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 organizations 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, employees may struggle to understand how their experience remains valuable and where they can contribute next.
Some become hesitant. Some over-plan. Others quietly disengage because they can no longer see a credible path forward inside the organization.
Over time, that uncertainty can contribute to stalled internal mobility, reduced engagement, and preventable attrition.
Career Probe gives participants a practical method for responding. They learn to make sense of what has changed, recognize the capabilities they already carry, explore possibilities within reach, and design one intelligent next step.
That next step might involve growing within a current role, preparing for internal movement, contributing in a new way, or investigating a more significant transition.
Career agility is not the ability to predict every change. It is the ability to orient under uncertainty, recognize what remains valuable, explore plausible possibilities, and learn through responsible action.
Designed for moments when roles, expectations, and career pathways are changing
Here are some of the organizational challenges this work is designed to address:
AI disruption and automation
When familiar work changes faster than employees can reinterpret their own value, capable people may lose confidence in what they still have to offer.
Career Probe helps participants identify the human-value capabilities that remain important as work changes, including how they notice, interpret, relate, enable, and steward. They then consider how those capabilities could create value in an evolving role or context.
Retention and meaningful engagement
People who cannot see a future for themselves inside an organization do not always leave immediately. Some begin to disengage before they decide to go, making career uncertainty an important retention signal.
Career Probe gives employees a structured way to recognize what they carry, identify where they could grow, and investigate possibilities inside the organization. Staying can become an informed 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 for understanding what has changed, recognizing what remains valuable, and deciding what to investigate next.
Career Probe helps participants move beyond title and task language, identify capabilities they can carry forward, and develop a more grounded view of where those capabilities could create value.
Employees who want to grow internally often struggle to articulate why they are ready or what they would bring to a different role.
Career Probe helps participants recognize patterns in how they create value and describe those capabilities beyond the language of one position. This gives them a stronger foundation for conversations with managers, sponsors, talent leaders, and internal hiring teams.
Internal mobility and promotion readiness
Leadership development and high-potential cohorts
Future leaders often encounter identity and translation challenges before they encounter a straightforward skill gap.
They may know how to succeed in their current role but struggle to describe the leader they are becoming or the capabilities they will need at a new level of complexity.
Career Probe helps participants examine what is already present, identify what may be limiting movement, and design a bounded experiment through which they can learn before taking on a larger commitment.
Team capability mapping
Organizations often respond to disruption by auditing skill gaps. But an equally important question is what valuable capability is already present in the group and has not yet been recognized.
Career Probe’s Team Capability Mapping session uses LEGO® Serious Play® to help participants surface what they contribute and how those contributions create value. The session then synthesizes what emerges into a shared capability picture that the team and its leaders can use for development, collaboration, and future planning.
Career Agility for Complex Times
One full-day organizational engagement. Flexible delivery.
The core Career Probe organizational offer is a full-day experiential workshop for groups of up to 25. It can be delivered as one full day or divided across two half-days.
This organizational engagement is distinct from the public Career Probe workshop series. It is adapted through the sponsor alignment process to reflect the organization’s context, participant needs, and the changes affecting the organization. More extensive customization can be scoped separately.
Optional 90-minute individual coaching sessions are available as an add-on for participants who would benefit from private, focused support applying the workshop to their own career situation. The scope and number of sessions are determined with the sponsoring organization.
The workshop follows a structured arc. LEGO® Serious Play® is woven throughout as the primary sense-making method, not included as a separate activity.
Participants move through four stages:
Orient to the career terrain and conditions affecting movement
Identify capabilities they can carry forward
Explore adjacent possibilities within reach
Design a small, bounded Career Probe that can produce useful evidence
What is included
A sponsor alignment call to clarify context, goals, participant needs, and the problem the workshop should address
Pre-workshop participant briefing and framing materials
LEGO® Serious Play® integrated throughout the engagement as the core sense-making method
LEGO® building materials for participants to use during the workshop. The materials remain the property of Career Probe and are collected after the engagement.
Stuckness-pattern recognition that helps participants identify assumptions and thinking patterns without shame or oversimplification
Capability discovery that moves beyond titles and task lists to reveal how participants create value across roles and contexts
Adjacent-possibility exploration based on capabilities, experience, relationships, knowledge, and emerging organizational needs
Career Probe design, including a testable expectation, useful evidence, practical limits, and a clear stopping point
Structured individual reflection and facilitated small-group conversation throughout the day
A Career Probe Field Guide for each participant
A brief post-workshop sponsor conversation with aggregate, non-attributable observations
Organizations may add 90-minute individual follow-on sessions for participants who would benefit from private, focused support applying what surfaced during the workshop. The number, schedule, and scope of these sessions are established with the sponsoring organization and priced separately.
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. Her own path from a 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 through structured experimentation, capability discovery, adult learning, and complexity-aware facilitation.
Her background spans higher education, curriculum and learning design, coaching, organizational change, facilitation, and product strategy.
Frequently asked questions
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The full-day workshop is designed for groups of up to 25 participants. This limit preserves enough time for model-building, reflection, and meaningful conversation.
For larger groups, Career Probe can explore a cohort-based format or a customized session design.
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Yes.
The engagement begins with a sponsor alignment call to understand the organizational context, the changes participants are navigating, and the outcomes that would make the work useful.
Examples, prompts, emphasis, and follow-up recommendations can then be adapted without losing the structure of the Career Probe method.
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Yes. Career Probe can be adapted for virtual delivery.
The appropriate format depends on the group size, objectives, schedule, and material logistics. Virtual participants need a reliable Zoom connection, an appropriate workspace, and access to the agreed building materials.
Delivery format is confirmed during the alignment process.
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Participants leave with:
A clearer understanding of the conditions affecting their career movement
Language for at least one capability they can carry forward
A set of plausible possibilities connected to what they already bring
A small, bounded Career Probe designed to generate useful evidence
Participant materials they can continue using after the workshop
The workshop does not promise one correct career answer. It gives participants a more disciplined way to understand their situation and investigate what comes next.
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It can be, when the timing, sponsorship, and framing are handled responsibly.
Career Probe does not replace transparent change communication, outplacement support, severance guidance, or mental health services. It can give employees a constructive way to understand what has changed, recognize what they carry, and make more informed decisions under uncertainty.
We will discuss the organizational context before recommending an engagement.
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Career Probe is not designed to push participants toward either staying or leaving.
It helps people examine their situation, recognize where they create value, and gather better evidence before making a major decision. For some participants, that may reveal overlooked opportunities inside the organization. For others, it may clarify a different path.
The organization benefits from more credible development conversations, clearer capability language, and a better understanding of what employees need in order to see a future within the organization.
Let's find out if this is the right fit.
Send a short inquiry, and we will follow up within three business days to schedule a conversation.
In a brief, 20-minute conversation, we can explore whether Career Probe fits your group’s needs and what a practical engagement might look like.
You will leave the conversation with a clear recommendation and no obligation to move forward.