Is it time to move from proficient to purposeful in your career?

At the start of your career I bet most research projects felt exciting….

The thrill of learning new things about a consumer, category or product based on the survey or guide you wrote to answer the brief

The satisfaction of guiding your clients or stakeholders to new insights about how to reach their goals gave a sense of purpose to your work, and you were damn good at that too, which is always nice!

But after some years, the shine is gone and you realise that it might feel a bit same old same old, am I right?

Or perhaps that you are working on companies, products or projects that are not aligned to your personal values and that is giving you a bit of the ick…

So you start asking yourself whether it’s worth it, or what else you could do that would make more of an impact?

Maybe you are wondering what you truly want from your career, or how you could make it more purposeful, yet feel trapped by the cost of your lifestyle or simply not wanting to start over?

What is purposeful work?

Your life purpose consists of the central motivating aims of your life—the reasons you get up in the morning.

Purpose can guide life decisions, influence behaviour, shape goals, offer a sense of direction, and create meaning

Elevate YOUR Path

is your gateway to uncovering what is meaningful, enjoyable for you AND crafting the practical steps you need to start making it happen.

Ready to take the leap?

To embark on an exciting journey towards Elevating YOUR Path and moving from proficient to purposeful over 8 x 1:1 coaching sessions designed to gently yet efficiently guide you there - say “I’m Ready!”

Or, if you'd like to learn more, keep reading...

If you feel you don’t have purpose, you are not alone…

  • Purpose is elusive

    Only between 5-10% of people actually claim to have found their life purpose

  • Purpose is valuable

    A staggering 90% of employees in USA would forgo up to 23% of their salary for a meaningful job

  • Purpose is an addition

    Almost a quarter (22%) of people in the UK find meaning through hobbies outside of work

When did you last ask yourself…

“What can I do in my life that is important?”

How you know something needs to change…

Say yes to 3 or more and its time to explore ways to add more meaning!

  • Work feels like a chore

  • You don’t want your leaders job

  • Unmotivated to learn new things for work

  • Worry about ethical / moral considerations

  • Dream about / live for your weekends / holidays

  • Can’t be bothered to tell people you meet what you do

  • Question if the world really needs [x] thing you are working on

  • You know you could make more of an impact but don’t feel listened to

However, its easier said than done…!

Why its harder to make a shift…

  • When you are more senior

    You’ve already invested approx 15,000+ hours into your current career

    Despite your 10+ years experience you still doubt yourself and worry how it will amplify in a new field

  • As a researcher

    You’re likely to be a bit risk averse and tend to make career decisions with a big dollop of “caution”

    You’re used to giving others insightful recommendations, less acting on them yourself

  • As a woman

    The gender gap is depressing enough in research, how will it be in a new field?

    The motherhood penalty may have set you back already & you can’t afford any more cuts in salary, benefits or flexibility

If your version of “PURPOSEFUL” looks like something totally different than what you do now, I’d love to help you explore it!

Much in the same way my own journey toward meaning led me from research towards coaching…

“Honestly the biggest thing I’ve taken is a peace in where I am right now and the importance of aligning to my values. Lara helped me break my ideas down in the sessions with some clear actions I could take away”

Elevate YOUR Path

Let me show you how to

  • connect to your values and what is important

  • generate more possibilities than you imagined

  • and bring them together in a clear and focussed way that allows you to start taking action

A 1:1 guided coaching package for senior women who want to leave the fuzzy, tangled web of ideas for their career behind and emerge with the clarity they need to make meaningful changes to their work and life

8 exercises accompany your 1:1 sessions

  • 1. Discovery and goal setting

    To begin I want to learn more about your current situation not just in work but in life as getting the context is critical to ensuring this partnership works well for you.

    We explore different areas of your life, how important they are and how satisfied you are with them before we begin

  • 2. Explore with Ikigai

    The Japanese word “ikigai” means a “life purpose”

    Ikigai refers to defining your personal meaning of life.

