A practical one day workshop for professionals leaving corporate life, retirement, redundancy, or career transition with a clear plan for what comes next.
For HR, some of the most complex transitions to manage are experienced professionals aged 50 and above. They often carry higher legal sensitivity, deeper identity disruption, longer reemployment risk, stronger financial consequences, and greater reputational risk for the employer.
Designed for experienced professionals (typically 40-65) who want to turn their career knowledge into independent consulting, coaching, advisory, mentoring, or portfolio work—with a structured business plan by end of day.
The Executive Nomad Workshop Guarantee
By the end of the day, every attendee will have built a structured business plan for turning their existing experience into an independent coaching, strategic consulting, mentoring, workshop facilitation, advisory, or NED style business.
No income claims. No false promises. Just a serious one day process that turns career experience into a practical business direction.
"This is not a motivational day out. It is a working session where experienced professionals leave with a real business plan, built around the value already sitting inside their career history."
The awkward gap standard outplacement does not always solve
Many organisations are good at helping employees leave properly from a process, compliance, and communication point of view. But many experienced professionals need more than CV polishing, job search advice, or another career portal.
- •Some are not looking for another full time role.
- •Some are tired of corporate politics.
- •Some want flexible income, purpose, and autonomy.
- •Some are highly experienced but uncertain how to turn that experience into a marketable independent offer.
- •Some are approaching retirement but are not ready to stop contributing.
- •Some have been made redundant and need structure, confidence, and direction fast.
The workshop gives HR a practical place to send those people.
A practical one day transition workshop for experienced professionals
The Executive Nomad London Workshop helps attendees identify how their career experience can be turned into independent value.
Not just consulting. The workshop explores:
What the workshop does:
- • Gives attendees a structured pathway to turn their career experience into independent value
- • Provides clear positioning and practical assets
- • Creates a credible next step with a real business plan
Why HR teams use Executive Nomad London
A constructive option for experienced leavers
For employees who are not naturally suited to another job search, the workshop gives them a more realistic and dignified alternative.
Supports redundancy and restructuring
A practical add on to existing exit support, especially for people with deep expertise who may want independence.
Helps late career employees see new options
Some experienced employees are not ready to retire, but no longer want the same corporate path.
Reduces the "what now?" problem
The workshop helps people turn uncertainty into a clear direction.
Complements outplacement
This is not a replacement for legal, HR, or standard career support. It gives a different route for people who may want to build independent work.
Shows visible duty of care
It helps the organisation show that it supports people beyond the exit conversation.
An outplacement alternative for London and the South East
Traditional outplacement focuses on job search and career portals. Executive Nomad London takes a different approach—helping experienced professionals who may not want to return to employment, but instead want to build independent consulting, coaching, advisory, or portfolio careers.
It's designed as a complement to, or alternative to, standard outplacement for HR teams supporting experienced professionals through redundancy, retirement, redeployment, or career transition.
Accessible across London and the South East
Based in central London (Institute of Directors, City Road), the workshop is easily accessible for HR teams and professionals across the region:
- •London: All boroughs and zones
- •Surrey: Guildford, Woking, Croydon
- •Berkshire: Reading, Slough, Windsor
- •Kent: Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Canterbury
- •Sussex: Brighton, Crawley, Horsham
- •Hampshire: Southampton, Winchester, Basingstoke
Why HR managers recommend this:
- • Offers experienced employees a credible alternative to job search
- • Complements or replaces traditional outplacement with practical business planning
- • Gives departing professionals a clear route into independent work
- • Demonstrates HR investment in employee transition support
- • Accessible location makes it easy for your team to recommend and coordinate
Who should HR nominate?
