When women leave a corporate career to start a business, they expect to spend time learning new skills.
Few expect the biggest challenge to be unlearning.
This is The Corporate Hangover: the invisible residue of a successful corporate career. It’s the habits, beliefs, behaviours and unwritten rules that helped us thrive in one environment but may hold us back in another.
The challenge is that we rarely recognise them. Years of workplace norms and expectations embed these behaviours so deeply that they simply feel like the right way to work.
And because these qualities may be exactly what made us successful in corporate, we carry them into business without realising how differently they can show up.
Perfectionism becomes delayed action. High standards become endless tweaking. People-pleasing becomes saying yes too often. Reliability becomes a lack of boundaries. Professionalism becomes hiding your personality.
That’s why so many capable women begin to question themselves after leaving employment. They’re still responding to an environment they’ve left behind.
Through personalised coaching, I help women recognise those patterns, understand where they come from and how they’re getting in the way, and decide what they want to do differently. We separate the strengths and experience worth keeping from the rules and expectations that no longer fit, so they can trust their own judgement and take meaningful action towards unstoppable momentum.
Building a business after corporate means choosing what comes with you, without compromising all you know and who you are.
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