    This is in relation to your talents, passions, and profession, as well as what you can give to the wider world, and be paid for

  • 3. Peak Experiences

    In psychology, Peak experiences are often described as "transcendent moments of pure joy and elation".

    While you may not have these in your day to day work, we're going to use the concept to identify highs and lows that stand out during your career history.

  • 4. Career Dreams

    You might not be exactly playing small today, but are you really dreaming big?

    When people dream they set their sights on something bigger than themselves - even when it seems impossible.

    This gives them the motivation to make changes and take action

  • 5. Clarifying Purpose

    By this point, you’ve uncovered some big ideas and themes.

    During this session I’ll guide you through a visualisation exercise which is designed to help you bring clarity to what is most important to you and the impact you want to make on the world

  • 6. Ideas that WORK

    Through the lens of your purpose, we’ll go on to evaluate the ideas you have for the next stage of your career and think about how you will bring meaning via the framework Embed, Add, Pivot.

    We begin to strategise about how you will make some of your ideas a reality

  • 7. Get outta your own way!

    When you stretch yourself to new heights, it is inevitable that fears, worries, self doubt all creep in - you're only human after all!

    You have to be aware of the ways you might self sabotage (even on your highest mission).

  • 8. Reflect and Action Plan

    Now we celebrate in your final session everything you have uncovered and learned about what path you want to move forward with.

    We’ll draw together all the insights you have uncovered about

    • what is important to you

    • how you like to work

    • your career dreams

    • practical steps to make it happen

    • knowing your saboteurs

    And then deciding on 3-5 action steps during our final 1:1 to move you forward

My coaching sessions with Lara were truly transformative.

Ghada A. 

Elevate Your Path is £1000!

(Or 2 x £550)

Because I know that too much focus on doing a good job can get in the way of career planning, and instead of plodding along for months or YEARS longer feeling unsatisfied, unfulfilled and unhappy, I REALLY want as many women as possible to not only dream BIG but start taking action to make it happen too!

If this is out of your price range, I recommend you consider my smaller package, Create Your Career Vision

What is included?

8 x 60 minute virtual 1:1 session, where we deep dive on each exercise, explore different perspectives and crystallise your thinking - value £1200

8 focussed exercises with self complete instructions so that you come to each session ready to make the most of our time together - value £250

Text support over those 90 days so you get moving - value £150

My experience guiding myself & others through this process - priceless

Total Value £1600 | Package price £1000!

I’m Lara Meyer - researcher turned coach

I’m committed to empowering leaders in the insights industry to find fulfilment and success in their careers, whatever that looks like for them

In my research career, I had worked my way up, but when I reached my goal of leading an insights team, something felt off.

For a long time, I struggled with feeling like I was just going through the motions, working hard but not really connecting with what truly mattered to me. A few experiences knocked my confidence, and imposter feelings crept in more than I realised and I worked myself to a point of burn out and exhaustion more than once. It wasn't until I worked with a coach that I realised the power of aligning my work with my values and dealing with the negative self talk and unhelpful tendencies that held me back in certain workplaces.

That realisation led me to add coaching to my skillset, and develop a bold vision for supporting the leaders of our industry to deliver high-performing AND happy work environments for themselves and their teams.

Through my coaching work, I've seen firsthand how getting really intentional about our careers makes a huge impact - sometime this means big changes that are easy for others to see, other times a series of smaller or internal ones that are more of a subtle shift

For some of my clients, it's meant reaffirming that they're on the right path, while for others, it's been the catalyst for exploring new career paths or even switching sectors.

Whatever your career future may be, I'm here to help you realise your full potential, teach you the tools to stop you getting stuck, and create a vision for success that truly aligns with who you are.

Let's do this!

“Most importantly, my confidence in my path is more strong and steady”

“Working with Lara was instrumental in getting me to a place where I have taken, and am taking, concrete action steps toward my goals. The momentum built through our time together and has carried on since.

