CAREER TRANSITION COACHING
Make sense of the change
before deciding your next move.
You have built a serious career across countries, organisations, and complex systems.
When the context changes, the question becomes what that experience means now, where it still fits, and what is worth pursuing next.
A strong record does not always make the next decision obvious.
- You may be weighing whether to stay in the same field, move adjacent, reposition for a new market, or stop pursuing a direction that no longer fits.
- You may also be wondering whether you are applying to the right roles, or simply trying to create movement because the uncertainty has gone on too long.
- The work begins by separating the decision from the activity. Then we build the story, strategy, and next steps around that.
Choose where to begin
Start with the question you are trying to answer.
01.
Direction Diagnostic
I want to understand where I am unclear.
A short, practical check to help you identify where the decision feels clear, where it does not, and what may need more attention.
It takes five minutes and gives you a useful place to begin before any conversation.
02.
Decision Profile Debrief
I want a structured diagnostic before committing to longer work.
A 75-minute session using the Energy Leadership Index alongside my interpretation of your current situation.
We look at where pressure may be influencing your standards, timing, or next decision, and identify what needs to become clearer before you move.
03.
Career Recalibration
I want support through the full decision and transition.
A 10-session private coaching engagement over approximately four months.
Together, we clarify the decision in front of you, translate your experience, strengthen your positioning, and build a strategy you can use as the market responds.
Job offer received days after our final session.
Working with Mai, I was able to identify concrete methods and tools to strengthen and align my executive presence with my professional experience. This included identifying and addressing specific gaps that had time and time held me back, whether in interviews or previous positions.
Ryan K.
Global Strategy Advisor
When direction is clear
The process starts to feel like something you are building,
not something you are surviving
Better criteria
You have better criteria for which roles deserve your attention, based on level, scope, context, timing, and the parts of your experience you want to lead with now.
Clearer purpose for conversations
Some conversations are for information. Some are for positioning. Some are for opening a specific door. The value of the conversation becomes easier to use afterward.
A story you can actually use
You can explain your background without starting at the beginning, overloading the listener, or flattening what you have actually done.
Stronger standards for what deserves attention
You are not weighing every opportunity through the pressure of what arrived this week. You have clearer standards for what fits, what does not, and what deserves further attention.
Hello.
I'm Mai Rattanavong.
I bring nearly twenty years across international development, multilateral environments, recruitment, senior talent, and advisory work, alongside lived experience as a third culture kid, globally mobile professional, and spouse of a diplomat.
As an iPEC Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner, I support professionals through career change, relocation, leadership pressure, and major “what now?” moments.
My work combines a practical understanding of how international experience is evaluated from the outside with a grounded understanding of what it feels like to rebuild direction when the context around your career changes.
Who I work with
Experienced international professionals navigating change
I work with people whose careers have crossed countries, sectors, institutions, and systems, and who are now trying to make sense of what comes next.
That includes senior professionals in international development, diplomacy, multilateral organisations, global NGOs, foundations, mission-driven sectors, and global mobility.
You may be navigating a role change, sector shift, relocation, return to work, professional pause, or a moment when the old direction no longer feels clear enough to keep following.
This work is for people facing layered career decisions where experience, identity, market signals, family, money, timing, and ambition are all part of the same question.
…It is the risk of solving the wrong problem.
A better CV will not answer what you are positioning for.
More networking will not help if the conversations have no clear purpose.
More applications will not resolve whether the roles still fit the life and work you want now.
This work helps you separate activity from decision.
The goal is better decisions during a transition that has real consequences.
Why this work matters
The cost of transition is not only time.
What clients say
Clients come for different reasons.
The shifts are practical.
The ELI assessment provided useful insights into energy levels and how they can be consciously used to reach specific goals. I am very grateful for Mai's help and guidance, and feel more confident and in control following our sessions.
Edith Read
Mai's approach to coaching sets her apart from others in the field and I could sense this difference from our very first conversation. She was attuned to my energy levels, recognizing how they shifted throughout our discussion depending on the topics we explored.
Claire Tomm
I was stuck on a major decision and didn't know what was holding me back. Mai helped me gain clarity and understand my internal blocks. I'm more aware and conscious. What surprised me most was finding my own answers during our sessions.
Emma Alqattan
Your next move does not have to be a guess.
If you are facing a career decision that feels more layered than a simple job search,
this is where the work starts.
Take the Direction Diagnostic for a quick self-guided read on where you are.