Today we're joined by guest Adam Forbes, the original Corporate Escapologist. He's here to talk to us about the possibilities beyond corporate and valuing the breadth of experience that corporate roles have given us. Adam spent 25 years working happily and successfully within the four walls of major corporates in marketing strategy, business development, and finance, ducking and weaving within energy retail, government, and consulting. 

Adam saw firsthand what happens when restructuring or other significant disruptions to the workforce result in individuals making the choice to leave or having that decision forced upon them, and observed how talented people from across all levels and roles often struggle to see beyond traditional corporate career paths. So in 2020, he made his own leap, establishing himself in a new career as a valued adviser to corporates, startups, and individuals as well as the founder of Familiarize, a marketing consultancy for startups and program director for Startup Bootcamp, which is an accelerator. Adam writes a successful blog as the Corporate Escapologist about his time leaving a leading corporate to start a new business and build a more varied dynamic career designed around his values and needs. Through his work coaching and advising fellow corporate escapologists preparing to leave corporate jobs through choice or redundancy, Adam has identified a simple method to help them effectively through the stage of disorientation, fear, and panic to a greater appreciation of their own capabilities and options for the next phase of their career.