Your people are more adaptable than they know.
Help them see it.
Career Probe brings a practical method for career agility, internal mobility, and professional growth to teams navigating disruption, reorganization, and complex change.
Career disruption does not wait for a convenient moment.
When organizations face AI adoption, restructuring, or rapid market change, the people most affected often lack the tools to respond constructively. They freeze, over-plan, or disengage. The cost is measured in lost talent, reduced confidence, and teams that struggle to move.
Career Probe gives your people a practical method to understand what is keeping them stuck, and see the capabilities they already carry. From there, they design one intelligent next step, whether that means growing in their current role, preparing for internal movement, or navigating a significant transition.
Left unaddressed, career uncertainty shows up as disengagement, stalled internal mobility, and quiet attrition. Career Probe gives people the tools to respond constructively before the cost becomes visible.
Designed for moments when the stakes are genuine and a standard professional development program would not be enough.
Here are some of the challenges our clients are facing:
AI disruption and automation
When familiar work changes faster than people's understanding of their own value, capable employees lose confidence in what they still have to offer. Career Probe helps them identify what remains genuinely human and hard to automate in their expertise, and design one concrete next step toward a strengthened role.
Retention and meaningful engagement
People who cannot see a future for themselves inside an organization do not always leave immediately. They disengage first, and attrition follows. Career Probe gives employees a structured way to identify where they can grow next, making staying a deliberate choice rather than an act of inertia.
Restructuring and role change
When roles shift, disappear, or are redefined, employees need more than reassurance. They need tools to understand what they carry and where it can take them. Career Probe helps people make sense of what has changed, translate their experience into language that travels, and identify a viable next direction before uncertainty becomes disengagement.
Employees who want to grow internally often struggle to articulate why they are ready or what they would bring to the next role. Career Probe helps them move from role language to capability language, so they can have more credible conversations with managers, sponsors, and hiring teams before the opportunity arrives.
Internal mobility and promotion readiness
Leadership development and high-potential cohorts
Future leaders often hit identity and translation problems before they hit skill gaps. They know their current role well but cannot yet describe what kind of leader they are becoming. Career Probe helps them examine what is already present, name what is in the way, and design one experiment toward the next level of complexity their role requires.
Team capability mapping
Most organizations respond to disruption by auditing skill gaps, but the more costly problem is the capability already in the room that no one has named. Career Probe's Team Capability Mapping session uses LEGO® Serious Play® to help each participant surface what they actually contribute, then synthesizes what emerges across the group into a shared picture the team and its leaders can use.
Career Agility for Complex Times
One full-day engagement. Flexible delivery.
Our core offer is a full-day experiential workshop for groups of up to 25, delivered as a single day or across two half-days.
Individual 90-minute intensives are available as follow-on support for participants who want focused help applying what surfaced during the day.
The workshop follows a structured arc. LEGO® Serious Play® is woven into each stage as the primary sense-making method. Participants move from recognition to reframe to a concrete commitment.
What is included
Pre-workshop participant brief, framing materials, and problem-frame alignment call
LEGO® Serious Play® integrated throughout — the core sense-making method, not a standalone activity
Career Trap identification: naming stuckness patterns with precision and without shame
Capability Translation: moving from role language to portable capability language
Career experiment design: each participant leaves with one concrete, low-risk next step
Structured individual and small-group reflection woven across the full day
Post-workshop facilitation summary and participant takeaway document
Facilitated by a career strategist with deep experience in complex transitions.
Career Probe was created by Dr. Renée Anne Poulin, a career strategist, Agile transformation coach, workshop designer, and former university professor. Dr. Poulin's own path, from humanities PhD and academic life into Agile coaching and product strategy, shaped the method at the center of this work.
She has spent years helping people and organizations navigate complex, ambiguous transitions using structured experimentation, capability translation, and complexity-aware facilitation. Her background spans higher education, adult learning, curriculum design, coaching, and organizational change.
Frequently asked questions
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The standard full-day workshop accommodates up to 25 participants. For smaller groups, the workshop can be scaled down. Sessions work well with as few as 8 to 10 participants and tend to produce more intimate and in-depth work at that size. For larger groups, a series format or multiple cohort sessions may be a better fit. Group size and format are part of the inquiry conversation.
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Yes. The workshop is oriented around one of five problem frames selected during the inquiry conversation. Examples, language, and facilitation emphasis can be adapted to your industry, workforce context, and current change moment. A sponsor planning call is included for all engagements.
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Yes. Career Probe is designed to work well online. For workshops that use LEGO® Serious Play®, participant materials can be mailed in advance or coordinated with the sponsoring organization. Participants need a stable internet connection, a camera, and enough desk space to build and reflect.
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Each participant leaves with a named capability map, a Career Trap they have identified and can work with, and one specific career experiment — a small, concrete next step designed to generate real information about a direction worth pursuing. In structured building formats, participants may also leave with photos of their LEGO® models and written reflections.
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It can be, but the framing matters. Career Probe should not be used as a substitute for clear organizational communication, severance support, or formal outplacement services. It is best used as a career development and transition-readiness experience that gives people practical tools for navigating uncertainty. It is not not a replacement for honest conversation about what is happening.
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Career development always surfaces questions about fit and future direction. Avoiding those questions does not create retention — it often creates quiet disengagement. Career Probe helps employees see possibilities more clearly, including internal possibilities they may not have considered. It can support internal mobility, redeployment, and more constructive career conversations with managers.
Let's find out if this is the right fit.
Send us a short inquiry and we will follow up within three business days to schedule a conversation.
In about twenty to thirty minutes, we can determine whether Career Probe is the right fit for your group and what a practical engagement would look like. You will leave the conversation with a clear recommendation, and no obligation to move forward.