Career Design Consulting - Specialising in Professionals in their 40s, 50s and 60s
Learn the smart way to design your next decade to be MUCH better than your last.
Lucia Knight - Midlife Career Design Consultant
“Is this it?” How it feels to be career stuck.
It's hard to articulate what it means to feel "stuck" in a career that doesn't fit anymore, isn’t it?
It doesn’t have to be this way - book your first call
Some common threads in stories clients tell me:
they have built successful careers, yet experience Sunday night blues. Every Sunday night. Often, those blues begin on Sunday morning
they feel under challenged, bored, shrunk-to-fit, or like they are living their work life on a repeating loop
their dissatisfaction at work has begun to seep into life outside work
they begin to notice that their organisational culture jars with their natural style so much they need to hide their real selves at work
they have often experienced a recent difficult event in their personal lives (e.g. a personal health scare, an elderly parent's illness, a redundancy, or unplanned exit from their long-term company) which has triggered deep thought about their future
they very simply want "more" from their career...more satisfaction, more meaning and more enjoyment
The Boost your Joy-at-work Quiz (no matter how it feels today).
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Hey there, I’m Lucia Knight.
I'm a midlifer who has gone through several career transformations, so I know a bit about them. I’ve moved countries several times after leaving my childhood home in Northern Ireland. The first decade of my career was spent helping individuals to find similar jobs, in different companies. The next decade was spent hunting down the perfect new board member for growing or transforming companies across South East England.
After a couple of years of feeling progressively "career stuck", my midlife found me diving headlong (in hindsight it was purely escaping!) into a Psychology MSc. This included researching how personality influences work and life satisfaction (some people call this "happiness"), and a major research project into the future for over 50s in big corporates.
I now combine my head-hunting, management, coaching and psychology experience. I help other midlifers to design the future of their career in a way that fits and feels much better than their current work.
Outside of work, my husband and I have two feisty-yet-sensitive (Celtic genes) daughters who keep us busy. I adore the Desert Island Discs radio show, and am working my way through every episode ever recorded since 1942.
To make me feel alive, once a year I help organise a group challenge…which is always way beyond my physical capability. I'm usually at the back of the pack during these 12 hour challenges...until I spy the celebration drinks lined up at the bar!
Listen to a selection of guest podcasts - to learn more about how career design happens around here.
Read more about what happens behind the scenes in the Midlife Unstuck community and how it can help you make changes.
Become part of the Never too old, Never too late community.
Learn the smart way to design your next decade to be MUCH better than your last.
Here’s what you’ll get:
Exclusive career design content via email - before it makes it into the outside world.
Stories, how-tos, inspiration, and career design insights - to keep you motivated towards change.
Invitations to join programmes, masterclasses and events - to speed your career redesign.
Direct access to me up 3/4 times a week - so you can redesign your work situation as fast as you’re ready to.
Videocasts on Midlife Career Design
Here are a few of the videocasts I’ve been fortunate enough to be a guest on.
It’s serious work designing careers…but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. (Click the images to watch or listen)
