Carolyn's background includes a pivotal mid-life shift from a successful but soul-eroding 17-year management career across property, software, and publishing into career development work. She spent almost 15 years at Aberystwyth University, where she progressed from trainee careers adviser to careers and employability director before founding Career Alchemy, her career and life coaching practice, in 2015. She specialises in supporting early-stage and mid-career professionals together with executives through career challenges and change so they can enjoy greater fulfilment and achieve more purposefully without burning out.

Her expertise and interests include career change, values, purpose, confidence, and motivation; supporting women’s career development; entrepreneurship; the UN Sustainable Development Goals; the impact of AI on careers; and career well-being for high and overachievers. She is a member of the Careers Writers Association and the Society of Authors.

She has over twenty years’ experience as a company director and more than ten years’ experience as a non-executive director. She currently serves as a Trustee Director on the Board of Antur Cymru, a £4M social enterprise that helps rural Welsh businesses start and grow, and, until recently, was also on the Board of Ceredigion Citizens Advice, part of the UK-wide network of Citizens Advice charities.

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Discover more about her work here: https://www.careeralchemy.co.uk/

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