Start using the methodology and tools immediately with your clients
You’ll get our Lean Career Change Toolkit, which includes ready-made models, templates and scorecards — both in online and offline versions.
The Lean Career Change methodology is a radically different approach to career coaching, designed for our new world of work
Drawing on entrepreneurship, experiential learning and design thinking, the methodology combines reflection and action-based learning to provide new, powerful ways for your clients find more fulfilling work.
With a strong focus on other people being key to a successful career change, the methodology is designed to work both with individuals and with groups.
The methodology is built on Careershifters’ 14 years’ experience working with 12,500+ career changers across 60+ countries.
In our Practitioner Training, you’ll learn the Lean Career Change approach that sits at the core of our methodology
Career change doesn’t happen in a coaching conversation, much as this can be a useful part of the process; it happens in the real world.
The Lean Career Change methodology is designed to help your clients take focused, minimal-risk, real-world actions that lead to new ideas, new opportunities and ultimately to a successful shift.
The course is structured into three parts
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Core training
Learn the principles and tools that make up our Lean Career Change methodology in our 2-day initial online core training sessions.
Complete this training feeling clear about your new insights, excited about your toolkit, and confident about starting to use it with your clients
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Action-based learning
Start using the methodology and tools in your practice in the six months following your core training days.
Offer additional value right away to your clients; learn through doing; and refine your approach as you get input from your cohort and from the Careershifters team.
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Mentorship
Get regular online mentoring support from the Careershifters team during your action-based learning phase.
Deepen your understanding of the methodology through regular interactions with the Careershifters team.
You’ll be led by Richard and Natasha
Richard Alderson
Richard came up with the idea for Careershifters when he struggled with his own career change in 2004.
His background includes 16 years in entrepreneurship, coaching and leadership development. He co-founded an award-winning incubator for social entrepreneurs in India, as well as helping to set up a number of other social businesses in the UK and India. He's also been an IT/business consultant, journalist, environmental researcher and monk's assistant.
Natasha Stanley
In 2012, Natasha quit her charity sector career with a one-way ticket to Greece and no idea what to do next.
Since then, she’s lived in 12 different countries, and through her work as Head Coach and writer at Careershifters, helped thousands of people find fulfilling work.
With 20 years’ training and experience in personal development, performing arts, facilitation and coaching, leading transformative experiences is Natasha’s sweet-spot.
Richard and Natasha are regularly quoted as career change experts in media including
By taking part in the course, you’ll join the Careershifters coach community
Join a vibrant community of high quality career coaches
You’ll not only be joining an outstanding cohort of like-minded coaches, but also a wider community of coaches who’ve been trained by — and who work with — us across the world.
Complete the pre-requisites to work as a coach in our workshops
If you’re interested in working with Careershifters as a coach, this training is the pre-requisite for doing so. It qualifies you (but does not guarantee you) to be selected as a coach for our workshops and one-on-one coaching – and is a stepping stone to our advanced Certification programmes.
Leave with more confidence, credibility and effectiveness as a career coach
- Strengthen your coaching practice through new high-impact, cutting-edge tools and approaches to help your clients
- Form strong connections with a small group of high-quality career coaches to get new insights, ideas and support
- Get a lifetime license to use the Lean Career Change materials
- Join the Careershifters Coach Community
- Earn 12 ICF Continuing Coach Education units
What others have said about our coach training
"The training was full of energy, very engaging, informal yet professional. It gave me fresh ideas and knowledge -- and a renewed confidence in my approach. As a result of taking part, I’m now working with Careershifters as a coach in their London workshops. "
Shiobhaun Watt
- Nevis Coaching & Careershifters Coach
"The training has enabled me to take my career coaching to a new level. Its innovative tools, approaches and philosophy has enabled me to work with both individuals and groups in a new, powerful way. More surprisingly I’ve also found the course has strengthened my coaching approach more broadly and I frequently find myself referencing its principles in completely different coaching scenarios. "
James Bianco
- 6 Degrees Coaching
"The training has improved my confidence to use action based interventions as part of my client offer. My clients love it as it brings them new perspectives and enables them to explore being different in the world, safely and playfully. "
Barbara Greenway
- Greenway Coaching
"A great fresh new approach. My previous way of working was more linear, but this approach helps clients embrace and acknowledge the chaos they feel within themselves when going through a career switch. It also teaches them how to deal with the internal conflict using playfulness and lightness. "
Malvika Kumar
- Atom Career Consulting & new Careershifters Coach
"I can’t say enough about the quality of the training and its leading-edge knowledge of career change. Through it, I have increased my skills, knowledge and confidence in supporting my clients. I also enjoyed the strong connections made with other terrific, like-minded career coaches. "
Angie Fresch
- Fresh Coaching & Careershifters Coach
"The Practitioner Training disrupted in a very positive way my thinking around how to get clients unstuck. After going through the experience, I've now successfully established the Careershifters workshop in Manchester. "
Helen Burgess
- On Point Coaching & Careershifters Coach
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Questions?
- What are your selection criteria for taking part in the Practitioner Training?
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We’re looking for existing coaches who are genuinely passionate (and focused) on career transition work, and who are willing to actively contribute to the course -- and their fellow participants.
- I'm an experienced coach with a good toolkit. What will this add?
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The Lean Career Change Practitioner training will give you an approach and a set of tools that are unique.
Developed by Careershifters over more than 14 years of work, these take a non-traditional approach to career coaching, drawing on design thinking, entrepreneurship and experiential learning. They're designed to help your clients more easily identify other career options, test them out in risk-free ways and generate opportunities in the fields they're most interested in.
- What's the approximate workload required?
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There are two initial, short days of core training. In the six months afterwards, there'll be a series of monthly 1-hour mentoring calls and your own work with clients, where we hope you'll be practising using the methodology and tools.
- When are the dates of the follow-up group mentoring calls?
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We’ll set these with you at the beginning of the course.
- How many people will be taking part?
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Each intake is different, but you can expect up to 10 coaches to be part of your cohort.