The workshop is suitable for experienced professionals who:
- Have 15 plus years of career experience
- Are aged roughly 40 to 65
- Are leaving, at risk of leaving, or thinking beyond their current role
- Have expertise that could be repurposed into consulting, coaching, mentoring, advisory work, or project based support
- Need a structured way to think beyond employment
- Are not naturally suited to influencer style online business content
- Want a calm, credible, professional route into independent work
- Need clarity, positioning, and practical next steps
The workshop is NOT suitable for people who:
- ✕Expect instant clients
- ✕Want a get rich quick scheme
- ✕Are looking for generic startup advice
- ✕Need basic employability training
- ✕Are not willing to reflect seriously on their career experience
- ✕Only want a motivational event with no practical work
What each attendee leaves with
A structured business plan for their independent next chapter
A clearly chosen business direction
A mapped inventory of career wins, losses, lessons, skills, judgment, and marketable expertise
A draft coaching, strategic consulting, mentoring, workshop facilitation, advisory, or NED style offer
A clear target buyer profile
A simple positioning statement
A first version of their service description
A list of possible sectors, organisations, or buyer groups where their expertise could transfer
A practical 30 day action plan
A route to market starting point
A clearer understanding of how AI can support their transition without overwhelming them
A calm sense of what comes next.
The method: Rewire, Repackage, Repurpose
Rewire
Look back through career wins, losses, lessons, patterns, expertise, judgment, and hard earned experience. Extract where the real value sits.
Repackage
Turn that value into a named, credible offer that organisations can understand and buy. Move away from hourly rate thinking and into outcome based positioning.
Repurpose
Identify where that experience can travel across sectors, companies, countries, and business problems. Build a location flexible professional identity around transferable authority.
Your workshop host
Led by Jamie Sylvian, founder of Executive Nomad
Jamie Sylvian is the founder of Executive Nomad and the creator of the Rewire, Repackage, Repurpose method.
For more than 25 years, Jamie has worked independently across communications, strategy, business development, positioning, research, and commercial advisory projects. His career has included board level consulting, international business development, sales team training, political and public sector related work, property, publishing, investor communications, and strategic positioning.
That experience sits behind the workshop.
Jamie is not teaching theory from the sidelines. Executive Nomad is built around a practical idea he has lived for decades: experienced people do not need to disappear when the traditional career path stops working. They can turn their judgement, scars, commercial instincts, sector knowledge, and hard won experience into independent value.
"Most experienced professionals are sitting on far more marketable value than they realise. The problem is not lack of expertise. The problem is that their expertise has never been extracted, named, packaged, and pointed at the right buyer."
25 plus years of independent strategic work
Jamie has spent more than two decades working outside the conventional employee track, helping organisations think, communicate, position, sell, and adapt.
Board level and senior advisory exposure
His work has included board level consulting and strategic communications support across established organisations and complex stakeholder environments.
International commercial experience
Jamie has worked across multiple countries and sectors, giving him direct experience of portable expertise, cross sector opportunity, and location flexible professional work.
Sales, positioning, and offer development
He has trained sales teams, helped shape commercial propositions, developed outreach campaigns, and supported business development projects.
Founder and category builder
Executive Nomad was created to give experienced professionals a structured way to turn career history into independent business direction, without forcing them into generic job search or influencer style entrepreneurship.
Practical, not motivational
Jamie's role in the workshop is to help attendees extract, structure, and package what they already know into a credible business plan.
“Bloody Brilliant!”
Louise Medve
CEO of Speak Elite and Positioning Expert & Industry Leader for Global Speaking Engagements
Why Jamie is hosting this workshop
After decades of working independently, Jamie saw the same pattern repeatedly. Experienced professionals were leaving employment with years of judgement, knowledge, relationships, and hard earned lessons, but no clear structure for turning that into independent work.
Many were too experienced for generic career advice, but not naturally drawn to startup culture, personal branding hype, or online business noise.
The Executive Nomad London Workshop was created to fill that gap.
It gives HR teams a credible place to send experienced professionals who need more than a CV refresh, and gives attendees a serious working day in which to turn their career history into a practical business plan.
One day. Structured. Practical. No wasted theatre.
Times may vary slightly by event date.
A professional London setting for serious career transition
The workshop is designed to take place in a calm, professional London environment suitable for experienced attendees. The planned venue is the Institute of Directors, London.
Tickets and HR funded places
Flexible pricing for individual and group bookings
1 Ticket
For one attendee
HR group booking
Per person for 3 plus attendees. Invoice supported
Private company cohort
For organisations wanting a dedicated internal group
Included in every place
By the end of the day, each attendee will have created a practical business plan for turning their experience into an independent coaching, strategic consulting, mentoring, workshop facilitation, advisory, or NED style business.
