This is a living collection of resources for my Coaching clients on making a mid-career change. Please contact me here if you would like to discuss how you may go further in this topic one-to-one or as a group. Please use the comments section at the foot of the page to suggest resources you have found useful on this topic and I'll add them for the benefit of others. I have a related set of resources on taking a career break or sabbatical

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change. Alan Alda

Sooner or later you must give up the hope for a better past Irvin D Yalom

Transitions: Making Sense Of Life's Changes

Disrupt Your Career: How to Navigate Uncharted Career Transitions and Thrive

What Should I Do With My Life?

How Will You Measure Your Life?

HBR Guide to Changing Your Career

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

The 100 Year Life

Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death: The Quest for Authenticity

The benefits of cultivating new interests

Finding Purpose in your Career

The real relationship between your age and your chance of success

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Seven lessons about Career Change with Professor Herminia Ibarra

Successful Leadership Transitions

Navigating Major Career Transitions

The psychology of your future self.

4 Steps to Making a Successful Career Change

Finding the Courage to Be Ourselves

We need to talk about (career) reinvention

The tendency to feel like a victim is associated with lower entrepreneurship, study finds

‘I haven’t eaten jam since’: how the side hustle ate the hobby

How to Connect With Your Future Self

"Navigating into the Future or Driven by the Past" (pdf)

How to Reimagine the Second Half of Your Career

Escaping the Survival Trap

The Sorrows of Competition

Life Is Short. What Are You Going to Do About That?

Should I Follow My Dreams?

Ask an Expert: How Do I Become a CEO?

Ageism in the workplace - the privilege of being the ‘right age’

Your Career Needs a Little Luck. Here’s How to Cultivate It.

Is Following Your Passion Only for the Privileged?

Entrepreneurship: What matters most

The New Post-60 Career Paths

Feeling unfulfilled or stuck at work? 3 ways to help you get unstuck

Time to get off the 'career track'

Beliefs about What Makes a “Good Job” Are Diverging

Considering a job change or other life change? 7 questions to ask yourself first

The Fallacy of the Self-Made

The Upside of Feeling Uncertain About Your Career

4 Questions to Help Women Navigate the Second Half of Their Careers

This is how to decide if returning to a former employer is the right choice

Don’t quit your day job: the benefits of being a ‘bifurcator’

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

A Measured Approach to Making a Drastic Change

Why Are So Many Knowledge Workers Quitting?

A stunning second act! Meet the people who changed course in midlife – and loved it

How Entrepreneurs Solve the Big Fish vs. Big Pond Dilemma

To Find Your Dream Career, Show Your Unconscious Who’s Boss

The 3 Phases of Making a Major Life Change

Pursuing the Arts After a Career in Business

Can you change yourself? Lucy Kellaway on the reality of reinvention

Making the Case for ‘Subjective Age’ in the Multigenerational Workforce

Reshaping Your Career in the Wake of the Pandemic

How Has the Past Year Changed You and Your Organization?

Considering a job change? Examine your motives first

These 3 Personality Traits Affect What You Earn — but Only After Age 40

Finding Direction When You’re Feeling Lost

4 Kinds of Workplaces, and How to Know Which Is Best for You

Mental Models for Career Changes

You’ve Climbed the Corporate Ladder. What’s Next?

How to Overcome the Struggles of Midlife

The Epitaph Question

8 Ideas for Getting Started on a Side Project and 39 Side Projects From the Buffer Team

Don’t Let Complacency Derail Your Career

Making the Change

Welcome to the Boardroom: Your Second Career

Those Unfulfilled Childhood Dreams? They May Still Be Driving You

Finding a Meaningful Second Act Career

Wisdom at Work: Why the Modern Elder Is Relevant

Change Career or Start a Business? It's Never Too Late to Pivot

You Should Plan On Switching Jobs Every Three Years For The Rest Of Your Life

What is the ideal age to retire? Never, according to a neuroscientist

Disrupt Yourself

What I Wish I’d Known When I Made a Drastic Career Change

How to Survive Your Midlife Blues

Personal Renewal, by John Gardner

The Longevity Opportunity

New Frontiers in Reskilling and Upskilling

Everyone Needs a Side Hustle

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Mahathir Mohamad