With Lara's warm encouragement, and gentle commitment to action, I have been able to 'act as if' each possibility was true, and follow each path enough to get a truer sense of what my next steps really are.

Now, things are unfolding with much more ease than I anticipated, and I'm certain my conversations with Lara were the catalyst that enabled me to sustain enough action-oriented focus to move these goals out of my head and into the world.”

Kathleen Naylor

I promise you, that the investment in yourself will ALWAYS be worth it

While I won’t guarantee that you will have more purpose in your work after the 8 x 1:1 sessions as the implementation work takes time, (and in fact if you could, your idea of purpose was way too small!)

What I CAN guarantee that I’ll push you to dream bigger than you thought possible, explose ideas you were scared to say out loud, and draw your thoughts together in a way that makes the path ahead easy to see.

You’ll have real clarity on what is really important AND feel super excited to explore further via a realistic action plan!

You have to be prepared to come into this ready to let go of any limiting beliefs that may keep you small, and trust that I’ll support you

Elevate YOUR Path is for you if:

  • You have that familiar “i’m stuck” feeling that sets in around 10 -15 years into a career

  • You crave more meaning in your work and are willing to explore a range of possibilities for how that could look

  • You are ready to dedicate a couple of hours a week to the process of uncovering your purpose

  • You want to put in the work now to make your career future more impactful

  • You are open to be (gently) pushed to explore your vision!

Elevate YOUR Path is not for you if…

  • You don’t have time to commit to reflecting, exploring

  • You have a set plan for your career already

  • You don’t really believe it could work  

FAQs

  • You should set aside around 2 hours per week to complete both the exercises up front as well as having the 1:1 with me. You can spend longer than this if you wish on the exercises, but these are designed to prime you for our sessions. Our calls together will be 60 minutes each time.

    My recommendation is to complete the 8 sessions over no more than 3 months. Planning for about 1 a week with a couple of weeks spare to allow for holidays or just needing some extra reflection time.

  • The more you put into completing the exercises up front, the more value you will get out of the 1:1 sessions with me. If you skip steps you will be missing out

  • You will be buzzing with excitement at the thought of your purposeful path! While it wont feel easy to get to your destination, it will feel tangible and clear to you what you want from a meaningful career and why

    At the end of our time together you will walk away with a clear view of your path and (at least) 3 action steps to get you moving towards it.

    What this looks like for you will be completely unique depending on your personal desires, interests and inputs.

  • When you sign up you’ll join an app called Voxer. This will enable us to send texts, pictures, voice notes to one another.

    So if during our time together you get stuck progressing your actions, then tell me what’s up and I’ll ask you some questions to hopefully get you unstuck, or I'll give you a bit of encouragement to move you forwards!

    My 6 month clients find this part of the service a real hidden gem

  • Did you know that women leaders who have uncovered what is truly meaningful to them are happier, more fulfilled and resilient to challenges menaing they even can get promoted more often, and earn more money.

    It really CAN be worth investing to further accelerate and align your career!

    Elevating my path to include meaningful work aspects not only evolved the focus of my career, but also my life – and I’d love to share that with as many women as possible

  • I know as you are busy and don't have the time to spend on more coaching / homeworks, and thats why I've designed it so so you need only 2 hours of input each week - 1 week with me and 1 hour on your prep.

    If you're even thinking that is a lot, keep in mind the amount of time you'll will be wasting in the long run by not bringing yourself this clarity - it could run into months or even years more (and possible bad choices further down the line)

  • This is a completely standalone service – so you can buy this on its own and get great results from it.

    If you want to learn more about what else I offer check out the services page here

Elevate YOUR Path: why wait?

So if you recognise that feeling of being successful yet uninspired, don’t just hope that the next step up will magically feel more fulfilling.  

If you can see the value in taking even more ownership of your career as you progress, then don’t waste any more time staying small because you haven’t invested a little time to explore your options

Sign up for Elevate YOUR Path, and take ownership of crafting your exciting career future today.

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