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Disrupt Your Career Podcast, October 28, 2021
Claire Harbour and Antoine Tirard connect with Jan and Jon to talk about their own career changes, why they wrote Changing Gear, the challenges of transitioning into the third stage of life, the psychological frameworks they use as coaches, and an eight-step transition process to help people find their new selves.
The Financial Times, July 8, 2021
“It can clearly be unsettling to recognise you are entering a new and perhaps very different stage of life. ‘Power over others seems inexorably to lead to an inflated view of oneself’, the authors write. ‘The sense of importance that work provides is seductive, and the relative predictability of command-and-control work relationships . . . can become an addictive retreat from any sense of vulnerability’.”
Stefan Stern writes in the FT about the ‘third age’ and how to prepare for life after an intense career, examining Changing Gear’s eight-step plan for successful career transition.
PI Capital Webinar, May 11, 2021
Jon Stokes & Jan Hall discuss their book, Changing Gear at a webinar hosted by Pi Capital
The Economist, April 17, 2021
Bartleby writes: “In their new book, Changing Gear, Jan Hall, a former headhunter, and Jon Stokes, a psychologist, discuss the strategies that people can follow when approaching the “third stage” of life, after their childhood and their careers….This is a critical issue. Think of all the time people spend deciding which university they would like to attend, which course they would like to study and which career they would wish to follow. Deciding on their post-career lifestyle is just as important. They may have decades left to enjoy…. [They] must work out who they have been, who they are now, and who they would like to become.
[Changing Gear] presents a series of case studies of people who have been through this kind of upheaval, some a lot more successfully than others... readers will discover that the individual stories are instructive and the questions posed by the authors are important.”