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at a career crossroads and unsure of your next step ..........
suffering job burnout and its imact on your health and happiness.....
feeling stuck in a soul-sucking job that isn’t you......
lacking fulfilment in your career and work-life.....
wanting a career change but need some direction and guidance to make the transition from point 'A' to point 'B'....
ready to make a bold career move without compromising your financial security of lifestyle....

Grace + Solonia here and, believe it or not, we’ve been in your shoes. We both have generous resumes with ample amounts of experience and could’ve been on the one-way street to corporate boredom. BUT we wanted passion + purpose AND we believe you do too. So, if you can handle two ladies who will be brutally honest with you about this career change adventure and help you create your dream work/life in the process… then welcome to this course.

You feel undervalued, under-challenged or uninspired in your current role.
You’ve recently left a job and the pressure is ON to figure out your next step.
You’re on the fence: Am I doing what is right for me, or should I change direction?
You feel ‘stuck’ in the wrong career and uncertain about your alternative career options .
You’re tired of procrastinating, over thinking, daydreaming and imagining What if?
You're overwhelmed by career possibilities and worry you'll make a bad choice.

You long to escape corporate convention and the pigeonhole of your narrowly defined career to do something completely different.
You have multiple interests and talents and struggle to apply them to your career.
You fear the risks involved with a career change / transition and lack the tools, guidance and support to start taking action.
You’re ready to abandon everything you’ve been taught about making sound career decisions and follow a first-act-then-think process of repurposing your career.

We PROMISE that when you wrap up this self-paced course, you will not only have the momentum you need to maintain your new career but you will also have the confidence and courage to take your completed first phase of career transition into the next phase of success.

You'll also get exclusive access to personalised support from Grace + Solonia, collective intelligence from an initmate cohort of like-minded people going the journey with you, and a closed Facebook Mastermind Group of Career Shifters

But the proof is always in the pudding. If completing the course doesn’t allow you to do any one of the following things, we’ll refund 100% of our payment. That’s a promise.

Learn how to set goals, stay focused, and get shit done - no more excuses, procrastinating, or wasting time.
Start to build better routines, productivity habits and decision-making skills to thrive in transition.
Develop your own style and practice of networking, storytelling and advocating yourself.
Create an actionable plan to ‘pilot’ your ideas and validate your interests before making your bold move - cut down anxiety and feel confident in your decision to pivot your career.

Between the two of us, we've hopped across more than 10 jobs, straddled 15 industries/sectors, done the corporate stint, freelancing gigs, hit burnout - bounced back - took the sabbatical, launched an idea, evolved it into a business, and made plenty of nearly-fatal mistakes along the way.

Basically, we've been there, done that, and wrote the course to do it better.

We're multi-hyphenated 'Changepreneurs' who started on conventional career paths before deciding to carve our own, from scratch. We weren't fed with silver spoons or bred to be entrepreneurs: we're boot-strapping self-starters, driven by purposeful work, learning by doing and reinventing our best selves everyday.

Grace has never been one to fit the mold of a traditional career path, always a multi-hyphenate and multi-passionate, Grace started her career working part-time at as a retail sales staff at a cult brand called Gorman. At the same time she worked part time modelling and occasionally doing some freelancing PR & Marketing in Melbourne, Australia .

Pretty quickly from there, Grace took on a full time role at Gorman as Retail Manager and over the next 4 years her career change happened internally at the company, from Retail Manager to Marketing & Public Relations, then finally to Sales & Marketing Manager. Through her time at Gorman, Grace learnt the ins and outs of running and growing a business - but most importantly developed a well rounded set of skills that to this day has served her well.

After nearly 5 years at Gorman, in 2008, Grace embarked on her own path and has never gone back to working for someone else….

