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When You Are Dissatisfied But Not Ready To Leave
You've been in this role for a while now. Maybe a handful of years. The work itself is fine. You're good at it. Possibly the best in the organisation at what you do. But something feels off.
You're solving the same problems repeatedly. The work that once challenged you now feels routine. You keep having the same conversations with stakeholders who promise action but then do nothing. And the lack of clarity about future direction becomes ever more frustrating.
You're not ready to leave. This organisation, this role - it could still work. But something needs to change. You just don't know what yet.
Here Is What's Actually Happening
You're no longer happy in your role, but you haven't hit the breaking point. There’s a lot to lose so you’d rather make this work. But you need something to shift, soon. You're not looking for an exit - yet.
Maybe you need to be given the autonomy to actually deliver. Maybe you need different responsibilities. Maybe you need clarity about what comes next.
Maybe you need to reposition yourself internally so you're solving higher-level problems instead of tactical ones. But right now, you're stuck in patterns that aren't serving you - and you're not sure how to break them.
A Mini Case Study
When Ross (Managing Director, engineering organisation) first got in touch, he wasn't entirely sure why he was looking for support. He wasn't going through a clear-cut career transition. He wasn't preparing for a promotion. He wasn't planning to leave. He just knew something wasn't working.
We identified it: He was solving the same organisational problems over and over. His strategic thinking wasn't being utilised. The work he was doing had become stale. He was dissatisfied but hadn't articulated it clearly enough to know what to do about it.
Six months after working with us, the work became intellectually challenging again. Not because he changed roles, but because he changed how he operated within his role, moving from tactical problem-solving to strategic influence.
What Happens If This Doesn't Get Resolved
Indecision
You gradually move from "dissatisfied but staying" to "need to leave but don't know where to go".
Stagnating
Your strategic capabilities atrophy because you're not using them at full capacity.
Feeling Undervalued
You become increasingly frustrated with stakeholders who don't value your expertise.
Lack Of Opportunity
Good opportunities pass you by because you're not considered for them internally.
You stay too long in a role that's no longer developing you, and eventually realise you should have made a change years ago. You worry that you’ve left it too late.
How the Executive Transition Accelerator™ Helps
Most leaders in your situation try to solve this alone, analysing what's wrong, considering options, hoping clarity will emerge. It rarely does. Because when you're inside the problem, you can't see the pattern clearly enough to break it.
The Executive Transition Accelerator™ gives you what you can't get from within: Perspective from peer-level leaders who've navigated similar crossroads, frameworks for diagnosing what's actually causing your dissatisfaction, and strategic approaches for shifting your internal trajectory without starting over elsewhere.
You work with Directors, VPs, and senior leaders who understand the complexity of your situation because they’ve been there too.
You identify whether the issue is your role scope, how you're operating within it, or whether the organisational culture genuinely doesn't value what you bring. Then you get the specific frameworks to address whichever dynamic you're experiencing.
So you can move from feeling stuck and understimulated to operating at the level your capabilities warrant - either by transforming how you work within your current organisation or by gaining clarity that it's time to make a strategic move.
Previous clients have secured the autonomy within their current organisations that finally matched their strategic thinking, advanced to more senior internal roles without leaving, shifted from reactive problem-solving to proactive stakeholder influence, and reconnected with the intellectual challenge that originally drew them to this work.
Faq
Visit our ETA programme page for complete details on programme structure, what's included, and how it works.
Yes. We provide detailed documentation to support getting this programme 100% funded by your company. We position this as bespoke, high-level strategic advisory rather than personal coaching, which makes organisational funding straightforward.
For our flagship Executive Transition Accelerator™, we accept 18 senior leaders and recently appointed executives per year across three cohorts. Our ETA Platinum™ programme has ongoing enrollment but requires a formal application process and is exclusive to leaders who currently operate at SVP, Director and C-suite levels.
