For individuals facing disruption, interruption, or a career path that no longer fits neatly on a ladder
When you need a way to investigate what comes next, not simply another résumé rewrite
You have experience. You have capabilities. You may have a strong record of achievement.
But your next move is not obvious.
Maybe your field has changed. Maybe your role disappeared. Maybe AI, layoffs, caregiving, burnout, relocation, or a long-needed personal reckoning has changed what is possible or what you are willing to keep doing.
Career Probe helps you understand what has changed, recognize what you already carry, and investigate what could come next.
This is for you if…
You are a mid-career or senior professional and one of these feels familiar:
You have been laid off, reorganized, or pushed into career uncertainty.
You are returning after a career break and need to rebuild confidence, language, and direction.
You have outgrown your current field but cannot yet see what your experience could make possible elsewhere
You are successful on paper, but your work no longer fits who you are becoming.
You have a mixed, unusual, or interdisciplinary background that does not fit cleanly into job-search categories.
You are considering a pivot but you need evidence before making a major commitment.
You have spent months researching, reflecting, or planning without gaining much clarity.
You are tired of advice that treats your career as a straight line.
What Career Probe helps you do
Career Probe helps you move from vague uncertainty toward a more focused question and an intelligent next step.
Make your current terrain visible
Understand what has changed and recognize the conditions or thinking patterns that may be making movement difficult to see.
Recognize what you carry
Look beyond job titles and task lists to identify the capabilities you have developed and the value they create.
Explore possibilities within reach
Consider how your capabilities, experiences, relationships, interests, and knowledge could transfer, adapt, or be repurposed in a different context.
Design a small career experiment
Turn an important assumption into a bounded Career Probe that can produce real-world evidence before you make a costly or difficult-to-reverse move.
Choose your starting point
Option 1
1:1 Career Pivot Diagnostic Session
A focused, private session to examine a specific career question
This may be the right starting point if you want a contained conversation about your current career situation and what deserves your attention next.
During the session, we will examine where you are now, what has changed, what may be keeping you in place, and what question or possibility would be most useful to investigate.
You will leave with:
A clearer working map of your current career situation
A clearer picture of the capabilities, experience, and value you already carry
A focused question and practical next step for investigating what comes next
Format: 90 minutes on Zoom
Investment: $250
Best for: One-time clarity, early pivot exploration, post-layoff direction, or deciding what to investigate next
Option 2
Career Probe Workshops
Four live workshops for navigating nonlinear career change
The Career Probe workshop series offers a structured, hands-on way to work through four different parts of career change:
Make your current career terrain visible.
Uncover the capabilities you can carry forward.
Explore new career possibilities within reach.
Design a small career experiment.
Each two-hour workshop delivers a complete experience on its own. You may choose the workshop that best matches your current question, register for several, or follow the complete four-workshop sequence.
The workshops use LEGO® Serious Play® model-building, guided reflection, and facilitated small-group conversation to make complex career questions more visible and workable.
Format: Live, two-hour online workshops on Zoom
Investment: $149 per workshop
Group size: Limited to 16 participants
Best for: Professionals who want a structured, experiential process for investigating what comes next alongside others navigating complex career change
Frequently asked questions
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No.
Career Probe is particularly useful when you know something needs to change but cannot yet see the next direction clearly. You do not need to arrive with a fully formed plan.
If you already have a direction in mind, the process can help you examine its assumptions and determine what evidence you still need.
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No.
Career Probe addresses the questions that often come before a focused job search: What has changed? What do I carry? Where else could it create value? What direction deserves further investigation?
Once those questions become clearer, decisions about networking, positioning, résumés, LinkedIn, applications, or additional learning become easier to make intelligently.
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No.
You might use Career Probe to change industries, return after a career break, recover after a layoff, move into or out of leadership, reposition within your current field, or find a different way to use the experience you already have.
The change does not need to look dramatic from the outside to be significant to you.
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Yes.
A layoff can disrupt confidence, identity, relationships, routines, and direction at the same time. Career Probe helps you understand what has changed while separating the immediate disruption from the longer-term question of what comes next.
It does not promise to eliminate the difficulty of a layoff. It gives you a structured way to work with the uncertainty it creates.
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Yes.
A career break can create a translation problem, especially when your experience no longer fits neatly into conventional professional language.
Career Probe can help you recognize what remains valuable, what you developed during the interruption, and how those capabilities could create value in a new context.
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No.
Career change can be deeply personal, but Career Probe is a career strategy and professional development service. It helps you examine your situation, investigate possibilities, design experiments, and make decisions using clearer evidence.
It is not a substitute for mental-health care.
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No.
Career Probe can support professionals from many fields. It may be especially useful for people whose work depends on knowledge, judgment, relationships, interpretation, leadership, creativity, or navigating complexity.
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Choose the 1:1 Career Pivot Diagnostic Session if you want a private, focused conversation centered on your specific situation.
Choose a workshop if you want a hands-on, small-group experience focused on one part of the career-change process. You may take one workshop, several, or all four.
If you are not ready to choose a paid service, begin with the free guide.
Not sure where to begin?
Start with the free guide, Why You Feel Stuck in Your Career Pivot.
It will help you recognize five common thinking patterns that can make movement difficult to see and identify a more useful question to investigate.