Her journey so far has consisted of:

Setting up a pop up and boutique fashion events company Sloane Elizabeth Robertson with an old school friend, bringing in the latest fashion brands from across the globe. Eventually spinning off into a group buying site.
Building and running boutique agency Agent Grace where she focused on business strategy, brand management and marketing within the Fashion, Travel, Lifestyle, Social Entrepreneurship and Creative sectors (Grace still works on a more advisory and coaching basis these days)
Lecturing at various institutes in Singapore on Brand Management, Marketing and E-commerce.
Community building for creatives, innovators and women entrepreneurs - CreativeMornings Singapore, SheSays Singapore and Secret {W} Business and TEDxSingapore.
Various public speaking gigs with her most prominent ones being, SXSW 2013, where she spoke on Co-Creation By Design: Asia, Women & Innovation and at TEDxAuckland 2016.
Winning the global Inspirational Leadership Award judged by Sir Richard Branson and Steve Wozniak
Awarded the CMO Asia for Leadership Excellence Award as one of Asia's 50 Women Leaders.
And….finally setting up The Change School after having her own moment of pivotal change when her father passed away and she wanted a career with more meaning.

Solonia’s creative career journey began when she finally decided to leave her role at Harvard’s Global Health Research Institute and move to New York - with little more than a dream to live and work among the creatives, hustlers and entrepreneurs of the ‘big apple’.

From 2005 - 2008 her body of work comprised of... Product design, sourcing and supply chain management for FMCG and hospitality brands Studio management, media relations and talent scouting for an international photographer Brand marketing, public relations and business development for local designers in fashion, swimwear, homeware and jewellery/accessories

Taking a cue from the Wall Street crisis in 2008, she decided to move (back) to Asia and spent the first year as a digital nomad - honing her transferrable skills to do freelance projects in different regional markets. From 2008 - 2013 she quickly transitioned from the corporate world to a path of entrepreneurship and continued to build her body of work through...

Corporate PR freelance projects with a boutique financial advisory in Hong Kong
Brand marketing and CSR consulting for a portfolio of public & private sector clients with a global PR agency
Strategic planning, digital marketing and project management for local corporations and SMEs
Building ground-up community initiatives and Singapore chapters of global movements such as the Worldwide Feast and Social Good Summit
Conference and event planning for regional business leader networks
Design Thinking training, facilitation and programming for local schools and educators
Setting up a boutique advisory (SolWorks) to help businesses amplify their mission and impact
Co-conspiring with long-time friend Grace Clapham to create The Change School - a culmination of her passions, strengths and diverse experience aimed at helping people to find their calling and create meaningful careers that are aligned to their values, talents and personal vision.

Together, Grace + Solonia have been on the stage of TEDxAuckland (2017) to inspire more purpose-driven changemakers to Step Up to Global Citizenship as well as receiving Asia’s 50 Women Leaders - Leadership Excellence award (2016) from CMO Asia and World Brand Congress, and the Global Training & Development Leadership Award (2017) from the World Training & Development Congress. The two of them frequent the public speaking stage as ambassadors of change and inspiration looking to ignite a life of passion + purpose in the world.

WHAT DO YOU VALUE? Defining what inspires you at a core level - what you really want from your life and career.
WHO ARE YOU? What your experiences have equipped you for (both personally + professionally). Defining success + fulfillment and using that as a map for your journey.
WHY PRESS ON? Discover your motivators + make sense of where you’ve been and where you’re going and ultimately your purpose + passion.
WHAT’S STOPPING YOU? Unblocking your barriers and turning your fears into fuel for positive momentum. Ultimately empowering you to get up and get shit done.
WHAT IS YOUR FORMULA? Identifying your core values and aligning your career possibilities + ideas in order to uncover the type of work you love.
WHAT IS YOUR VALUE? Aligning your career assets + aspirations + possibilities to craft a career narrative that speaks to the value you bring.
WHAT’S NEXT? Design + Create + Implement a personalised and detailed action plan that charts your immediate next steps and next meaningful milestones to take your career to the next level and make your bold career dreams a reality.

A Proven System Tailored To Your Goals: This program is highly structured to start where you are and chart your next career phase + maximising available resources + leveraging your transferable skills + de-risking your transition without compromising your lifestyle or financial security.
Lifetime Members Access: All course modules + materials will be available in our members platform.
Career Success Resources: Downloadable tools, templates, tips and tricks to fail-proof your career transition. Highly structured + actionable homework, cheat sheets, tip sheets and checklists to help you stay on track.

