Renew
with Ros Handley, The Renewal Specialist
Moving through change with confidence and renewed purpose
Ros Handley
The Renewal Specialist
Qualified Career Transition Coach
Experienced wellbeing & change navigator
Hello
I'm Ros Handley.
My expertise builds on a combination of professional and life experience, formal study and research, and a passion for thriving making our time count.
Past experience ...
Throughout my career, I have served as a trusted advisor to decision-makers in corporate, not-for-profit and public sector roles.
I have a Master Degree in Public Policy and Management and served as a Non-Executive Director on a health sector board.
I have held roles in driving and evaluating reform in the emergency management sector. I have facilitated strategic planning and risk workshops. I have been involved in workplace change. I understand the type of challenges leaders and their teams face during change.
In some of these roles, I also served as a workplace coach, a mentor or peer supporter, complemented by the relevant professional development training. .
I had also been helping people develop their careers through goal-setting aligned to the organisation's business plan and through the job search and recruitment process. I later studied to become a qualified Career Transition Coach.
I have witnessed and researched the experience of those in senior professional roles when change affects their identity and shifts their place in the world.
I have personally witnessed the severe health effects of stress and burnout.
Based on my wealth of experience and research, I have developed a framework for successfully navigating change.
My Catalyst for Change
It often takes a catalyst relating to personal or work life to shift our perspective and our priorities. For me, the catalyst was a cancer diagnosis in 2018.
There’s nothing like conversations with doctors about your life expectancy, to sharpen your focus on what’s important to you.
In shock, I discovered the status quo was no longer an option. I made a number of significant changes to my life in the years that followed. I learned to successfully navigate various forms of change – workplace change, lifestyle change, and my own career transition.
One of the most important things I learned from the cancer experience was to spend my time in ways that are meaningful to me. And now here I am, encouraging others to do the same.
In my life and my work, I’ve chosen to focus on the concept of renewal because it provides a sense of positive energy, inspiration, progress and wellbeing.
Renewal is a natural phenomenon, as part of the natural cycle of the seasons. It applies well to this era of increasing longevity with so many options for how we live and work, and greater choice about the role of work in our life at various stages.
Whatever the catalyst for change may be for you, I provide human experience, human connection and human-generated resources. I provide structure for your thinking, exploring and planning to enable you to move forward feeling more confident, more energised and ultimately, more fulfilled.
Let me know if you want to chat about where you're at.
Ros