The Impromptu Game Plan

From the start of her career, Melitta knew that both her passion and her strengths lay in marketing, communications, and branding. But after a happy and successful career, she realized that, as a mother to young children, she needed a better work-life balance.  Melitta started her own communications consultancy, but before she knew it, she was so busy that she lost that balance and suffered from burnout. Now, as a marketing coach, business mentor, and best-selling author, Melitta has found the right balance of her strengths, experiences, passions, and her values.

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Farah has had more than her fair share of adversity in her life. But she made the courageous choice to grow from her experiences and write a new chapter for herself.  She realized that her passion was to inspire brave new leaders to discover their awesome genius within. And to create a ripple effect in changing lives and impacting the world. 

https://www.interactconsulting.in/

When project manager Stephanie's husband was deployed to Afghanistan she finally found the motivation to turn her passion for art into a career. But it was once she started reaching back for her project management skills and experience, starting a business to help other artists, that she finally pivoted into a career that brought her strengths, experiences, passions, and values into true alignment.

www.stephanieweaverartist.com

After facing a life filled with roadblocks, dead ends, and personal tragedy with inspiring resilience, Johdi is now helping women over 40 develop their own physical, mental and emotional resilience. 

After a global education across Ireland, Singapore, and Australia, Sinead did some initial career exploration only to realize that the true alignment of her values and passions lay working in her family education business GetReskilled. Not only is her career and life story inspirational, but she has fascinating insights about how her company helps its clients understand how they can find the right career for their second-half of life. 

www.getreskilled.com

A series of life challenges helped Marie to realize that her job was not aligned with her values. She pivoted into a  corporate role leading a global wellbeing center of excellence. But eventually, she realized that in order to fully align her strengths, experiences, passions with her values, she needed to leave corporate life and work for herself as a Wellbeing Consultant & Career Coach

https://www.mariechequer.co.uk/

Nikole loves her job, as a CAD designer in fashion, but wonders whether her passion for horticulture and its intersection with social justice and food scarcity is something that could translate to a career pivot.  We discuss techniques for working through her options and brainstorming what that career pivot might look like. 

Sarah thought she would be a secretary for life until some unexpected career bumps in the road forced her to pivot. Utilizing her network and relationships, she has managed to bring her strengths, experiences, and passions into alignment working for Simple Revolution, a values-based brand strategy company.  She now has the work-life balance and flexibility she needs while finding true career happiness, helping a young, dynamic business grow and flourish. 

From an accidental start as a computer network engineer, through almost two decades as a software developer, with a wonderful pivot to being a storytelling guru, Sarah feels that she's now in a place where she has done a pretty good job aligning her strengths, passions, experiences, and values.