“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” - Mark Twain
“If opportunity doesn’t knock - build a door”
Milton Berle
For many of us the thought of starting a new career in our forties or even fifties looks daunting.
It’s easy to think you have a binary choice - to rip everything up and start again or to keep running faster on that hamster wheel, working faster, becoming unhappier.
That hamster wheel has a price. It affects relationships, families as well as our physical and mental health. When work is over, the only ones who’ll remember how hard you worked, how much time you spent in the office or away from home will be your family. No one else will care.
Careers Redesigned is about finding your position of strength and redesigning what you do to find a market for all the good you bring. The power to redesign is endless and it’s yours to master and make your own.
What brings me here
Hey I’m Ian. I’ve spent over 30 years in the corporate world designing customer products & services, pulling things apart and recreating something new, unexpected yet meaningful to others. It took me until my mid-life to appreciate that job and career are not the same thing. Yet the skills of redesign puts us back in control of how we spend most of our waking hours.
What I believe
By mid-life we think we’ve learned the rules of success but gradually it creeps up on us that someone changed the rules and what got us this far isn’t going to see us through. We fear irrelevance & there’s not enough time to be something else. Truth is with new jobs being invented all the time, it’s never been a better moment to redesign. In mid-life you’re in a position of strength, you’ve seen off big challenges, you’ve power, skills and networks to leverage - all you need is creativity and redesign skills to make more of what you have and turn it into something powerful that works for you.
What I bring
Work with me and you get all my experience in helping mid-lifers shift gear in their careers. You get the benefit of my extensive training in psychology, neuroscience, a masters degree and assurance that comes from being examined and accredited by the International Coach Federation. You get access to a proven career shift methodology developed by Firework Career Shifters that has helped tens of thousands of people just like you.
And you get me - a compassionate but honest champion. Whose not afraid to have the fierce conversation with you, if that’s the wake-up call you need, who’ll dare you face into mindsets and perceptions you’ve been acquiring all your life that are now holding you hostage, who’ll push you to think wider and more creatively but ultimately who is the champion of your values and strengths and wants you to do well on your own terms.
“Describing Ian as my coach? Warm, wise and a gently wicked sense of humour that challenges and brings the best out of me. He will push me forward, but I know I know I’m in safe hands if I fall”
Got questions - great let’s talk
If you have questions about the programme and how it can help your specific situation - great.
drop me an email using the enquiry form below
send me a message through WhatsApp
schedule a 15 minute chat, tell me what aspects of your career you’d like to make better and we’ll figure out together if this programme is right for you
Ready to go - then let’s get started
If you’re feeling ready to go, let’s schedule a 45 minute call so we can focus on motivations, goals and what you want to achieve from the Careers Redesigned programme, ensuring you have all the information you need to get the most from the programme, and let’s get the work.
Contact me.
hello@ianbrownecoaching.com
+44 791 5636 231
Made with love in Bristol, United Kingdom
BS166SY