This idea of change coming naturally after a break is nothing new to BBC journalist turned career coach Rachel Schofield. Following a 20-year career with the BBC, which fell naturally into ‘chapters’ broken up by events such as the arrival of her two children, she decided to become a career coach to help others working though their own work-based challenges.
‘I started my career-change coaching journey with women returning to work after having a baby,’ she explains. ‘It’s a natural point of reflection, but there are other points in people’s lives, too: when they start a new relationship, when they get divorced, when they’re hitting a big birthday. There are moments in our lives when we naturally become quite reflective, asking “Does this still work
