Group career transition programmes for mid-career professionals in Portugal who know their industry deeply — and are ready to understand what that knowledge can become elsewhere.
Fifteen years in construction. You've managed projects, teams, budgets, and crises. You're competent — and you're done. You just can't see what else you're qualified to do.
You've spent over a decade designing learning, reading rooms, and adapting to every kind of student. You want to leave education but worry your skills don't translate outside it.
Three mergers. Restructurings. Changing compliance landscapes. You've adapted to everything — yet you feel like the industry has moved on without you. Or perhaps you've moved on from it.
The pandemic clarified something. You rebuilt operations from nothing, managed under pressure, and kept teams together. Now you want to direct that capability somewhere new.
These are the people we work with most often — but the common thread isn't the industry. It's the feeling of having substantial experience and genuine uncertainty about where it belongs next.
Most career advice starts with a destination. We start with an inventory. Before you can make a sound decision about where to take your career, you need a clear, honest picture of what you've actually built over fifteen years.
Our four-week group programme works through this systematically. Not with personality tests and career quizzes — with structured methodology, peer reflection, and honest professional analysis.
A structured inventory of what you can actually do — documented, organised, and examined without the distortion of your current job title.
Identifying which of your capabilities have value in contexts you haven't considered — and how to articulate them to people outside your current industry.
Building a coherent story about your career that makes sense to someone who has never worked in your field.
Understanding how professional networks function in the Portuguese market and how to build meaningful connections in sectors you're exploring.
We don't place people in jobs. We don't have employer partnerships or commission arrangements. We don't push you toward any particular sector or outcome. Our work is to help you see clearly what you have — before you decide where to take it. What you do with that clarity is entirely yours.
The Portuguese job market has its own logic, its own networks, and its own pace. Our programme is built specifically around that reality — not imported from a generic international model.
Each week of the programme builds on the last. You work through the material alongside a small group of peers at a similar career stage — different industries, shared experience of being at a crossroads.
Individual coaching has its place. But career transition at mid-level has a particular challenge that individual sessions don't address well: the sense that your situation is uniquely stuck. It isn't — and working alongside people from different industries who are navigating the same uncertainty changes something fundamental about how you see your own position.
When a former bank compliance officer and a former secondary school head of department both recognise something in each other's professional story, it shifts how both of them understand their own transferability.
Our facilitators have worked in the industries we serve — and made their own transitions. They bring methodology, not theory.
Former organisational development consultant with background in financial services restructuring. Designed the competency mapping methodology at the core of our programme.
Spent twelve years in civil engineering before transitioning to organisational psychology. Leads the skills audit methodology and works directly with technical professionals navigating sector change.
Former teacher and later education policy advisor. Specialises in helping professionals build coherent career stories that communicate value across industry boundaries.
Twenty years navigating the Portuguese professional landscape across hospitality, tourism, and technology sectors. Leads the strategic networking module with specific focus on the Lisbon and Porto markets.
Edifício, R. Soeiro Pereira Gomes, Andar 11
1600-024 Lisboa, Portugal
Programmes run in Lisbon. Sessions are held in-person at our Lisbon office and at partner venues across the city. Contact us for current programme dates and availability.
The first step isn't deciding where to go. It's getting a clear picture of what you have. Our programme starts there.