Focus Forward: Career Transition Coaching
Focus Forward is an integrated program exclusively and thoughtfully designed for working professionals looking to make a later career transition. Join others just like you—later career professionals looking for a new direction—to navigate the next steps and create an action plan.
Why Focus Forward?
As you know in both business and life, it’s not just about asking questions, but asking the right questions. Do I want to shift careers? Do I want to continue in my current career? Do I want to start making strides toward retirement? This program helps you ask the relevant questions and determine the best course of action through new frameworks, tools, and strategies that will help you map out the future you desire.
Curriculum
Prerequisite Course
All Focus Forward participants will begin with the prerequisite course to start stimulating your thinking about later career transition.
Planning for Change Workshop
This workshop is designed around The Hudson Institute’s core model known as Cycle of Renewal™, a powerful learning tool for individuals navigating transition and change. Begin with an exploration of later career transition, then learn a model for navigating change and transition for lifelong renewal.
Concentration
Choose from two additional courses that explore viable options for moving forward with you and your individual needs taking center stage. You can also opt to take both!
Revitalizing Career
Explore whether and how to stay in your current career or transition to a new one. Among other important discoveries, you will identify how your talents, skills, and experiences can be leveraged into new opportunities. Ideal for working career professionals who plan to continue working over the next decade and want to revitalize or change careers.
This course is ideal if you want to shift your focus away from a full-time career to a new chapter that may or may not include “work” of some form. Be introduced to new ways of thinking about retirement, from meaningful new forms of work to community engagement to lifelong learning. Suited for working career professionals who plan to retire in the next one to five years.
Additional Offerings
Expanding Community
This short course is available to all students who have taken Planning for Change. Discuss how relationships change and the potential of having a strong sense of community.
This short course is available to all students who have taken Planning for Change. Examine these three aspects of healthy aging and how they combine to create a foundation for healthy aging.
Meet the Instructor
Lori Zahn, president of Perceptive Leaders LLC, a leadership development consulting company, is an executive coach working with organizational leaders and career professionals. Educated in adult development and learning, and drawing on years of experience working in corporate environments—both as a senior level leader in Fortune 100 companies and as a consultant to senior level organizational leadership—Lori brings her passion for working with professionals to create fulfilling next chapters.
For more information, please contact lzahn@perceptiveleaders.com or call 303-730-3041
Hear from Our Students
Students in Focus Forward value the collaborative community found in the classes, along with the outstanding quality of instruction provided by lead instructor Lori Zahn. Hear what our students have to say…
Enrichment Program
The Enrichment Program connects the intellectually curious adult to DU’s outstanding faculty, facilities, and programming, and Denver’s rich cultural community through non-credit courses. With adult education offered via short evening and weekend classes, you can explore a wide range of subjects: from history and contemporary issues to science, literature, and the arts—without the pressures of exams, grades, or admission requirements.
Contact Information
Program Contact
Lori Zahn
lzahn@perceptiveleaders.com