For employers
Invest in your people’s future: invest in your success.
We believe that your employees are your greatest asset. By investing in their development and supporting them through career decision points and change, you’re not just investing in them – you’re building a stronger employee offering and a more resilient organisation.
Navigating change in the workplace
Even in the most successful companies, career inflection and decision points are a natural part of the professional journey. Whether you’re restructuring, downsizing, or supporting an employee to teenage or take their next step, Life Navigation Lab offers compassionate, effective and purpose-driven career decision-making support.
New directions
Rethinking, retraining and
building new connections
Stepping up
Building confidence
and shifting mindsets to take the next step
Career transitions
Reframing, pivoting
and setting new goals
Retirement
Creating new possibilities
and addressing fears
Life Navigation Lab offers tailored packages to support your staff through the challenges of mid to late career directions and decision-making. Our bespoke coaching programs and 1:1 support are designed to empower staff at every level, from frontline to executive roles, to understand their motivations and re-engage, rethink or reboot their relationship with work. We specialise in working with experienced staff from mid to late-career to help them make intentional, values-aligned decisions about their working life – be that to stay, step up or step out.
Supporting staff in their mid-career years?
The mid-career journey can be hard. Let us help your staff step forward with confidence.
If you have team members who are feeling lost, stuck, disillusioned or suddenly thrust into uncertainty in their mid career, we can help! Many people face uncertainty as they move into the second half of their working life, when assumptions they had previously held about work no longer seem to stack up. Browse our mid-career offerings, or get in touch for a chat.
Supporting staff in late-career decisions?
How do you provide effective and sensitive support to staff in late career?
If you have team members in the later years of their career or work journey who are wondering about what’s next, we’re here to help. Our coaching and programs make no assumptions about when, how or even if your team member will choose to leave work. But in later career it helps to think through options and be intentional about the years ahead. So whether your team member decides to stay on in the workforce, shift gears or step into the next phase of life, our late career offerings can help make that decision easier. Browse our late-career offerings, or get in touch for a chat.
Connect a team member with dedicated 1:1 coaching
Sometimes staff need focused attention and dedicated time to work out what’s going on for them in their work life and how to take their next steps. If you’d like to kick things off with a 1:1 coaching partnership for an employee who is navigating uncertainty, disengagement or a career transition, we can help.
- ICF certified coaching
- pre-paid bundles
- individualised support
Our clients include
Mel Lambert
Our lead coach
Mel Lambert is our founder and head coach in Life Navigation Lab. A qualified coach with certification from the International Coaching Federation and the Tiny Habits® Academy, plus Prosci change management certification and years of experience as a human-centred design practitioner, Mel is well-equipped to support your decision-making at every turning point in your lifelong career journey.
That’s the official bit.
Behind the qualifications, Mel has faced her fair share of decisions, doubts, deliberations and dilemmas in her own career! Having lived and worked in the UK, Europe and Australia, working in not-for-profit, public and private enterprises, she has a tonne of lived experience in navigating her own career path, complete with roadblocks and relocations, stops and starts, loss and rebuilding of networks – and confidence – along the way.
Throughout this journey Mel has applied her professional practice as a designer, coach and change manager to her own life, and now through Life Navigation Lab, you can draw on it too!
Enquire today
Whatever career decision or turning point you’re at, we want to make sure you get the right support to help you move forward and make decisions that work for you. We’re confident that you’ve got a better answer than anyone else – you just might need some help to work it out. Tell us a bit about yourself below and we’ll get in touch for a chat.
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Frequently asked questions
Life Navigation Lab has been created by Mel Lambert, an Irish woman living and working on Kaurna Land in South Australia. Mel is a qualified coach certified by the International Coaching Federation and behavioural coach with Tiny Habits® Academy. Mel has been designing and delivering peer-to-peer coaching and career/life transition programs since 2014. The best way to get to know her is to set up a time for a chat!
We have tried to keep what we offer simple, flexible and affordable so you can find something that works for you and your team members. If you are supporting staff who are stuck or unclear in their mid-career journey or who are between jobs, then the Career Transition Lab is ideal as it allows them to explore the options before them with both peer and 1:1 coaching support. If you’re looking for support for staff in late career and perhaps starting to think about the timing and circumstances around leaving the workforce, you may find the Life Beyond Work program to be a better fit as this focuses specifically on decision-making about whether to stay or leave the workforce and what might come next.
Yes! We offer 1:1 coaching instead of group programs if you think that will be a better fit. This can also be useful if you feel that one session may be all that is needed. If you are looking for leadership and executive coaching, we can also deliver that under our organisational coaching brand, Think Human. Get in touch to find out more about our rates and offerings.
While you can access 1:1 coaching through Life Navigation Lab, the heart of the Lab is small peer groups. Times of decision, uncertainty and transition can be lonely and staff in this position can feel like no-one else ‘gets it’. When they join one of our programs they get access to a group of peers who are in a time of change and uncertainty themselves. The peer-to-peer inspiration, support and encouragement this offers are key elements of the value and impact we offer.
Periods of decision, uncertainty and transition can be unpredictable, but they also don’t last forever! When you sign a team member up for a program or course, they get access to 6 months of ‘office hours’ support which allows them time to explore, reflect, connect, experiment and check back in on their career decision-making journey. Most people have a shorter period where they are actively engaged, and a longer time when they touch base again, as and when they need it. We also have a few peer-led online and in-person networks which operate informally around Life Navigation Lab which they are welcome to join if they align with their interests.
Here at Life Navigation Lab we want to make sure that career decision-making support is available to people from all walks of life, backgrounds and circumstances. In fact, often it’s when life gets tough that this support is most critical! We believe our employer-funded rates are as low as anything comparable you’ll find in the market, and offer a lower rate for not-for-profits. If your staff are self-funding we offer a sliding fee scale so that they can choose to pay what they can afford. However, if affordability is still an issue get in touch as we can occasionally offer more heavily subsidised places.