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THE CAREER TRANSFORMATION Co-author
Your career isn't meaningless.
Transformation isn't a gamble!
Author your unique career story.
Find the red thread that holds it all together.
Build a personal career transformation assistant.
Living through a career crisis?
This may sound familiar:
Symptoms observed in 3600+ career transformations guided:
Symptom #1
You checked all the right boxes, hit all the right goals, but it feels like all of that adds
up to nothing
The Diagnosis:
Absence of Career Meaning
Symptom #2
Your career feels squiggly, non-linear, like an amalgamation of random actions. Future moves feel ungrounded, not assured.
The Diagnosis:
Missing Coherence
Symptom #3
You no longer see yourself in your current professional identity. You want change, it feels risky, the path feels unclear.
The Diagnosis:
Identity Fracture + Change Map missing
Based on methods taught at elite b-schools including:
no 'dream jobs' or 'personal brands' here.
HERE'S my PROMISE:
Before you become the protagonist of your own story.
You must first be the author.
No job in 90 days. No salary bump.
No guarantee but this one:
You leave a month from now as someone who shapes their career, not someone whose career is shaped by externalities.
The research is unequivocal on one thing. I've seen it across 3600+ career identity transformations, and my own:
A coherent story gives you agency
What you do with it is up to you.
what nobody has told you, yet:
Career Meaning & Identity Transformation are skills you can learn
And unlike coaching or advice, that means one thing:
It stays with you forever.
"It gave us tangible knowledge to use in our lives.
I intend on returning to these exercises every few years"-- Mid-Career Changer, Global Top 10 MBA
Welcome to
Career Authoring
The process of articulating the coherent theme running through your career, so as to intentionally direct where it goes next, and build a career truly your own. Proven benefits:
- Long-term meaning making
- Stabilisation of professional Identity
- Augmented agency and self-direction
- Growth in resilience & emotional regulation
- Increased likelihood of market validation in change
"Total game-changer! It was like a lightbulb revealing how close we are to tapping into our full potential. It’s amazing how we can transfer these insights into real-world skills"
-- Mid-Career Changer, Global Top 10 MBA
introducing:
The Career Transformation
Co-Author Build
One month. Four weeks of guided authoring. Find your career thread and leave with:
A permanent AI assistant that knows your story and guides your transformation.
The red thread of your career: A coherent theme rooted in your unique competencies, core values & life goals.
That theme, translated into market facing assets: How to tell your story across contexts, decision making frameworks & path planning.
Your career transformation uniquely mapped out: Using research backed methods, over your chosen time frame.
A permanent Claude + Notion Assistant agent: That breaks down your transformation plan into weekly goals & manages your progress.
Recommended tech stack:
Claude Pro (Free works, but has limits, see last FAQ) + Notion (Free) + Fathom AI (Free)
How the month works:
4 weeks of Guided Authoring + Weekly AI Assisted Distillation + All stacks up!
Week 00: Pre-Work
Status Quo: where you are now
You get ready with guided authoring prompts to define status quo: where you are, what success looks like at the end, and few other questions. You take a five-minute, research-backed Career Orientation assessment to measure your long-term progress.
You'll receive the materials once you sign-up.
Estimated Time: 20-30 minutes
Week 01: Monday Kick Off + You Write + Group Friday Check Point
Strength Based Authoring: what you bring to environments
You write four stories from your working life using provided prompts from depth psychology and a writing guide to help you. Your trained AI articulates your natural, demonstrated competencies hidden in your blind spot, in non-jargon-buzzwordy language.
Estimated Time: Days 1 - 4, 20-25 minutes / day.
On Friday's AI Check-Point you get:
- Report: Your natural strengths in plain human language
- Possible future directions it opens and how you serve them
- How to communicate it across contexts, online and IRL
- Rewritten CV to bring this forward stronger
Week 02: You Write + Group Friday Check Point
Values Based Authoring: what environments you thrive in
You start by telling the story of your life so far (Done the AUTOBIO playbook? Save a step!) Followed by three shorter writing exercises. The AI reflects the pattern in what matters to you, what drives your choices, well-being and flourishing.
Estimated Time: Day 1: 50-60 minutes. Days 2-4, 30 minutes / day.
On Friday's AI Check-Point you get:
- Report: 3-5 core values, in your own language. AKA: internal guide
- Decision making spectrum: pursue, avoid, gray area. AKA: external signposts
- Refinement of possible selves to explore for your transition. This builds on Week 1
Week 03: You Write + Group Friday Check Point
Vision Based Authoring: what you're moving toward in life
You write 4 authoring exercises from life design, depth psychology, business strategy & a wildcard. Each explores aspects of what you’re moving toward. In life, not just work. The AI stacks all three weeks into a set of relevant, applicable future moves.
Estimated Time: Days 1 - 4, 30-40 minutes / day.
On Friday's AI Check-Point you get:
- Report: 10 year vision. 5 year milestone. 3 paths to move you closer.
- Final Possible Selves -- stacked on strengths, values & goals
- Your full career red thread synthesised from full stack
Week 04: Live Agent Build on 2 Group Calls + Challenge Closure
Build Personal Career Identity Transformation Plan + Assistant
On a live call, your custom agent takes everything you've authored, and we build a project that integrates Claude Pro + Notion and it generates you a personal career identity transformation plan over your chosen time-frame. It includes:
- Possible selves you’re exploring: Directions to explore why these may work for you: what you bring to each direction and why it fits your values and life goals
- Experiments to run: which experiments to run to refine the direction, designing each experiment, central hypothesis & validating said hypothesis
- Conversations that matter: who to reach out to, what to aim for in those conversations, how to frame your story, what response to look for, foot-in-the-door angle for each.
