Presented by Eleven Canterbury

The Sessions (The sessions will vary by PROGRam.*)

Introduction: Uncovering Your Purpose and Brand

Moving from a corporate career to the next chapter is a significant life change. There will be challenges, both professionally and personally. Your social connections, behavior, and sense of self were likely directly related to your position, where you enjoyed having a team who delivered on your priorities, as well as other support staff and people who responded quickly to your calls and emails. Now, everything that was familiar is changing – and it’s important to remember change isn’t bad – and a whole new, exciting world is opening up for you.

This session will help you gain the perspective and skills to anticipate and navigate transition decisions in your next chapter. When living in alignment with your values and integrating your passions into what you do, you will be more enthusiastic, engaged, and unstoppable. Clarifying your purpose and big-picture outlook (your internal vision of what you want to achieve) will guide you as you create a roadmap toward achieving aspirations that will lead to fulfillment and a sense of well-being. A key part of that is framing your brand and your unique promise of value, a distinct and authentic representation of you. We will discuss insights to help you define your value proposition, position your strengths, and manage your choices to create future opportunities that fit your purpose and aspirations. These choices will require decision-making, prioritization, and learning from feedback.

Working with Private Equity

Facilitated by a person who has navigated this journey, this session will cover the Private Equity business model, the roles available within PE firms and their portfolio companies, the compensation scheme, and how to pursue opportunities. You’ll learn essential considerations to keep in mind when pursuing a PE position.

The Road to Certified Coaching

Discovering Work-Life Harmony

Transitioning from a corporate career can be both an exciting and a challenging time. Executives have deep commitments to, and close associations with their careers and employers. Moving on from their corporate identities so closely tied to their jobs and suddenly facing unstructured time can leave a void and be disorienting. But it is also an exciting time to focus on yourself, your family, and explore the many possibilities that await in this next chapter to add value to the world.

This session will focus on three key areas:

• Framing your purpose and strategy: Finding your ‘why’, the ‘how’ and the ‘what” that differentiates your personal brand and your unique values. This requires optimizing your mental edge, and learning to distinguish what’s important from what’s urgent now that your time is your own.
• Aligning your time and energy: Clarifying your boundaries and expectations enables delivering your personal brand and your unique values. Understanding what you can control or influence and most importantly shifting your focus from prioritizing what’s on your schedule to scheduling your priorities. Learning to find strength in uncertainty and deal with the many emotions, both good and challenging, that will arise as you transition to a new future.
• Staying relevant and resilient: This is a time to deal with transitions and learn to play a new game. Leverage your uncertainty to become stronger, grow, find new challenges and explore new opportunities and thrive. A key element of that is evolving your emotional intelligence and self-care practices.