Specialised Coaching for Careers, Leadership, and Teams

Transition Coaching: Unlocking Potential Through Change

At Transition Expertise, we provide 1-to-1 sessions led by highly qualified psychologists to support individuals navigating challenging transitions. Additionally, we offer specialised programmes designed for experienced coaches aiming to enhance their coaching skills and advance their professional growth.

What is Transition Coaching?

Career transitions are significant milestones that shape success or failure, deliver fulfilment or disappointment, and lead to progression or stagnation. Transition Coaching ensures that high-potential individuals—those who will lead and guide an organisation through growth and change—don’t just survive during transitions: they truly thrive.

Transition Expertise is not the same as traditional expertise. Similarly, Transition Coaching requires different knowledge and skills than traditional coaching. As Transition Coaches, we have made it our priority to learn from our research and utilise our unique understanding to guide people through life and career transitions.

Key Transition Coaching Situations

Drawing from our experience coaching Olympic athletes, elite musicians, and organizational leaders, we understand what it takes to perform at the highest level in demanding environments. HOWEVER, we distinguish between what is required to perform at these elite levels and what is required to make a successful transition. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME and our extensive research enables us to know and coach the difference. 

We have identified the most common situations where our transition coaching makes a difference: Axial Transitions and Crucible Transitions 

Axial Transitions

which you initiate in search of your aspirations and achieve your potential.

  • Level shifts: Organisations will regularly move their best performers: moving to a more senior role with broader range of responsibilities, or shifting laterally to a new functional area to build organisation wide experience, or transitioning inward to strategic or outward to an operational responsibilities. Key performers need to use generative intelligence to transfer knowledge and apply contextual intelligence to understand their new working environment.

  • Onboarding: Bringing someone from outside an organization into a new role can be one of the most challenging transitions. In addition to meeting job requirements, new employees must adapt to the organization’s culture, values, and language. Contextual intelligence is key to success in this transition, as it requires cognitive flexibility and the ability to adjust to new environments and expectations.

Crucible Transitions

in which you are confronted with challenges that test your deepest commitment to yourself in the face of the unknown.

  • Transition Recovery Coaching: Sometimes individuals, despite their potential, falter after a promotion or job change. In these cases, coaching can help them optimize their existing skills, develop the ones required to make the transition, and gain a deeper understanding of their new environment. Resilience and personal robustness combined with intrapersonal intelligence enable individuals to respond to challenges in a dynamically and adaptively.

  • Coaching for Purpose and Meaning: Individuals today are seeking careers with greater purpose and meaning. Our coaching helps clients tap into intrinsic motivation by seeking autonomy, enhancing competency, and building meaningful relationships with colleagues and peers.

Why Choose Transition Coaching?

Retains high performers

by keeping top talent engaged and growing.

Minimises failure

by providing structured support during uncertain times.

Smooths transitions

into new roles, ensuring success and confidence.

Prepares executives for leadership roles

while maintaining performance and momentum.

Navigates organisational change

effectively, enabling individuals to thrive.

Our Coaching Process

Typically, coaching sessions are booked in blocks of 6 or 8. We invite you to enquire about the best process to follow to meet your coaching needs.

Transition Expertise Coaching 

  • A preliminary understanding of the context for change and agreement of objects [1 block].

  • An in-depth interview to gather data for the TEP* (Transition Expertise Profile) [1 block].

  • Feedback on the outcomes of the TEP* and development objectives [1 block].

  • Deepening key developmental processes, goals, and actions to be implemented [3 blocks]. 

Meta Coaching

  • Identifying the axial and crucible elements of your situation, clarify the search for meaning and purpose [1 block].

  • Exploring purpose meaning in your life and how to bring it to the centre of your work [4 blocks].

  • Grounding outcomes [1 block].

Integral Coaching

  • Preliminary agreement of objects, establishing purpose/intention/meaning [1 block].

