Who This Is For
For accomplished people at a meaningful turning point
You built something real: a career, a business, a reputation, or a body of work. Now the role or definition of success that guided you may no longer fit.You are not finished. But before committing to another title, venture, or goal, you want to understand who you are now and what deserves your time next.
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 belong to you.
Why Figuring Out What's Next
Is So Difficult
The next decision begins with a deeper question
After decades of achievement, your professional role can become inseparable from your identity. Status, expertise, recognition, responsibility, and external validation all shape how you see yourself and what you believe you should pursue.
When the business is sold, the title disappears, retirement approaches, or success stops feeling meaningful, the obvious question is:
What should I do next?
RECLAIM begins earlier:
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Who am I without the role that previously defined me?
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What matters to me now?
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Which parts of my former success still belong in my life?
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What did I set aside while building it?
Only then does the strategic question become useful:
Given who I am now, what is worth building next?
RECLAIM helps separate the person from the roles and expectations accumulated through success. It combines identity work with practical exploration so future decisions can be based on evidence, alignment, and real-world viability.
One-on-One Guidance
Private advisory for a personal transition
Major transitions create more possibilities, but they also make it harder to judge which ones are worth pursuing. A personal advisor helps accomplished people examine the identity and decision-making questions that emerge after a major career, business, or life transition.
I provide a structured process, experienced outside perspective, and direct one-to-one guidance. Together, we examine the patterns shaping your decisions, test possible directions, and turn what you learn into a practical path forward.
Turning Possibilities
Into A Clear Path
How does an accomplished person determine what should come next when the identity, ambitions and definitions of success that created their previous chapter may no longer serve them?
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 detach from the significance, titles and decision patterns of past roles.
My approach is anchored in a fundamental belief: Reconnect the person before constructing the next chapter.
Having clarity in your identity becomes the lens by which all possibilities become measured for alignment. When you know what aligns to your values and who you are now, the right direction and the right decisions become clear. The action you take in that direction feels exciting, aligned and meaningful.
RECLAIM is built around three phases:
Identity Decoupling
Separate who you are from the roles, achievements, and expectations that have defined you.
Realignment
Determine what matters now and evaluate which possibilities fit your values, strengths, energy, and circumstances.
Next Chapter Construction
Translate the strongest direction into a viable real-world path.
Each phase can be explored through a dedicated three-month Expedition combining private advisory, structured reflection, creative experiences, and real-world experiments.
Three questions. Three Expeditions. One methodology.
Advisory Shaped By Experience
After nearly three decades in global creative leadership, I reached a transition where much of what had defined me disappeared.
What followed was a period of identity loss, psychological study, creative exploration, and lived experimentation. I learned that understanding yourself intellectually is rarely enough. 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
Hosted by: Kevin Simcock
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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