Who I Help
High-achieving people who have exited a successful career or business but need help deciding what is worth pursuing next.
You built something real: a career, a business, a reputation, or a body of work. But something in you has shifted. You want something more, something meaningful. Not just retirement. You have opportunities but you are uncertain which opportunity is right for you now.
Life After Career
You have left, or are preparing to leave, a senior role. Retirement does not feel like the full answer.
Life After Business
You built and possibly exited a business. You want what comes next to offer more balance, meaning, and personal connection.
Life In Transition
An unexpected change has altered how you see yourself, your work, or the future you were building toward.
Successful But Uncertain
You still have ambition and options, but no longer know which possibilities genuinely feel right.
Feeling Uncertain about what's Worth Pursuing?
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What opportunities actually fit me now?
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Who am I without my old title or role?
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What kind of life do I want to build next?
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How do I define success now and why?
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What gives me a sense of meaning and purpose?
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What assumptions am I making because of my previous identity?
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What business or career model fits the life I want?
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How do I trust that I'm making the right decision?
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How can I test it without committing years to finding out if its right?
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What's the smartest sequence for bringing it into the world?
Clarity. Momentum.
Personalized Guidance.
You built real success. A rewarding career. A successful business. Your old life provided deadlines, priorities, colleagues, feedback, status, and a steady stream of problems to solve. Your old identity has fallen away. You are becoming someone new, wanting something new and trying to figure out what is worth pursuing next.
You have numerous possibilities but you are not the same person who built your last success. You have evolved and you want your next chapter to offer more meaning and purpose.
You are stuck between knowing what you don't want but uncertain about what is meaningful and worth pursuing next.
Before you spend months chasing a direction, you need to figure out what’s actually worth building. I created a methodology to do just that, based on my own next chapter journey. It's called RECLAIM. It is a structured approach designed to help navigate the blind spots that often come with building a next chapter:
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Identify Who You Are Now: what you offer beyond your former title and professional success.
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Define success for the next phase: income, impact, autonomy, learning, lifestyle, relationships, or legacy.
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Prioritize options: distinguishing genuinely attractive paths from options that merely preserve status.
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Test possibilities safely: through advisory expeditions, board roles, mentoring, teaching, or short-term consulting before making a major commitment.
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Build a new personal operating system: including structure, relationships, routines, and accountability.
Starting with a stronger sense of self-awareness provides the foundation for answering; what is worth building next.
RECLAIM helps separate the person from the roles and expectations accumulated through success. It combines self-authority work with practical exploration so future decisions can be based on evidence, alignment, and real-world viability.
One-on-One Guidance
The Clarity You Need To Make The Right Decisions
You have no shortage of possibilities, but that also makes it harder to judge which ones are worth pursuing. My guidance and 25+ years of global leadership guide you through the uncertainty that emerges after a major career, business, or life transition.
I’ll help you find stability in who you are becoming now, clarity in what opportunities are right for you, and certainty in how to chart a path forward towards a next chapter that brings you greater fulfillment.
Turn Uncertain Options
Into A Clear Path
How does an accomplished person determine what should come next when the identity, ambitions and definitions of success that defined them no longer does?
In order to clearly understand which of the many possibilities are worth exploring, you first must have a clear understanding of who you are now, your values, and how you define success.
My approach is anchored in a fundamental belief: Reconnect the person first, before constructing the next chapter.
Having greater self-awareness becomes the lens by which all decisions for what to do next are measured. When you know what aligns to your values, the right direction and the right decisions become clear. The action you take in that direction feels exciting, aligned and meaningful.
A Structured Process To Determine
What Is Worth Pursuing Next
Advisory Shaped By Experience
After nearly three decades in global creative leadership, I reached a transition where much of what had defined me no longer did.
What followed was a period of identity loss, psychological study, creative exploration, and entrepreneurial experimentation. I learned that understanding yourself intellectually is not enough to get you through the tough parts and on to your next chapter. You also need experiences that reveal who you are when the old role is no longer directing your choices.
That insight became the foundation of RECLAIM.
My role is that of a personal advisor. I bring an outside perspective, challenge assumptions, recognize patterns, and help you evaluate what is worth carrying forward, releasing, or building next.
This work requires time, honesty, and a willingness to test possibilities beyond reflection alone. I provide the structure and perspective needed to keep moving when the answers are not immediately obvious.
Results That Give You
A Clear Path Forward
My approach combines private strategic advisory with creative experiences designed to help accomplished people reconnect with themselves, explore what is possible and make better decisions about what comes next. My role is not to provide you with all the answers, but to create the conditions in which you can recognize them on your own.
One-on-One: While most life coaches or executive coaching programs may offer cohorts and group sessions for finding your purpose, I offer personalized one-on-one advisory. This provides greater focus and dedication to your specific needs that can't be experienced in a cohort setting.
Structured Guidance: Using my proprietary methodology Reclaim™, your progress is focused on three core phases: Identity Decoupling, Realignment, and Next Chapter Construction. Through constant and constructive support, Kevin is alongside you every step of the way.
Accountability That Works: It's easy to start but it's more difficult to keep going when things get uncomfortable or uncertain. It's easy to fall back into old patterns and do what you've always done. I am here to support you and prevent that from happening.
A Guide For Navigating Who You Were to Who You Are
In Whose Ladder Is This?, former global executive and creative director Kevin Simcock shares a raw, honest account of what happens when achievement no longer aligns with identity.
Part memoir, part guidebook, this is not a story of burnout or breakdown. It’s a story of rediscovery. Through vulnerable storytelling, insight-rich reflection, and hard-won clarity, Kevin walks you through the messy but necessary process of letting go of who you thought you had to be, so you can step into the version of yourself that was waiting all along.
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What's Next After Success Podcast
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Honest Conversations For Rebuilding Who you Are & What's next
What's Next After Success Is for accomplished professionals who have built success but want to move beyond the version of them that created it. Each episode explores the realities of reconnecting with your purpose, sense of self and what's next.
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