We understand the challenges that career professionals face later in their career. We have spent two decades helping accomplished career professionals navigate the career and retirement transitions that are unique to this time in life.
We work with individuals across diverse occupations – including organizational leaders, lawyers, accountants, teachers, doctors, nurses, engineers, business owners, and entrepreneurs, just to name a few – to navigate transformational career and retirement transitions.
Perceptive offers both instructor-led online courses and individual one-on-one career and retirement transition coaching.
Perceptive Transitions Program
Forward Focused
Our Online Perceptive Transitions Program will stimulate your thinking about this time in your life, help you ask the important questions, and provide you with a powerful framework and tools for navigating career and retirement transitions.
You’ll have the opportunity to intentionally pause, amidst the swirl of everyday life, and take in new information and perspectives to support you in charting an inspired and meaningful course ahead that is your desired future.
Join our thoughtfully designed program exclusively for career professionals later in their career who want to revitalize their career, or possibly change careers, or are planning a post-career transition into a next chapter that goes beyond traditional definitions of retirement.
An Engaging Online Learning Experience
All courses are held on Zoom in a highly interactive online format. Our smaller more intimate group class sizes are conducive to great connections and conversations.
At Perceptive, we have been teaching online for over a decade and have developed innovative ways to create an engaging online learning experience.
Our interactive course format combined with deep knowledge of the subject matter, expert facilitation, and a wonderful group of program participants with shared experiences, come together to create what participants tell us is a stellar experience that exceeds their expectations.
Online Perceptive Transitions Courses and Coaching
Oh, the Places You’ll Go
Revitalizing Career Course
Are you looking to sustain and invigorate your current career or are you considering a career change? Our Revitalizing Career course will help you critically consider whether to stay in your current occupation and what changes this may require, while simultaneously exploring whether a career change might be a better choice and what that transition may look like.
Reinventing Retirement Course
Are you looking to start the next chapter of your life outside of your professional career but struggle with how to do so? We understand. Your career may be a predominant focus and a defining part of your life. However, retirement doesn’t mean retiring from life or even necessarily from work all together. Our Reinventing Retirement course will expand your perspective and help you create a vision for living this next chapter in your life.
One-On-0ne Personal Transition Coaching
Learning with others in one of our online courses may be all you need. Working with a coach in a one-on-one format that is personalized to your situation and needs may also be a great choice. Our One-On-One Transition Coaching can be a tremendous resource to help you achieve profound shifts in your thinking and perspective, explore new possibilities and options, and in the end, create the life you want to live.
Short Courses on Topics of Interest
Continue and expand your learning experience by joining one of our Short Courses any time they are offered. These discussion-based courses were originally developed in response to students in our programs at the University of Denver asking us to take them on a deeper dive into important topics at midlife and beyond. We continue to evolve these courses and add to them.
Perceptive Professional Transitions Framework©
A Powerful, Pioneering and Proven Process
Our proprietary framework has been designed specifically for accomplished career professionals for navigating professional transitions.
Our Framework is powerful in its ability to help people move forward at a time when feeling stuck is a common experience. Our pioneering approach goes beyond conventional thinking to both career and retirement transitions to help you move forward into a satisfying next chapter in your life.
We use the aperture of a camera as a metaphor. Each part of the five-step process works together like an aperture to let light in – expanding your perspective to help you see new and exciting possibilities that propel you forward.
Grounded in 25 years of research, it’s been forged by over two decades of working with hundreds of accomplished mid-to-later career professionals in the workplace, in the classroom in the Focus Forward Program at the University of Denver, and in our online courses.
Snapshot of Past Program Participants:
This Program is Right for You if:
Program Highlights
- Engage with other mid-to-later career professionals like you
- Online, highly interactive, virtual learning format
- Six-week intensive Courses and three-week Short Courses
- Instructor-led by expert faculty and guest presenters
- Presentation, discussion, individual exercises format
- Materials include program eBook, worksheets, and other resources
- Smaller class sizes for a more intimate learning experience
- Optional Individual Coaching with a highly trained and certified coach
Lori is a remarkable teacher and an intuitive facilitator. She brings a warmth and engagement that invites people to be fully present, even when everyone is joining online. She has the wisdom to help guide a conversation to flow and the flexibility to respond to the needs of the group. I have loved being a fellow learner on this journey with Lori.
Patricia Sandler
I am incredibly appreciative of the opportunity to participate in this course with Lori as our adept, warm, intuitive, and knowledgeable leader…More »
Monica Roers
Taking this course was a transformative experience. The material encouraged me to look at my lifetime of professional work in an entirely…More »
Hilary Moreland
I found myself among a wonderfully diverse group of people, all of whom were either beginning or in the midst of life transitions…More »
Nancy Greager
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Transition Stories
Roman: An Unplanned Retirement
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