If you are reading this, you probably recognise at least one of these:

You are good at your job. You hit your targets, you deliver for clients, and on paper everything looks fine. But privately something has shifted.

You are tired of doing work that someone else owns. You want to be the person driving the outcome, not advising on it. You have watched strategies you built get handed over and executed by someone else, and you are ready for that to stop.

You are also not sure your experience translates. You worry that consulting has made you too theoretical. That industry hiring managers will look at your CV and see someone who advises rather than someone who does. That leaving means stepping backwards.

And you have probably tried applying. And heard very little back.

That is not a capability problem. It is a positioning problem. And it is fixable.

My Story:

I spent 8 years at EY across London and Sydney. I was good at my job, I progressed through the ranks, and I had the title and the salary to show for it.

But I was exhausted. The hours were relentless, the work felt increasingly disconnected from anything I truly owned, and I had a quiet fear that if I ever left consulting I would not know how to present what I had actually built.

In 2024 I was made redundant. The decision was made for me.

What followed changed how I understood the whole transition. I stopped trying to present myself as a well-rounded consultant and started positioning myself as someone who had delivered specific commercial outcomes.

Five weeks later I had a signed offer for a senior industry role. Matched salary. Forty percent fewer hours. Work that finally felt like mine to own.

I built the Stealth Exit Protocol from that experience — a structured system for making this transition deliberately rather than by accident.

A bit about me beyond the professional story:

I moved from the UK to Sydney six years ago so I understand firsthand what it means to navigate a career in a new market. The gym has been a constant throughout the consulting years and beyond — it is how I start or end most days and how I stayed sane during the harder periods. And I travel whenever I can, which was one reason I wanted a different kind of working life in the first place.