In this first phase, you will be guided through a reflective process of looking back on your career journey to understand what’s worked, what didn’t, and what your experiences have taught you about yourself, your core values, and the type of work that fulfills you.

You’ll learn:

How to make sense of your career journey and where you are now
How to ‘map’ your career journey and find the common thread that ties and tells your career story
How to understand and ‘match’ your values, interests and personal traits to career opportunities that meet YOUR criteria of professional fulfilment.

By the end of this session, you will have clarity of where you are in your career journey, why you are at this pivotal moment, and how your identity shapes your career journey.

In this phase, you will be guided through exercises aimed at helping you to define your career aspirations, set your intentions, and evaluate your career options based on your personal values and desired life/work style.

You’ll learn:

How to discover and define your career hopes, desires and dreams
How to make career decisions based on what’s most important to you

By the end of this session, you will have clarity of what you want from your Life/Work, a criteria for assessing your career opportunities, and a framework for decision-making that inspire you to take action with confidence.

In this phase, you will be guided through the steps and building blocks of repurposing your transferable skills and experiences, developing a strategy and practice of building your ‘tribe’ and creating your ideal job / career description.

You’ll learn:

How to define, expand, and position your transferrable skills and relevant experience
How to tap your network and build your tribe of advocates and supporters for your career transition
How to research, clarify and articulate your ideal job or new career direction

By the end of this session, you will be fully equipped to start carving your new career path by positioning and advocating yourself authentically, networking meaningfully and effectively, and articulating a clear career mission statement.

In this phase, you will be guided through the process of crafting your career statement, packaging your career assets and building your professional profile (on- and offline) to start positioning yourself for career success.

You’ll learn:

How to craft a powerful career statement that advocates your career assets, aspirations and purpose
How to prepare your career essentials by packaging and repurposing your skills, strengths and experience
How to position yourself for career success in the on- and offline world

By the end of this session, you will be equipped with all the essentials for ‘selling’ yourself with confidence and actively positioning yourself for career success in a meaningful and authentic way.

In this final phase, you will be guided through an exercise to help you find your career ‘sweet spot’ and a blueprint for creating a 60 or 90 Day career move plan without compromising your current job or shifting too quickly.

You’ll learn:

How to find your career ‘sweet spot’ with a simple formula
How to create a realistic plan that will help you envision, experiment and experience a new professional role before making any bold career moves or decisions.
How to define and set clear goals, milestones and timelines for your career move plan for maximised results and minimal risk.

By the end of this session, you will have a complete roadmap and everything you need to execute your career move, get yourself out there, and put your ideas to action! We’ll be there to support you, cheer you on, and help keep you accountable every step of the way.

Your STATEMENT

A powerful and coherent statement that tells the story of your career journey, the intentions for your change/transition, and the aspirations behind who you are becoming.

Your FOUNDATION

A summary of your unique traits, transferrable skill set, work experience and ‘ideal job’ description that positions you for the opportunities you want.

Your TRIBE

A strategy and practice for continuously building and nurturing your tribe of supporters, challengers, peers and working relationships to keep moving forward.

New HABITS

A system of structured practices and techniques for managing your time and productivity effectively, and staying motivated and accountable throughout your career transition.

Your ACTION PLAN

A comprehensive, step-by-step plan that maps out your journey into small + attainable + actionable steps.

USD 699

>> 5 Modules to help you make that BOLD career move.

>> Downloadable Tools, templates, checklists, videos, worksheets and much much more.

>> Lifetime access to the course and materials that you can download straight to your own desktop and access at anytime.

>> Self-paced - Start the course immediately and work through it at your own pace or take the course any time you want to start taking action.

>> Access to a Private Closed Facebook Community for support and accountability.

Money. Career Coaches normally charge an hourly rate of $200 - $300. Multiply that by the 4-8 sessions you’d need and expect to pay anything from $800 - $2400
Opportunity cost of doing nothing. If you’re currently unemployed, an annual salary of $50K works out to $140 per day. That’s a decent chunk of change to be leaving on the table! <
Time. If you’re miserable in your current job/role, consider the fact that we spend an average of 20-30% of our entire lives working. Wouldn’t you rather spend that time building relationships and career opportunities that inspire and energise you?
Your sanity. Let’s face it, career transition can be taxing on your relationships, family, health and lifestyle. But with the right guidance, structure, tools and support, you’ll have everything you need to make forward strides in the right direction without compromising the quality and pleasures of daily life. I’ll leave it to you to work out the value of a stress and worry free life, but we’d say the value of freedom is PRICELESS.

