Create positive changes in your life and career as a humanitarian, expatriate or accompanying spouse.

Any professional transition raises important questions and requires readjustment. This is especially true for humanitarians, expatriates and accompanying spouses! Why is this so?

Firstly, because they are constantly faced with new changes and a lot of uncertainty.

And secondly, because their lifestyle means that a professional change generally has a major impact on other areas of their lives: the personal, couple and family spheres, as well as social life, the physical environment and financial aspects. The reverse is also possible: for example, health, private, relationship or family problems can have a major impact on the professional sphere and lead to the termination of an expatriation contract.

This is why a holistic approach, which includes all areas of life, is essential for successful professional transitions in one's life as a humanitarian, expatriate or accompanying spouse. What's more, it is essential that the support provided also considers the particular challenges associated with international mobility or the humanitarian sector.

In this respect, a skills assessment is generally not enough. It's important to go further, by looking at all areas of life and all the factors directly linked to these career paths and profiles, which are often considered atypical.

It’s to meet these needs that I have developed the TRANSITIONS Method, which adapts to the specific challenges of each individual.

To discover these programs, click below:

• Coaching for humanitarian workers 
• Coaching for expatriates
• Coaching for accompanying spouses

A professional transition is the passage from one situation to another in one's career. This professional transition can take several forms.

A change in your current job:

• Vertical career progression: moving up the career ladder, taking up a position with greater responsibility, developing management, leadership and communication skills.
• Horizontal career development: cross-functional professional development, when there is a strong interest in another department or sector within the same organization or company.
• Job crafting: shaping your current job so that it becomes a source of fulfilment, without changing position. The aim is to find solutions that work best for the employee.

A change to another job:

• Changing sector of activity without changing job: continuing to do the same job, but in a very different sector. For example, an HR position in the humanitarian sector, then in the private sector.
• A change of profession without leaving your sector of activity: for example, moving from primary education to adult education.
• A career change: e.g. changing job and sector, considering a career change project.
• A change in professional status: going from employee to self-employed or vice versa.
• Choosing to do several jobs - job slasher: the art of voluntarily combining several jobs at the same time. For example, self-employed therapist and occasional humanitarian missions or part-time job and consultant the rest of the time.

If you stop working or go back to work:

• Retirement: this is a huge step that needs to be prepared for.
• Accompanying spouse status: leaving your job to become an accompanying spouse or returning to work after years as an expatriate spouse are complex transitions.
• Parental leave: stopping work to look after your children or returning to work after parental leave.
• Post-burnout career guidance: after stopping work because of burnout. It is then necessary to prepare for returning to work, either in the same job or in a new one.

Career transition can be triggered for a variety of reasons or in a variety of ways:

• The desire for change or professional development.
• The need for a better life balance.
• The need to clarify your professional needs and desires.
• A phase of professional uncertainty and major change,
• The desire to go back to school or to benefit from training or certification.
• A desire to develop both personal and professional skills.
• A loss of motivation or meaning at work.
• Being laid off.
• The start or end of an assignment, international mobility or contract.
• Burnout.
• Boredom in your current job.
• Illness or a security incident.
• Approaching retirement.
• A mid-life transition full of questions.