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The Story Shift: Navigate Career Transitions with Confidence

4 weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Feeling uncertain about your career? Reclaim your agency, honor your journey, and embrace transformation through the power of storytelling.

Previously at

Etsy
Spotify
Universal Music Group

Course overview

A guided experience designed to help individuals navigate career transitions.

If you're aiming for a promotion, feeling stuck in your current role, or wondering what's next, let’s craft the narrative for your next chapter together.


Like most people, I’ve faced career challenges:


🤔 Early in my career, questioning if management was the right path

🤔 Mid-career, striving for a senior leadership role

🤔 Experiencing layoffs, personally and within my teams

🤔 Being so busy I rarely paused to assess my career path with intention


No one teaches us how to be strategic about our careers. We’re expected to choose a path before we’ve even explored what’s possible. And when that path stops fitting (whether it feels too tight, too loose, or suddenly disappears) there’s little guidance on what to do next.


I created this course to help you pause and look at your career with intention; to gain confidence in your journey, from where you’ve been to where you’re going. And the best news? You don’t have to navigate this alone. This is a guided journey with a cohort of people on a similar path, each bringing their own experiences, challenges, and insights.


Over four weeks, you’ll:


✅ Gain confidence in how you navigate and talk about your career

✅ Examine and synthesize career losses, ambiguity, and resistance

✅ Develop resilience and growth strategies for career uncertainty

✅ Integrate storytelling in a way that empowers you to advocate for yourself, whether in interviews, for promotions, for new opportunities, with clients, or in any space where your career narrative matters


This isn’t just a course. It’s a guided journey through your career transition, whether you're just starting to contemplate a change or you are already in the midst of uncertainty and upheaval.


Each week, a new module drops, packed with pre-recorded videos, reference materials, and interactive exercises designed to help you reflect, ideate, and rewrite your career story. You’ll be engaging in storytelling practices that bring clarity to where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re going.


Think of this as a “choose your own adventure” experience. Everything is optional, and you can engage at your own pace. If life gets busy and you can’t make the weekly live cohort sessions with your peers and me, it's ok! You’ll still gain plenty from the recorded materials and exercises. But if you do join, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, explore insights, and connect with others who are navigating their own transitions.


This course is fully experiential: what you put in is what you’ll get out. The exercises will challenge you to dig deep, reframe limiting narratives, and build resilience. Some weeks might be uncomfortable, but that’s part of the growth. The cohort offers a built-in community, a space where you’ll see that you’re not alone in this messy, complex process.


By the end of the course, you’ll have a stronger sense of agency, a clearer narrative, and practical tools to move forward with confidence. Ready to step into your next chapter? Let’s begin, together.

Who is this course for

01

Those who are wanting a promotion or wondering what's next.

02

Those navigating role transitions or layoffs.

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Those who feel stuck, overlooked or unsupported in their careers.

Reclaim your narrative, process change, and build resilience for your next chapter through storytelling.

Leverage the Hero’s Journey to navigate career change

Apply a powerful storytelling framework to understand where you are in your transition and what’s ahead.

Explore your narrative and create momentum

Honor what you’re leaving behind, process emotions, and create space for new opportunities.

Manage through uncertainty

Learn tools and micro-practices to stay grounded, adaptive, and confident in times of ambiguity.

Analyze your inner saboteurs

Identify the voices of doubt holding you back and transform them into allies for growth.

Become the author of your story

Shift from feeling lost to owning your career transition by reframing your past experiences and shaping your next chapter with intention.

What’s included

Shawn Carney

Live sessions

Learn directly from Shawn Carney in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

3 live sessions • 7 lessons • 8 projects

Week 1

Apr 21—Apr 27

    Module 1: Honoring the past

    3 items

    Apr

    25

    Getting started

    Fri 4/257:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 2

Apr 28—May 4

    Module 2: Reclaiming your narrative

    3 items

    May

    2

    Sense making

    Fri 5/27:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 3

May 5—May 11

    Module 3: Cultivating resilience in the now

    3 items

Week 4

May 12—May 18

    Module 4: Envisioning the future and taking aligned action

    3 items

    May

    16

    Bring it all together

    Fri 5/167:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 5

May 19

    Closing: Moving forward with confidence

    2 items

Bonus

    Bonus material

    1 item

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Meet your instructor

Shawn Carney

Shawn Carney

Leadership coach with 25+ years of experience guiding careers through change.

I led technology teams at Etsy, Spotify, Universal Music Group, and EMI Music for two decades. Over the years, the parts that resonated most for me were being of service to people, creating and operationalizing strategy, problem-solving and fostering a culture of belonging where everyone could show up and flourish. 

 

Connecting with the impact that matters most to me is what brought me to coaching. Now I work alongside people navigating transitions and support them in doing so with intention and courage.

I believe leadership is a lifelong journey for everyone, and I’m here to help you discover the courage to be who you want to be and create the life you want to lead. Together, we’ll stretch your sightlines, venture out of your comfort zone, and grow in ways that transform your career and your life.

 

As a trained Co-Active coach (ACC and CPCC certifications in progress), I guide clients through life’s complexities using a framework that fosters growth, self-discovery, and purpose. I create spaces for belonging, deep connection, and transformative change, drawing on my experiences as a leader, artist, and human who knows the power of resilience.​

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I'm also a hospice volunteer and am in training to become a death doula. The end of life is a transition that we all experience, both personally and through the passing of those we love. If you are working through grief, know that you don't have to do so alone.

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Career transitions aren’t one-time events. They’re an ongoing part of life.


And, resilience isn’t just about bouncing back. It’s about adapting, growing, and staying connected to your core self no matter what changes arise. It’s about returning to yourself, again and again, with kindness, reflecting on what you’re learning, and integrating that into who you are becoming.

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Learning is better with cohorts

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Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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