Career Coaching
Career Coaching
I help people through career coaching (as well as financial coaching).
Here’s how it works.
Whether your goal is getting a payrise, landing a promotion or achieving a career change, everyone needs to play their hand as well as they can.
Why wouldn’t you get all the help you can?
I provide an independent perspective and sounding board to discuss career challenges and help you negotiate the best deal that you can get from current and / or prospective employers.
I have a degree in economics, I’m a qualified chartered accountant and I worked in corporate finance in the City over 20 years. This included a lot of mergers & acquisitions work where I worked as a professional negotiator. Over a 20 year corporate finance career, I reached partner / MD level and ultimately financial independence (where work became optional).
How to escape a job you don’t like
A lot of people pursuing FIRE (financial independence, retire early) have more of a job problem or career problem than they do a money problem.
At the risk of stating the obvious, if the goal is to escape a job you hate, then changing jobs (or changing career) is a lot quicker than getting to financial freedom.
Having a freedom fund gives you the runway to change career. The more runway you have, the safer you are.
Money gives you the ability to take risks in your career. This gives you choices: either the chance to earn more (e.g. get more equity in a startup or tech company) or to work for yourself. More risk, more potential reward.
On the flipside, having a “redundancy fund” is essential in the modern world where AI and the robots means that there are fewer and fewer safe jobs anymore.
It’s good to talk
Yes, I’m biased but it’s very valuable to have career mentors and people you can talk to about your challenges. It’s invaluable to have someone on your team who can give you advice when you are in important negotiations.
Yes, it’s possible for some people to do it on their own. You can learn from your own expensive mistakes (as I did). But it generally works out cheaper to get help and learn from other people’s mistakes.
Price is what you pay and value is what you get and the value should be >10x the price.
How you benefit
You get to pick the brain of someone that has already faced the issues that you are facing. You get to ask questions and bounce ideas off someone independent and experienced. You get total confidentiality.
There are lots of different areas where I can help. We focus on what is most important to you but here are some of the things that I have helped people with:
negotiating a major payrise
moving job
overcoming imposter syndrome
achieving a significant promotion
becoming an equity partner at a professional services firm (law, accounting, consulting etc)
career change
transitioning to freelancing / self-employment / consulting
The coaching is bespoke in the sense that everyone’s situation is unique and heavily influenced by your unique set of values and circumstances.
And the coaching is holistic in the sense that career overlaps with other factors such as family relationships, personal finances career, health and wellness.
Everyone is different and so different people have different areas that they want to focus on. The coaching sessions work best when you have identified beforehand what areas you would like help with.
Why have career coaching?
For the same reasons that all top sports people and business executives have coaching.
Reading books and blogs is great, but its not enough on its own: we learn best when we combine reading with a mixture of Q&A, personal interaction, accountability, discussion, encouragement and practical guidance.
Talking issues through with someone that has been through them before is hugely beneficial. Everyone has blind spots and you don’t know what you don’t know.
In other words, you don’t know what you don’t know and you don’t know your own blindspots. That is just as true for career issues as it is for relationship or personal finance or health challenges.
Career Coaching plus Escape Manual subscription
This is a monthly subscription. There is an initial one-time payment of £250 followed by a recurring cost of £75 per month.
This includes unlimited one to one coaching time over Zoom plus access to all of the articles, spreadsheets and charts on The Escape Manual.
I do most sessions over Zoom / Teams / Gmeet but I’m happy to meet for the first session face to face in Central London. Or you are always welcome to come meet me in Farnham, Surrey.
Your monthly subscription will continue (at the same price) until cancelled.
You can pay securely by Paypal here:
…or you can pay securely by debit or credit card (processed via Stripe here).
Unlimited time for ongoing clients
The pricing structure is designed to encourage and reward recurring, long term relationships with clients.
I give ongoing clients as much coaching time as they reasonably need. I don’t keep timesheets and I have never denied extra time to any ongoing client who is subscribed to this package…so in reality my recurring clients get all the Zoom time that they need. Plus unlimited Whatsapp / email access. So you get maximum value from the subscription.
A holistic approach
No two clients are exactly the same. And some clients want to achieve changes that might overlap with their personal finances, health or relationships.
My career coaching clients tend to be high-performers (board level and partner-level) and / or people who want to achieve their full potential.
I have a holistic approach and so – as well as helping you get richer – I am interested in health, happiness, wellness and the science of high performance.
Introductory calls
If you would like to speak before signing up, you can choose a convenient time for a free introductory video call on Gmeet here.
If you would like this free intro call, please email me with an agenda of what you would like to cover.
Once you have emailed me some questions / an agenda, please choose a calendar slot that works for you here.
If you have any questions, please email me on barney.whiter@gmail.com
Barney Whiter
