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Career Change Group Coaching for Professionals

Career Change Group Coaching for Professionals

Career Development Experienced professionals with 8+ years in their field 10 weeks Published: 2025/11/22

About this program

Career change at the professional level is a different problem

When you have ten or fifteen years of experience in a field, changing direction is not just a matter of learning new skills. You have a salary, a professional identity, a network built around a specific role, and real financial obligations. The stakes are different. The timeline is different. The decision-making process needs to be more careful.

This program was built for people in that position — not for recent graduates figuring out what to do next, but for professionals in their 30s and 40s who have done solid work in one field and are seriously considering a move to another. The group format matters here because you are not alone in this situation. Talking through the real trade-offs with other people navigating the same transition is genuinely useful in ways that one-on-one coaching or online research cannot replicate.

What the program covers

The ten-week program is structured in three phases. The first phase is about assessment — understanding what you are actually good at, what the market values in your target direction, and where the gaps are. This sounds obvious but most people skip it and jump to tactics. The second phase focuses on research and reality-testing: conversations with people already working in your target field, skills prioritization, and financial scenario planning. The third phase is about making and executing the decision — whether that means starting a job search, building a transition portfolio, or launching a side project to test the direction before committing.

Group composition

Groups are intentionally cross-industry. Having a former engineer, a teacher, and a marketing manager all thinking through career transitions at the same time creates more diverse perspectives than a sector-specific group would.

Changing careers takes longer than most people expect when they start. This program helps you plan for the realistic timeline and make decisions that hold up under pressure, not just in a hopeful moment.

Program outline

Ten-week structure

Phase 1 — Assessment (Weeks 1–3)

  1. Week 1: Current situation audit — what you have built, what is transferable, what is not
  2. Week 2: Values and constraints — what actually needs to be true for a new direction to work
  3. Week 3: Target directions — narrowing from ideas to two or three realistic options

Phase 2 — Research and testing (Weeks 4–7)

  1. Week 4: Market research methods — how to get reliable information about a new field
  2. Week 5: Skills gap analysis — what to develop, what to show, and in what order
  3. Week 6: Financial planning — scenario modelling for the transition period
  4. Week 7: Individual spotlight sessions — each participant's specific situation gets group attention

Phase 3 — Decision and action (Weeks 8–10)

  1. Week 8: Making the decision — how to move forward when you cannot have perfect information
  2. Week 9: Transition plan — 90-day and 6-month action maps
  3. Week 10: Accountability structure and program close
Session length
90 minutes per week, live video
Group size
6 to 8 professionals
Access
Session recordings, resource library, peer group chat