About Kimberley

I think about transitions the way I have always thought about complex projects: understand the reality, assess the options, and build the route before you start. 

I know what it feels like to reach the point where you just want out, because that’s exactly what I did.

I reached breaking point, another burn out, bout of depression, misery and guilt. I could not see a way forward, so I quit my job. There was no carefully mapped-out plan behind it, I had enough.

At the time, I decided I was going travelling. I thought getting away from everything but travelling only made me more dysregulated and miserable. The last year since leaving corporate taught me I didn’t need to throw every version of myself away. I needed to look at what I was good at (cos I was a f*cking great PM) and what I was passionate about.

Leaving can feel like the solution when you are exhausted, frustrated or completely done with where you are but once the relief wears off, you are still left with the question: what now?

My own journey took me through that question in real time. I had to work out what I actually wanted, what I already had to work with, what kind of life I was trying to build, and how I could create something different without ignoring the practical reality around it.

That is a big part of why I do this work now and I know so many of you want the same but don’t know where to start because that was me for the last 10 years.

My professional background is in project management and commercial delivery. For more than a decade I worked in Construction with budgets, timelines, risk, dependencies, competing priorities and decisions. The way I planned complex project work was how I should have approached my own transition in the first place: understand the options, assess them and see the route before I started.

Now it’s what I help women do, not because I think every transition can be made risk-free or because you need to have every answer before you leave but because there is a big difference between taking a considered risk and making a major life decision with no route at all.

If I could go back, I would still have wanted change but maybe planned it differently, not shunned everything I had worked for and was good at.

Now I work freelance, teach yoga and have started my journey as a Transition Strategist. Over the past year, I have launched 3 other businesses and have learnt on my feet how to design websites, link payments, marketing, social media etc. Every part of that journey has got me to where I am today and I am extremely grateful because it now means I can help others leave corporate without having to take such drastic or risky actions, like I did.

Plan the transition before you make it.