Build Your Way To A Better Career

Struggling with these questions?

Design Thinking Can Help!

Join a like minded group to build lifelong skills and actionable steps.Design a career that is meaningful and fullfilling.

Location:

Ellie Mental Health in Chelmsford

Dates:

Starting Tues Oct 13th, 6 meetings weekly from 7pm-8:30pm ET

Max Participants:

10

The Methodology

We use the Designing Your Life methodology, developed at Stanford to apply design thinking to career planning. The process treats career clarity as a series of prototypes to test rather than a single "right answer". Instead of trying to reason your way to the perfect job, the approach has you get curious, reframe unhelpful beliefs and run small, low-risk experiments such as conversations or trial projects to learn what actually engages and energizes you.This isn't about building a resume or refining your Linkedin profile or building a five-year plan, but a process for designing a career that's coherent with who you are and that you will love!

FAQ

Email us anytime with questions at [email protected] and we'd be happy to chat with you about options

Please sign up for the info session and share your preference. We are planning online sessions for early 2027

We are sorry but at this stage we cannot accommodate payment plans. Full payment is due when signing up for the event

You can cancel and get fully reimbursed until October 3rd (10 days before the workshop starts)

You will be using a workbook so can do the homework, even if you miss a session. Unfortunately you may miss important brainstorming and feedback sharing from your career design team. We cannot reimburse missed sessions

You will spend 90 mins every week in person with your coach and fellow career designers. Homework will be assigned each week that may take an additional hour or so, depending on how much you want to lean into the design process. It is essential to do the homework to fully benefit from the workshop

At the end of the 6 week workshop, you will have mapped out potential career paths and understand why those path make sense. You you will have identified actionable steps that you can start working on right away to better understand those option. You will be getting more comfortable with the design process and equipped with these skills you will be actively building your fulfilling career. And, you will have developed a supportive community to go with you on this journey!

Designers built this process. It is rooted in well proven methods used to build products we use everyday. The process starts with deep empathy, and a strong bias to discovery through action. As you try things, you learn more and then try and build again until you reach a fulfilling place. One can argue once you start you will probably keep on building because you will find joy in the process. To learn more check this article & video by the founders Bill & Dave

This isn't a job-search workshop. We don't write résumés, optimize LinkedIn profiles, run interview prep, or place anyone. We also don't hand you an assessment that names your ideal career. What you get is a repeatable way to find and test your own answer — and a group working on it alongside you

This workshop is best suited for mid career professionals

More questions? Email us - we'd love to hear from you! [email protected]

Your Facilitator

Kim has spent 25 years in higher education advising students, building programs, and navigating institutional complexity. She understands what it means to be capable, committed, and quietly questioning what comes next.

"My work has been developing for years, and it is built on the reality of 25 years of building community and credibility. I don't hide behind certifications; I stand behind results. My goal is to help you know all of who you are—not just the parts that are easy to explain."

— Kimberly Figueroa

Sign Up For The Workshop

Our group approach creates a space of safe collaboration, building alongside others navigating similar questions. Compared to individual one on one coaching, typically priced at $150-$300/session, we have designed a group workshop that is more accessible, based on a proven methodology and with expert-led guidance.

My Story

Petia Koutev

Petia understands what it takes to make a deliberate career pivot — because she's done it herself, more than once. Over 25 years in the materials industry, she rose from a market development role to senior leadership positions at Saint-Gobain and Luxium Solutions, including Director of Innovation and Director of Marketing. She went on to co-found an AI/ML startup applying machine learning to materials manufacturing, before stepping away to pursue her next chapter. Today, Petia advises manufacturing organizations as an independent consultant and facilitates workshops on tools like Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas. An MIT Sloan MBA, she brings firsthand insight into what it takes to reinvent a career — at any stage.