This is a planning and positioning guarantee, not an income or client acquisition guarantee.
- One full day workshop
- Workshop materials
- Practical exercises
- 30 day action planning template
- Refreshments and lunch
- Post event summary resources
- Optional employer invoice
Group Booking Savings
| Number of Attendees | Price per Person | Total Cost | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 attendee | £595 | £595 | — |
| 3 attendees | £495 | £1,485 | £300 |
| 5 attendees | £495 | £2,475 | £500 |
| 10 attendees | £495 | £4,950 | £1,000 |
Calculate Your Group Cost
Price per person
£595
Total attendees
1
Why Book as a Group?
Team Cohesion
Attendees from the same organisation share insights and support each other through their transition journey. You build internal expertise and networks that extend beyond the workshop day.
Shared Learning & Follow-up
Your team can discuss workshop outcomes together, implement learnings collectively, and hold each other accountable to their business plans post-workshop. This multiplies the impact of the investment.
Cost Efficiency & ROI
Save £100 per person with group bookings. Invest in multiple departing executives or your L&D pipeline at a fraction of individual coaching costs. Better value, better outcomes.
Next available workshop dates
Choose from our upcoming London workshop dates.
Thursday, 15 May 2025
Time
09:30 - 17:15
Venue
Institute of Directors, London
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Time
09:30 - 17:15
Venue
Institute of Directors, London
Thursday, 17 July 2025
Time
09:30 - 17:15
Venue
Institute of Directors, London
Thursday, 21 August 2025
Time
09:30 - 17:15
Venue
Institute of Directors, London
Thursday, 18 September 2025
Time
09:30 - 17:15
Venue
Institute of Directors, London
Can't find a date that works? to discuss private cohort options or future dates.
Request the HR briefing pack
If you are reviewing this on behalf of an HR, People, Talent, L&D, or OD team, request the briefing pack and we will send the practical details.
The briefing pack covers: Workshop purpose, who it's for, learning outcomes, suggested attendee profile, pricing and group booking options, how to position internally, and next available London dates.
How HR teams can use this workshop
Redundancy support
Offer it as a positive, practical next chapter option for experienced employees leaving through restructure.
Retirement transition
Use it for people approaching retirement who still want purpose, income, and professional identity.
Redeployment alternative
Offer it when internal redeployment is not suitable but the person still has valuable expertise.
Leadership offboarding
Use it for experienced employees leaving senior or specialist roles where standard job search support feels too narrow.
Wellbeing and identity support
Use it when someone's confidence, direction, or professional identity has been shaken by career disruption.
Alumni and employer brand
Use it to show that the organisation supports people beyond the moment they leave.
Why £595 is easy to justify
At £595, the workshop is a low cost intervention compared with:
- •Executive coaching packages
- •Outplacement programmes
- •Settlement support costs
- •Long term disengagement
- •Failed redeployment
- •Poor exit experience
- •Employer brand damage
- •Repeated internal uncertainty
For the price of a modest training day, HR can give an experienced employee a structured, dignified, practical route into their next professional chapter.
About Executive Nomad
Executive Nomad helps experienced professionals turn career knowledge into independent, location flexible work through coaching, strategic consulting, mentoring, workshop facilitation, advisory projects, portfolio roles, and NED style positioning.
The work is built around the Rewire, Repackage, Repurpose method:
- •Rewire the value inside their career history.
- •Repackage that value into a clear offer.
- •Repurpose it across sectors, organisations, and buyer groups.
Executive Nomad is designed for professionals who are not ready to disappear, but also do not want to be forced back into the same career pattern by default.
It gives HR teams a practical, credible, commercially grounded way to support experienced employees through major transition points.
Executive Nomad was founded by Jamie Sylvian, who has spent more than 25 years building a career around independent strategic work, commercial positioning, communications, and business development.
Frequently asked questions
Give experienced employees a better next chapter
If your organisation has experienced professionals facing transition, redundancy, redeployment, retirement, or career uncertainty, Executive Nomad London gives you a practical, credible option to offer them.