If you have team members exploring the later stages of their career and wondering what’s next when (and if!) they leave work, we’re here to help them work out what’s right for them. Traditionally called ‘retirement’, let us support them to rethink it as a whole new beginning!
What if we knew we had another 40 years of life beyond work? How would we spend it? Our Life Beyond Work course will give your staff member the resources and strategies they need to work that out, when and how they need it.
For too long discussion about late career transitions has framed as an ending. At Life Navigation Lab, we work with people to shake off old models of ‘retirement’ and reframe this period of life as one of new opportunity and untapped potential – with or without paid work as a part of their next chapter.
Live ‘Mindset for Life’ course
Supportive community
Downloadable resources
Monthly office hours
Peer forums & discussion
Ongoing access
Sign up your team member to our next cohort intake and give them access to our four-week course, evidence-based resources and tools, regular office hours and networking opportunities.
Our award-winning Life Beyond Work program equips people to:
Identify strengths and skills for life beyond work
Create a sense of purpose aligned to each person’s unique values
Build new connections and identify new opportunities
Thinking tools
Explore options at a self-guided pace
Our self-guided ‘thinking tools’ are bite-size resources to help people plan for a long life! Covering topics like wellbeing, mindsets, purpose, motivation and decision-making, members can use the tools whenever and wherever they like for many years to come. Our thinking tools will help to:
Work out what matters most in late career transitions
Build on content from facilitated sessions
Curate a timely and fitting late career transition
Ongoing support
Stay on course
Following participation in the Life Beyond Work course your staff member will have the opportunity to discuss what they’re learning in our monthly office hours, access other curated content and connect with peers also exploring their next steps.
Build accountability and keep up momentum
Access other career transition content to support their journey
Learn from others’ experiences and share their own
“I'm a different person now to the person who did the retirement transition course. I completed the original course 8 years ago and still use the concepts we explored. They provide insight into life and help balance the challenges and opportunities that come after leaving work.”
Greg O’Connell
Former course participant
“Thank you for your team’s excellent Life Beyond Work course […] The tiny actions have already begun to increase my sense of achievement rather than being overwhelmed by all that I haven’t yet had time to do!”
Mike, City of Salisbury Council
Life Beyond Work course participant
“I'm more open to exploring freelancing or multiple options for this transition… not to retirement but an ongoing smorgasbord of optional choices in which to use my passions, knowledge and skill. Thanks for the program – it's been just what I needed to embrace change instead of feeling stuck”
Barb, SA
Life Beyond Work participant
“At the Life Beyond Work sessions I discovered it wasn’t just me who was feeling a bit lost and disappointed with the retirement experience. I came away with more understanding of what I needed to do to make my retirement a success.”
Stephen Merrett
Life Beyond Work program participant and peer convenor
“I learnt to be kind to myself as I change gears in my career. I learnt to listen and respect my story as I progress to the next chapter in my journey of life. I enjoyed the course immensely. The weekly activities gave you an opportunity to reflect and add tiny habits into your week.”
Margaret, SA
Life Beyond Work participant
“Like any major period of change in one’s life, it can feel scary, unsettling and stressful. Life Beyond Work is a shared experience that empowers participants to become ‘transition champions.’”
Chris, Ballarat
Life Beyond Work participant and peer convenor
“I am so enthusiastic now about my next career transition and am feeling so confident!”
Pete Macfarlane
Life Beyond Work participant & peer convenor
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!