Career Coaching for Midlife and Beyond
Practical guidance, grounded reflection, and real-world insight for navigating later-life transitions.
Publication: 28 October 2025
About the book
This book brings together decades of experience in helping people find renewed direction in midlife and beyond. It’s written for career professionals and anyone supporting others through work and identity changes later in life.
Blending psychology, research, and practical tools, it explores how to help clients re-engage with their strengths, reshape their working lives, and prepare for what comes next, from career renewal to the transition beyond full-time work.
Free tools and downloads
In my latest book, I share practical tools to help you pause, reflect, and design what comes next. These three are among my favourites, each one encourages thoughtful exploration rather than quick answers.
These companion resources extend the book’s ideas into practice. You can use them for your own reflection or within client sessions.
Skills Mapping: Seeing Transferable Strengths
Look back at your roles and experiences to identify enduring strengths. Notice what you enjoyed most, the skills that energised you, and what others valued in you. This simple exercise often rekindles confidence and highlights patterns that point to future possibilities.
Retirement Mindset Assessment
Explore how you feel about this next chapter. Through a series of reflective statements, you’ll uncover hopes, fears, and assumptions about change. It’s a powerful way to bring hidden beliefs to light and begin reshaping your story about later life.
Portfolio Life Canvas
Design a rhythm that feels balanced and authentic. This visual tool helps you map how work, contribution, learning, and rest can fit together. It’s about creating a life that feels rich, not rushed, one that reflects your evolving values and energy.
Stay connected
If you’d like to keep exploring ideas around purpose, possibility, and later life, you’ll find my regular reflections on Ageing Reimagined on Substack.
There you can read essays, join discussions, and access special tools and subscriber-only downloads.
Other books by Dr. Denise Taylor
Explore the wider collection of my writing and research:
Rethinking Retirement for Positive Ageing
A fresh look at how we find meaning and vitality beyond full-time work.
Find Work at 50+
Practical strategies for confident job seeking and career change later in life.
ThriveSpan
March 2026
Walking gently into what matters now.
Olderhood Unfolding
Autumn 2026
Reflective essays on identity, freedom, and wisdom in later life.
