Upcoming Workshops

Level up your career with hands-on workshops led by outdoor industry experts.

What Do You Actually Want?:

Build a job search around what matters to you now.

Stop doomscrolling job boards waiting for the perfect job to appear.

Your next chapter isn’t necessarily something you find. It’s something you choose, and you may already know more about what you want than you think.

In this interactive 90-minute Career Collective workshop, outdoor industry leader and Co-Active coach Kelly Neel will help you step outside job titles and get back in touch with who you are, what matters most to you, and what you bring.

Through guided reflection and mindset work, you’ll explore the experiences that have brought out your best, clarify your values, and begin noticing what gives you energy and what drains it with curiosity instead of judgment.

From there, you’ll start building your own criteria for career fit: the roles, organizations, environments, and ways of working that align with what matters to you now.

You don’t need to leave with your entire career figured out. The goal is to leave with a clearer compass for where you might go next and one or two concrete steps you feel ready to take.

Who It’s For

You know something about your career needs to change. The harder question is: what do you want instead?

This workshop is for people who feel ready for a different chapter but aren’t yet sure what that chapter looks like.

You might be:

Burned out. You’re good at what you do and running on empty. You can’t picture continuing to climb the same ladder, but starting over feels impossible.

Laid off or between roles. You have a rare opportunity to choose what comes next, and you don’t want to automatically land the same job somewhere else.

Quietly unfulfilled. On paper, your career is working. But you keep wondering, “Is this all there is?”

You don’t need to know what you want to do next. You just need to be curious about what might fit you better.

You’ll Learn How To

Get clearer on your value. Identify what you actually bring, including strengths and experience you may have stopped noticing, and begin putting that value into words you can use.

Define what fits you now. Clarify the values, environments, roles, organizations, and ways of working that matter to you at this stage of your career.

Notice what gives and takes your energy. Look at the experiences that bring out your best and the conditions that consistently drain you, without judging either.

Build your career-fit criteria. Create your own set of priorities and non-negotiables to help you evaluate opportunities instead of simply reacting to whatever jobs appear.

Expand what you think is possible. Consider roles, organizations, and directions you may not have explored before.

Leave with the next step. Identify one or two concrete moves you feel ready to make rather than leaving with a vague plan to “explore more.”

Participants will also receive Kelly’s Trailmap, a worksheet designed to help capture their thinking during the workshop and continue the exploration afterward.

Coach Spotlight

Kelly Neel is a Career Transformation Coach with more than 20 years of leadership experience in the outdoor industry, including at REI, where she led innovative retail concepts and customer experiences from strategy through execution.

She specializes in helping emerging and mid-career professionals uncover career paths that better align with their strengths, values, passions, and goals. As a certified Co-Active coach, Kelly helps clients move from uncertainty to clarity, translate that clarity into actionable next steps, and stay accountable as they build what comes next.

Kelly’s approach is grounded in the Co-Active model, which views people as naturally creative, resourceful, and whole, and emphasizes a holistic approach to personal and professional development.