Second Act: Mid-Life Career Change

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

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

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.

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

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