Activate your next.
Use what you've already built, your skills, experience, expertise and perspective, to craft what's next.
The world of work is changing fast, and you can feel it.
Knowing you want to leave, change direction or reinvent your career is one thing. Knowing how to turn everything you've already built into what's next is another.
Maybe you're:
- Leaving corporate.
- Moving out of a role that no longer fits.
- Rethinking a career you've outgrown.
- Approaching retirement and wondering what's next.
- Ready to create a different kind of working life.
You may have 10, 15, 20+ years of experience behind you. A deep bank of skills, expertise, relationships and perspective.
The question is how to leverage all of that, rather than leave it behind, and turn it into new work.
Not necessarily another job.
Maybe something you build.
Something you combine.
Something that doesn't have a job title yet.
Find what's worth moving towards.
Activate Your Next helps you notice those signals, and do something with them.
A simple three-step approach.
Listen to what's underneath the “I'm done.”
Use frustration and irritation as information, rather than something to suppress or explain away.
Follow the wants with spark.
Make room for desires, ideas and possibilities before turning them into something sensible.
Take a sidling step.
Not the leap. A small experiment that lets you get closer to what might be calling you.
You're not starting again.
You're working with what you've already built,
and discovering what it could become next.
You don't need to have the answer before you begin.
You don't need another career plan.
- More research.
- Apply another framework.
- Start a pro/cons list.
- Wait for it to feel “sensible.”
Something is reshaping the world of work right now, and the old career model doesn't always know what to do with people whose experience no longer fits neatly into one role, one title, or one ladder.
We believe your accumulated experience is not something to discard when you change direction. Your skills, expertise, relationships, perspective, curiosity and lived experience are material. The question is what you can make from them.
A job title was always too small to hold all of you. You're not one thing to resolve into a single line. You're allowed to weave multiple threads, step off the ladder, and make your way across open ground. You make the path by walking it, not by working it out first. Whatever comes next for you, we hope you don't talk yourself out of it too quickly.
Created by people who work at the edges of what's next.
Mirjam van Vliet
Has built and run multiple businesses and now works with founders, leaders, and new reality creators at two edges of growth: amplifying what already has momentum, and bringing genuinely new products, categories, and business models into the world. Her work explores how to scale both, without losing the distinctiveness, creativity, and aliveness that made them worth growing in the first place.
Sonja Blignaut
A Waysfinder, author, and advisor who works with leaders when familiar maps and playbooks stop being useful. For more than 25 years, in companies including IKEA, Electrolux, and Itaú, she has worked at the edges of what organisations can plan, predict, and control. Her work explores how to create enough coherence to move, without closing down the difference, experimentation, and responsiveness that growing under uncertainty requires.
10 short emails, delivered over a few weeks. Work through them at your own pace.
Prompts and experiments to help you work with what you've already built, explore new possibilities and identify the threads worth pursuing.
Audio guidance and a practical booklet to return to as you continue shaping and exploring what's next.
€55
Activate
your next.
A practical self-paced experience to help you turn
your experience, expertise and perspective into
possibilities worth pursuing and start finding
the shape of what's next.
Ten short emails.
Practical exercises and audio.
A resource booklet to keep.