Who Are You Now,
Without The Title?
You spent years, maybe decades building your career, your reputation, and your sense of self. Then the exit happened. And none of what your identity was built on fits anymore.
The anchor is gone. What you build next needs a new one. That's the work.
I've been where you are. I'll help you rebuild on a solid foundation that is aligned to who you are now so what comes next fits you.
For nearly three decades as a global business leader, I built success and made significant sacrifice to obtain it. Just like you. Then after being furloughed from my executive role after turning 50, I was suddenly in a situation where everything I had built was gone. I chose to turn down an offer with another global company and follow my inner calling to building my own future.
I lost everything I thought defined me, all at once. I had to figure out who I was without it. That combination taught me to see patterns and blindspots most coaches, consultants and mentors miss and find the real underlying issue.
I work at the intersection of identity, psychology and human behaviour. My approach is personal and bespoke because the real issue is almost never where it first appears, and traditional approaches are not built to find it.
If you've experienced a significant transition and you find yourself feeling stuck, empty or uncertain on who you are now and what to do next, let's connect.
The Cost of Ignoring What You're Feeling
Relationships
Your identity was tied to what you did. Everyone around you knows you by your old title. When you don't know who you are anymore, genuine connection becomes the hardest thing to find.
Identity
The longer you perform a version of yourself that does not fit, the harder it becomes to remember who you actually are underneath it. That gap does not close on its own.
Time
Every month spent chasing the wrong answer is a month not spent finding the right one. This is not a problem that resolves itself with another achievement.
Your Identity Was Built On Achievements
That No Longer Apply
I know this because I lived it. Nearly three decades building Fortune 500 brands taught me a lot about success and leadership. None of it prepared me for the moment it was all gone.
At 50 I was furloughed from a global leadership role I had spent decades building. Before I could process that, my wife was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. I spent the next year as her caregiver. Then my mother was diagnosed with cancer. Then dementia. Then I lost her. All in just 18 months. My entire life was upside down. Who I was became replaced with a new version of me.
Through all of it I wrote a book. Not because I had answers. Because I was trying to find them.
What came out of that period was a completely different understanding of how to find a truer sense of identity that doesn't rely on or require achievement to validate it. That despite our previous success and titles, we are able to establish a new inner anchor from which to build on.
That is what I bring to this work. Not theory. Experience.
The Manual for when success stops feeling like success
In Whose Ladder Is This?, former global executive and creative strategist 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 awakening. 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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Underneath The Title Podcast
Honest Conversations For Executives Rebuilding Who They Are Without The Title
Underneath The Title Is for executives who have exited a career or business and feel a sense of identity loss. Each episode goes deeper than the achievement to find what's actually going on underneath it.
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