Description
We’re excited to invite you to Supporting Achievers to Unlock Career Success — a fresh, practical guide for career professionals, career coaches and HR professionals who work with high achievers navigating change and challenges.
In conversation with Associate Professor Deirdre Hughes OBE, author Carolyn Parry will share the personal journey and professional insights that inspired the book, from her own midlife career pivot to over 25 years helping people thrive in careers, employability, and leadership.
This isn’t just a talk — it’s a chance to explore how we, as career professionals, can better support achievers to uncover what’s really behind dissatisfaction, misalignment, or burnout, and coach for success that feels both fulfilling and sustainable.
You’ll discover:
- The Seven Career Thieves framework and how it helps clients build self-awareness, reconnect with values, and unlock potential without sacrificing wellbeing.
- Real-life coaching stories, psychological insights, and practical tools you can use right away
Whether you’re a career coach, HR or L&D professional, or work with high-performing individuals, this session promises inspiration, practical strategies, and plenty of food for thought.
Resources:
Supporting Achievers Book Launch Slides
Supporting Achievers Book Launch Slides With Notes
Download and make an origami swan
Listen to Carolyn’s Playlist – It’s designed to be a journey from despair to hope.
Why join?
- Learn key themes and coaching approaches from the book.
- Understand how to spot patterns that undermine achiever potential.
- Take away ideas to enhance your practice.
Come celebrate with us, connect with peers, and leave with tools to make a real difference.
Who should watch?
Career coaches, careers advisers, employability and guidance practitioners, HR and L&D professionals, leadership coaches, and anyone supporting high achievers, professionals, or executives through career development, transition, or change.
About The Author
Carolyn Parry FRSA, FHEA, FIEEP, FCDI, BA (Hons) RCDP is a multi-award-winning career and life coach, TEDx speaker, non-exec director, podcaster and author. Carolyn Parry is a recent past President, Chair of the Board, and Fellow of the Career Development Institute.
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.
Follow Carolyn on social media: LinkedIn
X (formerly Twitter): @CareerAlchemist BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/careeralchemist.bsky.social
Discover more about her work here: https://www.careeralchemy.co.uk/
Book a discovery call here: https://www.careeralchemy.co.uk/book-a-call.html
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