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Gain confidence to crush self-doubts and find your #ICAN.
Evidence-based workshops to build confident, resilient, and high-performing teams.
Your members have the talent, experience and credentials.
What they’re missing is the belief to execute decisively after layoffs,
during transitions, or in high-pressure moments.
This is where we rebuild that foundation.
The #ICAN Career Resilience Series
- 1. Rebuilding After Layoffs: The Mid-Career Confidence Reset
- 2. Self-Belief: Your Unfair Advantage in the AI Age
- 3. Staying Resilient in Uncertain Times: From ‘What If’ to ‘I Can’
For teams navigating retrenchment, restructuring, or career transitions.
The real challenge:
Job loss in mid-career impacts identity more than income. Extended unemployment arises from feelings of helplessness and shame, not lack of skills. Most support programs focus on job-search strategies, neglecting emotional impacts.
What this addresses:
- Rebuild identity and self-worth without seeking validation
- Overcome re-entry shame by communicating their value confidently
- Take action and build agency to break paralysis
- Offer emotional support that is often overlooked
What changes:
Members stop seeing themselves as obsolete. They interview with confidence and clarity on what they offer.
Ideal for: Union members facing layoffs, outplacement programs, career centers
For professionals navigating rapid change and automation anxiety.
The challenge:
Middle managers aged 40 to 50 fear they are “too old” or “too expensive.” The stress of relearning creates resistance to change, fostering fixed mindsets that affect teamwork. This fear leads to invisibility, disengagement, and low morale.
What this addresses:
- Reframe “too old” into “too experienced to ignore”
- Address relearning stress by building a Growth Mindset
- Overcome invisibility to contribute and lead
- Develop adaptive self-belief AI can’t replace
What changes:
Managers embrace change, improve morale, and enhance collaboration, becoming assets rather than liabilities.
Ideal for: Mid-career professionals, leadership programs, upskilling initiatives, teams navigating transformation
For teams under pressure, navigating change, or facing morale challenges.
The challenge:
Job insecurity creates a silo mindset, causing conflicts and hindering collaboration. Employees may withhold information, avoid projects, and mentally resign.
What this addresses:
- Break silo mindset by rebuilding trust and psychological safety
- Shift from survival mode to proactive contribution
- Address mental resignation by reigniting purpose and agency
- Cultivate lasting resilience beyond the workshop
What changes:
Teams collaborate rather than compete. Employees are re-engaged, contributing ideas and taking initiative. Performance improves when belief drives execution.
Ideal for: Teams facing change, high-pressure environments, post-layoff recovery, restructuring
Custom Programs
Tailored to your objectives—post-layoff support, leadership development, team resilience, change management.
Q2/Q3 2026 booking slots are now open.
Michael has a rare gift for helping individuals dig deep, confront their self-imposed limitations, and unlock the mindset needed for real breakthrough. Through his guidance, I believe my team was able to reflect honestly on their internal barriers and leave the room with renewed purpose, confidence, and clarity.
Siak Lim, Director, Financial Alliances
Thank you Michael for crafting a well-plan session which is not only insightful, engaging but also affordable and impactful! Please keep doing what you are doing! Highly recommended!