We know the doubt and uncertainty that surrounds career change.

Maybe you're thinking....

What if I do all this work and still don't figure out my next direction?
Is this the right time to be shaking up my career?
Will this be a good investment of my time, money and effort?
How am I going to pay the bills?
What if I'm one of those people destined to do boring / unfulfilling work for a paycheck?

The real question is....How committed are YOU to making a career change?

We don't have the answer. But YOU do.

Here's a clue from Warren Buffet:

"Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far"

When does this course start? BOLD LIGHT starts immediately. As soon as you sign up and pay you'll get your login details.

When is the next enrolment for the BOLD LIVE course? We usually open enrolment for the BOLD LVE course every 3 months. If you're interested, register yourself on the waitlist and we'll send you through updates on the next open enrolment.

What's the difference between the BOLD LIGHT and the BOLD LIVE? The BOLD LIGHT allows you to access the course immediately and move through the 5 modules and workbooks and worksheets at your own pace.

BOLD LIVE, the modules are released weekly over the 5 weeks and you also have 5 weeks of Group Coaching with Grace + Solonia, a closed private support group, personalised feedback, a 360 Assessment and report and several other added bonuses and perks.

What happens after I sign up and pay? You'll get an email with your login details and you can get started immediately.

How much time do I need to dedicate each week? If you purchase the BOLD LIGHT program you can move through it as quickly or as slowly as you like and really depends on how much time you're able to dedicate or how fast you'd like to make that career change.

If you're joining us for the BOLD IVE then we recommend you set aside 2 - 4 hours a week to go through the program worksheets, cheatsheets and implement any of the suggested assignments. There is however no right or wrong amount of time because you’ll have lifetime access to the program and all future updates!

How is this course different from other career change courses - or getting a career coach - other than the cost value? What sets this program apart from so many other online courses out there is the emphasis on minimising the risks involved with your bold career move. This 5-wk system is designed to help equip you with all the tools, guide you through the foundational stages of your career transition, and help you to create a pilot plan that you can execute without leaving your job or taking any big decisions prematurely.

How much access do I get to Grace & Solonia and The Change School Team? Do I get support throughout? If you purchase the BOLD LIGHT version you won't have access to Grace and Solonia as this is a self-paced course.

If you purchase the BOLD LIVE version, yes, you will have support throughout and you will have access to Grace & Solonia through the private Facebook group and group coaching. Grace and Solonia, along with the Change School Team will be there to answer your questions, help motivate you through, guide you through the “homework” and also give you feedback on the work you put in.

How do you asses or give feedback on my work? For those signed up to BOLD LIGHT you can share within our closed public Career Shifters group. For those signd up to BOLD LIVE, whenever there is “homework” we encourage you to share your work with us via our private closed Facebook group and we will share our comments and feedback or within one of our 5 group coaching sessions.

How do I know if this is for me? If you are someone who is committed to designing a career that uses your gifts, fills your purpose and allows you more freedom and happiness.

You feel undervalued, underchallenged or a lack of meaning in your current role.
You’ve recently left a job and the pressure is ON to figure out your next step.
You’re on the fence: Am I doing what is right for me, or should I change direction?
You feel ‘stuck’ in the wrong career and uncertain about your next step.
You’re tired of procrastinating, over thinking, daydreaming and imagining What if?
You’re overwhelmed by career possibilities and worry you’ll make a bad choice.
You long to escape corporate convention and the pigeonhole of your narrowly defined career to do something completely different.
You have multiple interests and talents and struggle to apply them to your career.
You fear the risks involved with career change / transition and lack the tools, guidance and support to start taking action.
You’re ready to abandon everything you’ve been taught about making sound career decisions and follow a first-act-then-think process of repurposing your career.

