Next chapter coaching & mentoring

You've built a career.
Time to design your next chapter.

When the familiar path ends, “what next?” can feel surprisingly hard to answer. I help my clients work out what they want this next part of life to look and feel like — and start making it happen.

Ellie Warner at her desk

Thirty years in corporate. Three years working out what came after.

What do you want your next chapter to look and feel like?

Longevity has effectively added decades to our lives — potentially as much as thirty years compared with the generations before us. That is a long time to leave to chance.

Many of my clients have built successful careers and meaningful lives. Now they're considering what comes next: what they want to carry forward, what they're ready to leave behind, and what they'd like to explore.

Wherever you're starting from, there's room to consider what matters to you — and what you want to make possible.

  • Thinking years ahead
  • Facing an unexpected decision
  • Already exploring life beyond a career

I help you make sense of where things stand — and turn those possibilities into a practical plan.

You might be experiencing

  • Redundancy
  • Moving towards rewirement
  • Work being rewritten by AI
  • A role or relationship that no longer fits
  • Children leaving home, or relocation
  • A niggling sense that something feels “off”

These moments can leave you feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure where to begin. Most of my clients can describe how they feel, but aren't yet sure what to do about it.

How I work with you

Turn “what next?” into something you can act on.

Our initial call is a chance to explore where things stand, what you're looking for, and whether we'd work well together.

If you'd find it useful, the optional Next Chapter Snapshot™ offers a guided reflection across seven areas of your life, informed by ikigai. It helps you notice what feels full and what's been deprioritised. It's entirely optional, and you can do it before our conversation, after it, or not at all.

If we decide to work together, we build on what matters most to you.

See the seven principles →
ikigai 生き甲斐

Seven areas of a life

The method

A clear structure for exploring what's next

My five-step D.R.E.A.M. Method™ combines coaching and mentoring, shaped around what you want to change.

  1. DStep 1

    Discover what matters now

    Explore what drives you, what you value, and what a fulfilling next chapter would look like for you.

  2. RStep 2

    Review your options

    Make sense of what you've discovered, explore possible directions, and choose a meaningful goal to work towards.

  3. EStep 3

    Energise your thinking

    Together, we identify what's holding you back and develop practical ways to respond when self-doubt, limiting beliefs or indecision get in the way.

  4. AStep 4

    Activate your next steps

    Turn your goal into practical action. Decide what you'll try, how you'll approach it, and when you'll start. Test, refine, test again.

  5. MStep 5

    Maintain momentum

    Together, we review progress, learn from what you've tried, and adjust your next steps — with support and accountability along the way.

What you take with you

A practical plan. The confidence to move forward.

Your Personal Rewirement Framework 1.0

A practical plan for your next chapter, bringing together your priorities, what you're working towards, and the steps you'll take next. Developed together through our coaching, it gives you something concrete to return to and adapt as your life moves forward.

The “1.0” reflects a plan designed to evolve as you learn what works for you.

  • Greater trust in your own judgementA clearer basis for making decisions about what matters to you.
  • Noticing sooner what's been deprioritisedRecognising when your commitments, routines or priorities no longer fit.
  • Tools you can keep usingPractical ways to reflect, work through obstacles and decide your next steps.
  • More confidence with uncertaintyExperience of taking action without needing the whole future mapped out.
  • A renewed sense of possibilitySeeing options for your next chapter that you may not have considered before.

Where to start

Two ways to begin

Free · a short guided reflection

No cost, no email required

Next Chapter Snapshot™

An ikigai-informed reflection across seven areas of your life, helping you notice what feels full and what's been deprioritised.

  • Your reflections, straight away — what feels full, what's been deprioritised, and where to focus first. Not a test, and there's no score.
  • Choose an optional follow-up Clarity Call

Four or eight weeks · coaching & mentoring

From €599

The D.R.E.A.M. Method™

  • Choose one meaningful goal for your next chapter
  • Work through what's getting in the way
  • Develop a practical plan, with support to put it into action

Four weeks from €599, with the option to extend to the full eight-week programme.

Book a Clarity Call

Talk through what you're looking for and whether we're a good fit.

Explore the eight-week programme →

Ongoing Momentum sessions are available once the programme is complete. Programmes are priced per programme, not per hour — we'll work out which format fits on the call.

Ellie aboard her boat Finding Ikigai at sunrise

Why work with me

I understand the question from both sides.

After 30 years in the corporate world, most recently as a Managing Director and Global Head of Cyber Risk Culture and People Security, I was used to making difficult decisions. Then my role was made redundant, and I had to answer a rather different question: what did I want for myself?

My own next chapter included 15 months aboard a second-hand sailing boat called Finding Ikigai, retraining as a Certified Results Coach with Authentic Education, and eventually making a home in Portugal. It took time: trying things, testing what worked, refining — and occasionally tearing it all up and starting again.

That experience shapes how I work. I understand how unsettling it can feel when a familiar role or identity falls away — and how difficult it can be to choose what comes next, even when you're capable and experienced.

I bring together my corporate background, neuroscience-informed coaching and lived experience to help you understand what matters to you, work through what's getting in the way, and put a practical plan into action.

You bring the knowledge of your life. I bring structure, thoughtful challenge and support as you work out what comes next.

Read my full story →

In their words

What clients take with them

“Empowering, insightful, game-changing. Inspires growth and delivers tangible results.”
AmrithAmrithA role he could do easily, and a growing sense it wasn't right. We found the mismatch — and what was stopping him acting on it. Eight weeks later, he'd accepted a job that fitted.
“The problem wasn't a lack of goals or not knowing who I was. I knew all that. I was at a standstill because I didn't have the optimised vehicle to transfer myself somewhere else that is better and bigger.”
Client HB
“It's like being young again — the sky's the limit!”
Client JNCame to coaching with financial freedom, drive, and a lifetime of hitting goals. And still felt stuck about what came next.
“I loved the energy and fun you brought to the sessions, even when the discussion was quite heavy.”
Client SS
“If you need to navigate life’s challenges with someone who has done it – Contact Ellie.”
Fellow coach

If you're wondering what's next, let's talk.

A focused conversation about where you are now, what you're considering, and how I might help.

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