The Career RelaunchBlog

Have you been feeling disengaged at work? Do you feel your mind wandering? Do you wonder if this job is really the right one for you? You may not be completely unhappy per se, but you also know you’re not happy. You maybe wondering if what you’re feeling is normal. When you talk with your [...]

I’ve been through three major career changes in my life. I quit medical school after two weeks because I was unhappy. I left my marketing job in the Bay Area to restart my career in the UK. Then, I said farewell to my stable corporate job in London to start my own business. One thing […]

When I was thinking about leaving the corporate world to start my own business, one of the hardest things to figure out exactly what to do next. I had been feeling a bit detached from my work, and I wasn't sure exactly what that meant I should do. I still liked aspects of my marketing role, [...]

Exactly two years ago, I left my corporate marketing job behind. The kind of job that actually looked pretty decent on paper—nice salary, comfy corporate office, fancy job title, and the automatic reputation that comes with working for a blue-chip corporation. The kind of job you’re “supposed” to have after you finish your MBA, one [...]

Over 10 years ago, in my very first brand project, I worked on creating a new company name for the consultancy where I worked in Washington, DC. During the early days of the project when we were brainstorming ideas for a new name, the president of the company placed a book on my desk about Winged […]

When I decided to leave my full-time job to run my own, independent career consultancy last year, it marked the end of my 10-year run in the corporate world.  I went from working within for-profit companies in fast-paced, dynamic, organisationally complex business environments to a 1-man operation building my own business one small step at […]