CAREER TRANSITION COACHING
It’s time to get the corporate out of your head
The Career Detox Intensive is a 7-week one-to-one coaching program specifically designed for experienced professionals ready to leave toxic corporate thinking behind and remix their talent into a rewarding vision for what’s next.
Looking ahead through a rearview mirror?
Whether you left corporate by choice, were caught in a reduction, or are still considering your exit, corporate may continue influencing what you believe is realistic, responsible, or available to you.
Maybe the moment the HR rep crashed the standing 1:1 with your manager caught you off guard.
Maybe you half expected it with all the budget cut chatter and names suddenly vanishing from Slack.
Absorbing the post-exit shock
However it went down, when you’ve spent years going all-in for your team and all-out with your effort, it’s a shock to your system when you’re suddenly just…OUT.
And even though they said…and you keep telling yourself…it was an economic decision, logic can’t heal emotions.
So, you tell yourself to shake it off and saddle up. With your skills and experience this next chapter is an open road of possibility!
Spinning your tires in self-doubt
But in reality, it’s feeling like a gridlock of half-baked ideas on top of a sink hole of self-doubt. Because the idea that seems to play on a constant loop…the one you keep pushing to the back of your mind…sounds a little something like:
What could I have done better?
What could I have done differently?
How corporate toxins cloud the view
But here’s what you need to know…
High-achievers have been conditioned through years in corporate to meet and exceed the expectations of others. Survival mode is the operating system of corporate. It gets you hooked on constant PROVING yourself and distorts your view with toxic thinking.
But the Truth is your value…your worth…it’s not up for debate.
If you want to stop stewing in the should’ves and could’ves, you need to:
- Disconnect from the proving pressure
- Audit the assumptions, unwritten rules, and flawed predictions creating mental gridlock
- Turn what matters to you into a clear direction for what’s next
That’s exactly what the Career Detox is designed to help high-achieving professionals do.
From a head full of possibilities to a concrete career vision
The Career Detox helps you clear away the corporate toxins that can distort your thinking—the reflexes, the borrowed measures of worth, the noise—so you can clearly see the options ahead that don’t require you to roll back to the starting line.
Every conversation, question, and resource is shaped around what emerges for you. You won’t be taken through a generic career-planning formula or handed a workbook full of exercises that have nothing to do with your situation. In fact, the Career Detox might be the only career transition program that’s 100% Venn diagram-free.
Clear out the toxic effects of corporate pressure and the proving patterns it reinforces.
Connect your ideas, interests, and possibilities into a full and vibrant vision of what you want next.
Translate that vision into concrete choices and practical steps you can put into action.
Your private, seven-week thinking retreat
Career Detox Intensive
One 90-minute Kickoff Strategy Session
A deep dive session to explore your situation and pinpoint the patterns influencing how you respond to pressure and approach your next move.
Six 60-minute 1:1 coaching sessions
Private weekly virtual sessions that give you the space to think and support to keep moving.
Energy Leadership Index® (ELI) assessment
Ranked by Forbes as one of the top assessments every executive should take, the ELI takes something abstract—the way you experience the world—and turns it into a tangible metric.
Curated tools and resources
Practical materials tailored to your needs.
A collaborative partnership focused on you
Coaching, marketing, and business strategy expertise applied to your next move.
Investment: $3,250 USD
Is the Career Detox Intensive a fit for you?
- Recently out of corporate — by choice or by circumstance.
- Weighing another role, consulting, business ownership, or some combination.
- Already pursuing independent work and noticing corporate expectations influencing how you approach it.
You bring the experience. Together, we’ll work develop a career direction that reflects what you want to do with it.
Meet Your Coach
Joan Gaffney
Creator of the Career Detox
Corporate trains you to measure your worth by your workload, chase approval like it’s currency, and believe that if you work harder, push through, and prove yourself, you’ll eventually arrive.
I know that pressure firsthand. After more than 25 years in corporate marketing, I understand both how corporate works and how its expectations can continue to influence your decisions after you leave.
As a certified professional coach with a background in marketing and business strategy, I help you examine those influences and connect the dots between your experience, what you’ve been sensing, and the possibilities you’re considering. Together, we’ll crystalize those connections into a professional vision you can put into practice.
3 Simple Steps to Get Started
Schedule a Call
If it looks like there’s a potential fit, I’ll invite you to book a private Chemistry Call.
Meet for a Chemistry Call
We’ll talk about your situation, whether Career Detox is right for you, and whether we’d work well together. No pressure. No obligation. Pinky promise.
FAQs
No. You may have several directions in mind, a few ideas you haven’t fully explored, or an interest you don’t yet know how to put into words. Those are all useful starting points. Developing into a direction you can act on is part of what we can work on.
No. It’s also for professionals who have chosen to leave, are considering another role, or are already pursuing independent work.
What matters is that you want support developing what comes next free of the stress that comes with trying to justify your thinking to someone else or feeling like you have to prove your value.
No. Your next direction could involve employment, consulting, business ownership, or a combination. The program supports you in exploring and developing the direction you want to pursue.
Yes. This is a one-to-one coaching program where you work directly with Joan.
The program has a purposeful flow, with room for your priorities and what emerges along the way.
Your sessions and resources are tailored to your situation. We may spend more time on one area, revisit something as your thinking develops, or explore an unexpected possibility.
Our work includes coaching, exploration, and practical planning. Coaching helps you examine your thinking, explore possibilities and make your own decision. Where useful, I’ll share my experience in marketing, leadership, and business strategy to help you develop and evaluate your ideas.
We’ll discuss your situation, what you want help with, and how I work. You can ask questions, and we’ll consider whether Career Detox is a good fit and if we think we’ll work well together.
Resume writing is a specialized skill, so I recommend working with a trained, professional resume writer who approaches the work as a professional consultant.
Before you make that investment, it helps to know what you’re aiming for and how you want your experience to be understood. That’s work we can do together, giving your resume writer a stronger strategic starting point to work from.
Not in the traditional sense of rehearsing answers or running through mock interviews.
My methodology is built to address the proving patterns that can turn an interview into an oral exam—searching for the “right” response, reading too much into every reaction, and trying to prove you belong in the room.
Clients often tell me they feel noticeably more polished and poised. They can listen closely, ask thoughtful questions, and respond to the conversation that’s actually happening as a professional peer.
I’ve seen that shift carry into all kinds of high-stakes conversations. Business coaching clients have brought it to discovery consults that opened the door to larger opportunities. Leadership clients have brought it into interviews and moved into more senior roles with substantially higher compensation.
The Intensive contains the foundational portion of Career Detox: understanding the patterns influencing you, reducing their effect, identifying what you want your professional life to support, and developing an initial direction and roadmap.
The full Career Detox program provides more time for application, refinement, professional positioning, communication, and support as you pursue the direction you have chosen.
Ready for What's Next?
Complete a short application. If it’s a fit, you’ll book a 30-minute Chemistry Call — one-to-one, no pressure, to see where you are and whether we’ll work well together.
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