  • An in-depth interview to gather data for the TEP* (Transition Expertise Profile) [1 block].

  • Feedback on the outcomes of the TEP* [1 block].

  • Exploring how to bring purpose and meaning into your transition [4 blocks].

  • Final grounding session constructed on the basis of the TEP outcome and the Purpose/Search interview [1 block].

* Learn more about the TEP and its significance in our coaching approach.

1-to-1 Transition Coaching

We offer personalised 1-to-1 coaching sessions led by our team of highly qualified psychologists. Our services are designed to support individuals, including musicians, professional athletes, and those seeking life coaching, who are navigating challenging transitions. Whether you're facing a career change, personal development hurdles, or other life shifts, our bespoke approach ensures you receive the guidance and support you need.

Coaching Programmes for Coaches

Expert Coach Training

We offer coaching programmes for experienced, professional coaches who want to enhance their experience as a coach.

Our programs help create an organisational culture where self-coaching and peer coaching are the norms, fostering resilience and adaptability.

Elevating Coaching Expertise

Given the proliferation of individuals offering coaching services and the multitude of available training programs, why attend a coach training program offered by Transition Expertise?

Because we don’t offer standard coaching programs. While we recognise the realities at play in the modern work environment, our programs go beyond goal setting or short-term delivery. They help coaches engage professionally and ethically with the deeper forces and life issues that clients bring to the workplace.

Our programs are designed for experienced coaches and leaders who wish to guide and support others more effectively, leading them toward greater purpose, intention, and meaning in their lives.

Expert Coach Training

Transition Expertise Coaching Coaching for Change

Based on our extensive knowledge and experience coaching individuals in transition, we offer a two-module program to help coaches develop Transition Intelligence and Transition Personality in their clients.

Module 1: Transition Intelligence

  • Building Cognitive Flexibility to interrupt outdated patterns, undo unconscious biases, and engage with new challenges openly.

  • Using Generative Intelligence through inference, analogy, and metaphor to apply past experiences to new situations.

  • Understanding Personal Intelligences through leveraging both interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence during transitions.

  • Developing Contextual Intelligence to understand and navigate new work environments and cultures.

Module 2: Transition Personality

  • Enhancing Personal Resilience to manage setbacks and challenges.

  • Strengthening Self-Efficacy through feedback, role modelling, and real-life experiences.

  • Aligning Motivation to ensure both intrinsic and extrinsic factors drive success.

  • Agency to ensure that choices and behaviours are both agentic and authentic.

Expert Coach Training

Meta coaching
Coaching for Purpose and Intention

Developed by Hetty Einzig, this coaching approach moves beyond traditional process and technical training to address the increasingly urgent questions:

  • Why am I working?

  • What do I want to achieve in my work?

  • How do I bring all of myself into my work?

  • How do I go beyond my personality in my search for meaning and purpose in life?

The Transpersonal Leadership Coaching Program (TLCP) is a three-module program accredited by the Association of Coaching.

Module 1:
Introduction to the Transpersonal

  • Introducing Transpersonal Leadership Coaching, its foundations, core models, and approaches.

  • Adding a transpersonal perspective to your coaching and the core techniques to use with your clients.

  • Engaging with the increasingly prevalent questions: Who am I, and what is my purpose?

  • Working with identity, subpersonalities, and self-connection.

Module 2:
Mapping the Client’s Ecosystem

  • Ecosystem mapping and the contextual intelligence required to understand and work with your environment.

  • Purposeful motivation and intention, and their role in axial moments in a client’s life.

  • Working creatively with challenges and crises.

  • Using imagery and symbols in transformative coaching practices.

Module 3:
Navigating Change

  • Navigating transitions in work and life, moving beyond reaction with resilience.

  • Evolving identities while evoking purpose and meaning as a compass for change.

  • Engaging in somatic practices to move from thinking to embodying.

  • Bringing values and ethics alive in coaching sessions.

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