Coaching and Courses for Career Transitions
Practical support for a career identity crisis — and for those simply questioning what's next.
Explore with intention
- Baillie Aaron, founder
the personal story
I built Being in Between because when I needed support with my career transition, it didn't exist.
There have been several moments in my life when the answer to 'what do you want to do?' wasn't obvious. One was leaving a defined post-graduate pathway and stable job to leap into the unknown as an entrepreneur. I learned through experimentation what would give me meaning and purpose.
The most significant was a forced transition: a serious injury that took me out of work for several years and completely dismantled the professional identity I had spent a decade constructing.
Both experiences taught me the same thing. The external change — leaving a job, losing a role, exiting a company — is not the hardest part. What's much more challenging is the internal process: grief for the future that is no longer possible, confusion over who we believe ourselves to be, and an inability to articulate our story cohesively.
I have spent 20 years exploring career transitions: through practice, research, and immersion in multiple disciplines.
Your dream role might be one you don't even know exists yet. Being In Between provides a structured roadmap for navigating that uncertainty — until you find a direction that feels exciting, purposeful, and right.
An Unusual Range
From people leaving prison
to global leaders
And many in between.
I began my career working with people leaving prison, supporting them to find purpose and direction post-release despite extreme constraints. Through the two organisations I founded, Spark Inside (UK) and Venturing Out (USA), I observed something that shaped a core belief: the capacity for genuine self-discovery is not determined by background, education, or circumstance.
Over the past decade, I have coached accomplished achievers feeling unfulfilled at the pinnacle of success; postgraduate students navigating family pressures to accept roles they don't want; humanitarian professionals leaving mission-driven careers feeling burnt out; founders exiting their companies and questioning their worth; and professionals whose careers have been disrupted by forces outside their control. Different contexts, but the same underlying process.
The Approach
Rigorous, interdisciplinary —
and more fun than you'd expect.
It will help you find yourself.
Behavioural science and psychology
The evidence base for how people actually change — not how they think they do.
Philosophy and life design
Deeper questions of meaning and purpose, drawing on ancient frameworks and contemporary methodology.
Narrative and identity
Helping people articulate the story of who they were, are, and are becoming.
Mythology, art, and literature
Because liminality is not a new concept, and our ancestors mapped it before we did.