Career Change Coaching
A career change is part decision and part endurance. Marlee shows you what drives you so you can test a new direction first, then Coach Marlee, your AI coach, helps you keep going when the middle gets hard.
Free to start. No credit card needed. Test a new direction before you commit.
Many career changers know what they are leaving. Far fewer know what they are heading for.
That gap is where people stall, or jump into a role that repeats the same problem under a new title. The Marlee Motivational Analysis measures 48 work motivations, so you can see what you actually need from work. Coach Marlee then coaches the change itself, across 1,000+ goals that span work and personal life, because a career change touches both.
The same pivot looks different depending on how you handle change. Marlee measures motivations that speak to exactly this.
Pioneering is described as driving new ideas and leaping fearlessly into new environments. If that sounds like you, momentum is easy and staying power is the risk.
How to coach it: set checkpoints that stop you leaping again before the new path has had a fair trial.
Incremental change describes a preference for adjusting over time rather than all at once. A side project or a part-time course often suits you better than quitting.
How to coach it: design small, low-risk experiments, and give each one a date for a decision.
Status quo bias is a preference for keeping things as they are and staying consistent. It is a perfectly good trait, and it explains why a change can feel heavier for you.
How to coach it: name what will stay the same in the new role, so the change feels less like losing everything.
Most people are a mix. Your own analysis shows your full pattern across 48 work motivations.
Before you retrain or resign, ask Ask Marlee which kinds of roles you would thrive in and which would drain you. It answers from your own analysis, so you test a direction against what drives you instead of against a job title.
The Goal Catcher program helps with the bigger question underneath: what will make you happy at work. Over 8 weeks, Coach Marlee guides you through your values, your life vision and your life mission, which gives your change a reason that lasts longer than a bad week.
If your change is partly about stepping into more influence, see the Personal Power program.
The first week of a pivot is exciting. Month three is not. That is when you are no longer good at your old work, and not yet good at your new one, and imposter syndrome tends to arrive.
Coach Marlee works with you through exactly that stretch, in your own time, on goals as different as confidence, learning a new field and handling the money worry that tends to come with it. When you want a person, a certified human coach works from the same data. The bench is trained in an evidence-based methodology co-developed by Michelle Duval, a pioneer in coaching since 1997.
Different parts of a pivot need different help:
The free plan gives you your Motivational Analysis and a complete 8-week AI coaching program, so you can work on a real career question for two months and see where it takes you.
Younger and just beginning? Find Your Workverse is Marlee's playbook for Gen Z, written by Michelle Duval, Dan Negroni and Coach Marlee.
You can take these in order, or dip into the one you need this week.
Complete your Motivational Analysis for an instant read on your 48 work motivations. Look at what energizes you, not just what you are good at.
Use Ask Marlee to compare ideas. Which roles would suit you, which would wear you out, and why.
Pick a goal with Coach Marlee, such as speaking to three people in the field or finishing a short course, and see how it feels to do the work.
Choose your direction, then lean on Coach Marlee, and a human coach if you want one, to keep momentum while you build the new career.
of coaching users achieve their goals within just 4-8 weeks
work motivations measured in the Marlee Motivational Analysis
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“Coaching with Marlee helped me build deeper levels of self-esteem and how I value myself vis-a-vis the greater world. It also taught me courage to believe in my beliefs, and that it is not about success or failure, but that we give it a go, a try.”
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A new job fixes a problem with an employer, a manager or a team. A career change fixes a problem with the work itself. Your Motivational Analysis helps you tell them apart, because it shows what you need from the work you do, such as how much structure, people contact or autonomy.
Ask Marlee can then compare your current role with what you need. If most of the friction sits with the people, a new team might be enough. If it sits with the work, that points to a change.
Nothing in Marlee is built around a cut-off. The analysis looks at what drives you today, and coaching starts from there. Many of the skills you have built, such as communication, judgment and how you handle pressure, travel with you.
A coach can help you name those strengths in terms a new field will recognize. That is often the most useful early step, because it turns a long CV into a clear story.
The aim is to make a smaller, safer bet first. Small experiments such as a short course, a conversation with someone doing the job or a side project tell you far more than a plan on paper. Coach Marlee helps you set them up and look at what they showed you.
Your analysis also helps you read the result. If an experiment drained you, you can see which motivation it ran against, and use that to choose your next one.
It can. The Personal Power program was made to help with imposter syndrome and with confidence in positions of influence, which are exactly the feelings that surface when you are new again. Trust Your Gut Feel helps you stand by your own judgment when others doubt the move.
A human coach is there if you want a person to talk it through with, and they work from the same data as your AI coach.
Yes, and for most people that is the sensible way to do it. Coach Marlee is available whenever you are, so sessions fit around work, and the free plan includes a complete 8-week program. That is long enough to test a direction without putting your income at risk.
You can also compare your profile with up to 3 teammates, which is a useful way to see how your current role fits you before you decide to leave it.
Start with your free Motivational Analysis and see what you actually need from work.