- Weekly transformation management system: Your full transformation plan, broken down into weekly tasks and goals. So you can just check-in every Monday!
Your Future Agent's Capabilities:
Knows your career story. Trained on research-backed methods. Guides your moves. Learns with you. And:
Protocols #1
Weekly transformation brief
Breaks your full career identity transformation plan into weekly tasks.
Just say: It's Monday, let's go!
Protocols #2
Logs progress & weekly closure
Logs in what you do every week, so it's self-learning and stays updated.
Just say: It's Friday, let's close the week.
Protocols #3
Real human commitment
Requires you to commit your plan with a real human, and reminds you to check-in in areas it cannot help you.
Skills #1
Non-Chameleon CV Customise
Changes your cv without messing with the core story, so you don’t feel like a chameleon.
Skills #2
Interview Story Portfolio
Helps you pick which stories you should prep for interviews, which to lead with and how to structure each of them.
Skills #3
Networking Playbook
Preps you for the conversations with clear goals, outcomes and meeting structure for better follow-ups.
One-on-One Coaching
Coaching processes you.
Authoring hands you a process.
Personal Branding
Branding is about image.
Authoring is about identity.
Career Storytelling
Storytelling is a communication skill.
Narrative authoring is a life skill.
Designed & Delivered by
Vishal Thacker
Careers Professor at World leading business schools:
LBS, IMD, HEC Paris, Esade, IESE, SDA Bocconi, ESMT Berlin
Enabled 3600+ Self-Authored Careers since 2018
Rating: 4.6 / 5 Stars, 1000+ participants surveyed
Creator: Career Story Craft™
"Vishal is really good at what he does.
Helped me break through my narrative blocks."
-- Mid-Career Changer, Global Top 10 MBA
Your Investment:
Education & Corporate:
€22,000
Comparable
1-on-1 Coaching:
€3,500
The Co-Author Build:
€648
Limited to: 20 Seats
Sign-Ups Close:
30th October
Block your calendar
Challenge Begins:
Kick-Off:
2nd November
Time TBD per participant locations
Challenge Closes:
Closure:
27th November
Time TBD per participant locations
The Fine Print
Risk agreement:
If you quit the Co-Author Build before Check Point 1, you get 0% refunds.
If you quit the Co-Author Build between Check Points 1 & 3, you get 50% of your investment back.
If you quit after that, no refunds. You've already got the red thread of your career.
Find your red thread.
Author your own story.
FAQs:
Do I need to be in the middle of changing careers right now?
No. You can do this at any stage of professional identity transformation — even if its something you’re considering but not sure how to navigate it.
How much time does it actually take?
Depends on your disposition to writing & getting the story out of you. On average, roughly 20–30 minutes of writing a day, four days a week, for three weeks. Week 4 is live calls, no writing. Works up to about two hours a week.
Do I need to be good with AI or Notion?
No. If you can use a browser you can do this. Claude can manage your Notion for you. Week 4 is a guided live build, we do it together, step by step. You’ll be fine!
Is this storytelling?
No. You'll tell stories, but the goal isn’t to tell better stories. Stories are to narratives what jigsaw pieces are to the picture on the box — what the pieces point to is meaning & identity. Our goal is to tell many stories to define what they, and your career, point to.
Why not personal branding?
Many many reasons! Branding is about image, career crisis is about identity. You don’t experience your life as a ‘brand’ model. You experience it as a story — beginnings, middles, chapters of change. Goals, actions, challenges, lessons. Narrative authoring integrates more easily with how you see yourself, so the changes show up almost immediately. Also, brands are for corporations, narratives are for humans. :)
Is this a motivational session?
No. It’s sense-making and skill-building. People do get inspired by what they see in their own stories. That’s an interesting side effect.
Am I going to be told who I am by an AI?
No! You’re gonna study your own story. The AI just reflects your own words back by taking the cognitive load: finds patterns, articulates crucial pieces at the altitude it's trained at. It is a mirror with a memory, not a therapist.
What happens to what I write? Is it private?
Everything you write lives in your personal Notion, in your own workspace. That’s where it stays. The assistant you build accesses it in your Notion, it isn’t uploaded to a course platform, Vishal doesn’t see it, neither does the cohort — unless you choose to share it. You own the record of your own life, as only you can.
What if I fall behind?
The writing is yours and the materials stay with you. The weekly calls are where the cohort syncs, but the work is asynchronous by design. This is low-touch. Catch yourself up!
On whom is the final onus for successful outcomes?
You. The more willingness and participation you bring to this, the more you get out of it. If you’re not willing to write the essays and document your experience, this won’t help you. Vishal facilitates, the AI distills. The one who does the work, is you.
Do I need prior knowledge of narrative or story?
Everything you need is already inside you. Just bring yourself.
Does this work across cultures and backgrounds?
Yes. This is based on methods delivered in classrooms at world-leading business schools filled with mid-career changers from all over the world. We use stories as maps, and that looks the same everywhere. They always have.
What happens after the month?
You keep the assistant, the outputs and the method. Your cohort sets up its own check-in rhythm. Vishal joins the group calls one month later to see how it’s going.
Can I do this on Claude's free plan?
Technically, yes. Projects are available in the free version. Realistically, free plans cap daily messages and long sessions, which likely stalls your Week 4 Agent Build session. Free-plan conversations may also be used for model training, and if privacy is a concern for you then you should know: on Claude Pro you can switch that off.
