How Do I Transition Out of My Current Career?

Coaching Real Leaders

Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Executive, Business/careers, Leadership, Careers, Business/management, Sessions, Hbr, Coaching, Review, Society & Culture, C-suite, Leaders, Harvard, Business, Management

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

He’s had a successful career in the military and is deeply invested in his professional growth. As his transition out of the military approaches, he wants to figure out what’s next for him professionally. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches him through how to best prepare for the next phase of his career.

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0:00.0	HBR Presents
0:03.0	Hi, it's Muriel.
0:08.5	There's a brief mention of suicide near the beginning of this episode.
0:13.0	If you or anyone you know is having thoughts of suicide,
0:16.6	please call the 24-hour national suicide lifeline.
0:20.1	The number in the U.S. is 1-800-273-8255.
0:32.8	I'm Yario Wilkins, and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR Presents Network.
0:38.5	I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the road.
0:44.0	My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them
0:49.3	so that hopefully they can lead with a little more ease.
0:53.4	I typically work with clients over the course of several months,
0:56.7	but on this show, we have a one-time coaching meeting
0:59.6	focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing.
1:07.7	Today's guest is someone will call Mick
1:10.1	to protect his confidentiality.
1:12.6	He's had a substantial career in the military working in special operations and having
1:17.1	deployed a number of times.
1:19.5	He's also pretty clear about what fuels his purpose.
1:22.7	Well, I had a pretty unstable childhood and a lot of that came with the challenges of, you know, bullying.
1:30.8	You know, I saw some pretty violent acts towards people that I cared about pretty early on.
1:34.9	And I think I just kind of developed this, you know, desire to protect people and this desire to kind of foresee other people's needs and then to try to meet them there.
1:43.3	And it's it's giving back, right?
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