For a long time, I told myself I was stuck because I didn't know what I wanted next. That explanation was convenient. It saved me from admitting something more uncomfortable. I knew what was not working. Managing people drained me in ways I had not anticipated. The workload was manageable, but the difficulty sat in the dynamics. There were political undercurrents in the team that I recognised and addressed directly. Resistance showed up in missed deadlines, incomplete work a

What if what’s limiting you isn’t what’s happening in your life, but the explanation you keep returning to when you think about it? This is the midlife malaise narrative and it's harder to see than anything happening around you. Understanding Your Life Narrative Everyone carries a narrative about how their life works. It’s the story you rely on to explain why things turned out the way they did and what you expect will happen next. You don’t sit down and revise it. Instead, it

Understanding the Challenges of Re-Entry If you're navigating midlife career re-entry following a break - whether by choice, redundancy, or a life change forced upon you - you may find it harder than you expected. Fewer roles are available. Some positions are not being renewed. AI is changing hiring decisions. Redundancies are increasing. Even with experience and a strong network, re-entry takes more effort and persistence than it once did. For many, age and past seniority no

Mid-life malaise is a strange thing. It doesn’t announce itself. You realise, almost by accident, that you’ve been running on muscle memory for far longer than you’d like. You’re working hard, busy, doing what you’ve always done, but the spark that made it feel worthwhile has slipped out of reach. Understanding Mid-Life Malaise That was my experience of it. Not a crisis, but a growing sense that the work I was pouring myself into no longer connected to anything that mattered

I dismissed Human Design as woo-woo when my coach mentioned it in 2019. Three years later, it gave me language for patterns in my life I had spent decades questioning. Charts, archetypes and energy types did not seem like something that belonged anywhere near the world I worked in. At the time my career sat firmly inside the corporate world of asset management. My title was Senior Vice President and my roles included Head of Consultant Relations EMEA and Director of Asset Man