What if I’m not in a career/ job right now, is this suitable? Definitely! The course is designed to help you start from where you are and move you in the direction of your next career chapter. It is suitable for anyone at a career crossroads, in a career transition, or thinking about a career change. You don’t have to be in a job, but you must be committed to putting in the work to make change happen.

I’ve never taken an online course or program, how does this work? Don’t worry, if you’ve never taken an online training program - as it’s EASY to get online and learn with us. If you purchase the Bold Light version, all of the sessions are ready and waiting for you in our online platform. As soon as you pay you'll receive an email with your username + password. Simply login and get started!

If you are joining us for the BOLD LIVE course, you will get a username + password via email within a minute of enrolling, sharing the links for both our membership platform and our weekly LIVE group coaching sessions. Each week a new module is released over the 5 weeks, followed by our weekly LIVE Group Coaching sessions. If you miss the LIVE group coaching sessions we will record it and it will be available on our private membership site with 24 hours. Simply login and get access.

What does Lifetime access mean? LIfetime access means that you will be able to get access to this course for as long as we continue to run it, including all future updates or versions. That’s access to the recordings, worksheets and anything else that you will receive during the entire time of the course.

When can I expect to see results? Well as with all things regarding to change, it takes time and it’s a process. This isn’t a “quick fix” by any means - you’ll want to make the right Career Change and this will allow you to experiment. Confidently Create Your Bold Career Move was intentionally designed so that you go through step by step and accompany the implementation in the same order. If you work through the training that way it will dramatically amplify your outco

CONFIDENTLY CREATE YOUR BOLD CAREER MOVE

An immersive self-paced online course

USING A RISK-FREE METHOD THAT WILL IGNITE YOUR CAREER CHANGE (And Enjoy the Journey)

We know you aren’t looking to be sold- you don’t need to be because you already know that you are:

"The best part was the most difficult - the work! I really love the content because I enjoy going deep. Great job guys! I read a lot and had come across some of it, but having it distilled into modules, and being held accountable beyond being a passive consumer was awesome." - Adeline Teo

WE KNOW WHY YOU ARE HERE:

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Here are the facts...

>> Career Change Is The New Normal

>> Career Change Is A Journey

>> COMMITMENT+ PROCESS + ACTION = SUCCESS

Our hope is to give you every reason to feel POSITIVE and EXCITED about dreaming BIG, being BOLD, and starting your journey WITH US!

You must choose between following the money or following your heart/passion

Career change is risky business.

‘Sucking up’ your career dissatisfaction will make it go away

You should know what you want to do and have a complete plan to make it happen

Making a career change will compromise what you’ve already achieved

Here's some truth...

Out of all the courses why THIS one?

"This course really helped me to understand my skills, I got so much guidance from Grace and Solonia on my resume, on how to improve my cover letters. And generally doing this course helped me to break out of my myopic view of looking at my career.

I no longer believe that I have to stick to design (just because that is what I've always done). I'm excited to explore all the other possibilities out there."

- Amreen Rahman

So, What's In The Pudding?

HOW CAN WE MAKE THAT PROMISE?

If you’d like to see a snippet of our resumes:

Grace Clapham Co-Founder The Change School

Solonia Teodros Co-Founder The Change School

What we're saying is...

"This course really helped me to get more clarity in my career direction and made me more confident in being open to trying new roles"

- Ziwei Xiao

Here’s what you’re going to clarify + develop through this course:

Here’s how the program will get you results:

MODULE 1 - LOOKING BACK

MODULE 2 - DESIGNING YOUR LIFE & CAREER

MODULE 3 - The Foundation - Repurposing Your Skills

MODULE 4 - The Essentials - Carving Your Path

MODULE 5 - The Pilot - Crafting Your Plan

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HERE'S YOUR TAKEAWAY FROM THE COURSE

"After going through this course I felt much more confident about making a change.

I learnt alot about myself, my skill set and the type of working environment I'd be suited to. "

- Lucy Miles

BOLD LIGHT

So what's the VALUE of all of this?

TOTAL ACTUAL VALUE: $2900+

If that's not enough value, here's what you will SAVE...

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