Supporting Midlife Career Transitions Through Coaching: A Psychological Guide

By Clare Mulligan-Foster

This book provides practical advice for career coaches, executive coaches, and HR professionals who support midlife professionals navigating career
transitions.

Midlife career transitions are becoming the norm, not the exception. As the workforce lives longer, works longer, and redefines success, career coaches
must adapt to new models that address the unique psychological, financial, and identity challenges of midlife career change. This book bridges this gap, proposing a research-backed framework for coaching midlife clients. It offers psychological insights into the fears, identity shifts, and motivations behind midlife career change, practical coaching tools, strategies, and case studies to guide clients through uncertainty, and a roadmap for portfolio careers, self-employment, and new career pathways. The book ensures coaches have
the evidence-based knowledge, tools, and confidence to guide their clients through one of the most significant career transitions of their lives.

Equipping coaches to support clients who are not starting over but evolving into their next stage of meaningful work, this is the ideal resource for both career coaches and HR professionals, as well as students of coaching.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041126603
• ISBN13: 9781041126607
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages