Space To Shift Your Career
Welcome to Space to Shift Your Career!
This show, hosted by Yvonne Davidis, invites leaders in the public sector to explore new paths that reflect who they are now and how they want their career to evolve in future.
Episodes cover how to overcome the feeling of being trapped, get motivated to take action and tap into your creativity to design exciting possibilities for yourself.
The podcast also offers strategies and tools to help you navigate the shifts and turns on the way to living out your ideal career and life.
Episodes
35 episodes
34: Build a Financial Safety Net for Your Public Sector Career Change - 4 Practical Steps
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/34Imagine you’re a trapeze artist learning a new routine. You wouldn’t practise without a net below you,...
33: Are You Married to Your Job? When Public Sector Leaders Realise Their Life Drifted Off Course
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/33 I was talking to a client recently about his family situation. He told that...
32: Avoid Leaping Blindly into Your Public Sector Career Change
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31: ‘I’m Not Good at Selling Myself’ - The Thought That Keeps Public Sector Leaders Stuck
Sign up here to get new episodes straight into your inbox. There’s a sentence I hear often in career change conversations with public sector leader...
30: Is Your Public Sector Career Still a Fit?
Sign up here to get new episodes straight into your inbox. “I don’t fit into my role anymore.” A public sector leader said this to me r...
29: How Public Sector Leaders Turn Conversations into Career Exploration
Don't want to miss any new episodes? Sign up here to get them straight into your inbox.You’ve been in your public sector career for quite some time now, ...
28: THIS Crazy Move Helps Public Sector Leaders Discover What's Next
Don't want to miss any new episodes? Sign up here to get them straight into your inbox.There’s a phrase out there that always makes me cringe a little.&n...
27: When Public Sector Leaders Lose Motivation for A Career They Once Loved
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/27There is this moment public sector leaders don’t talk about a lot. It’s not burnout in the...
26: Why Public Sector Leaders Already Have What It Takes to Navigate Career Change
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/26Imagine you’ve spent years building a specialised toolkit.You’ve used it in high-pressure situa...
25: Develop Your Own Metrics to Evaluate Alternative Career Options
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/25Imagine you’re standing on a lookout, scanning the horizon with a pair of binoculars.At first, ...
24: 3 Uncertainty Traps for Public Sector Leaders Considering What Next
Find the full transcript - and other resources - at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/24At some point in my work with public sector leaders exploring their next caree...
23: A Smarter Way for Public Sector Leaders to Change Careers
Find the full transcript - and other resources - at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/23Imagine you’re standing on one side of a river. On the other side ...
22: Why Career Change Feels Existential For Public Sector Leaders
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/22Changing careers can feel a bit like a divorce. But not just from a job.It can feel like breaki...
21: The Flip Side of Loyalty for Public Sector Leaders Wondering What Next
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/21Many public sector leaders feel guilty for wanting something different, even when their work no longer lights t...
20: How Public Sector Leaders Find Work They Love
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/20Do you feel like you’re performing a role you’ve outgrown? There’s a significant differenc...
19: Tap Into Your Creativity To Explore New Career Options
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/19As a public sector leader, you don’t make big decisions just based on vibes. You work with evidence.&n...
18: The ‘What If’ Spiral Keeping Public Sector Leaders Stuck
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/18 Have you ever noticed how old scripts stick around long after they’re useful?Like a templ...
17: Why the Big New Career Idea Won't Just Arrive and What to Do Instead
Find the full transcript at http://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/17As a public sector leader, you are used to working on wicked problems that don’t have easy answers.<...
16: When Global Forces Shake Up Your Public Sector Career
Find the full transcript at https://spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/16 In the public sector, we’re trained to scan the horizon: New policy challenges. Politic...
15: Why It's Time For Public Sector Leaders To Re-Define Success
Get your FREE copy of the 'Re-Define Success' Workbook at https://SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/15 Many of us entered work in the public sector with a stron...
14: What Will Your Future Contribution Be - Outside the Public Sector?
Find the full transcript at SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/14As public sector leader, you witness how the world is shifting quickly. Long-term strategies like five-year ca...
13: THIS Is An Appointment With Yourself, Public Sector Leader
Find the full transcript at spacetoshiftyourcareer.com/13Today, on the last day of 2025, I want to share with you my personal end-of-year reflection framework.
12: Public Sector Leader, Are You Getting The Break You Need?
Find the full transcript at https://SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com/12You know how every year, as government agencies approach the end of the financial cycle, we rush to cl...
