A career quake in your late 40s or early 50s can feel particularly brutal because it often lands when life, health, family and career are already colliding. But feeling shaken at this stage does not mean your most powerful years are behind you.

Maybe you don’t want less. Maybe you just don’t want to pay the same price anymore.

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