I know exactly how these feelings can impact on your life. This is why I have spent the last 10 years researching and refining my model. It’s all come from first-hand experience. 

In 2010, in my mid forties, I secured what I thought was the pinnacle of my career dreams; a Director in a FTSE 30 Company, doing what I love – identifying and creating talent within the Company. It was a fantastic salary and benefit package and I thought, WOW, I have done it.

 However, it was not all it seemed to be.   First, I thought I could handle the daily cold showers of head office politics and the negative, egotistical, pale, male environment, the not walking the talk, the constant mismatch between the brand values and the actual reality - because I believed in the vision and loved working with the many vital colleagues, who were the lifeblood of our business.

 But, 18 months later, I realised I was a shadow of my former self, I had lost all confidence and self-belief and I felt I was back in that school playground again – I'd completely lost my identity - I knew I had to get out.

 But it came to what they call a “compromise!! I had made myself redundant