I’m Jan Shaw, a Conscious Living Mentor & Strategic Advisor who supports capable mid-life people navigating the point where life may still look right from the outside but no longer feels true in the same way.

I’m Jan Shaw, a Conscious Living Mentor & Strategic Advisor who supports capable mid-life people navigating the point where life may still look right from the outside but no longer feels true in the same way.

My work challenges the familiar idea that midlife has to be about reinventing yourself. Often, the next chapter is not something we need to invent from scratch. The clues have been accumulating throughout our lives — in recurring values and strengths, the roles we naturally play, the challenges that have shaped us, and the ways we affect other people.

I help people recognise that deeper thread, understand the direction their experience has already been revealing, and define the conditions in which they can embody the role that is ready to emerge.

My approach combines reflective conversation, intuitive insight and grounded strategic thinking. I’m especially interested in how clarity develops in waves, with one layer of understanding making the next visible, rather than through pressure to produce an instant answer.

Before becoming a coach and mentor, I had a successful corporate career in IT, programme management and business consultancy. I now bring that strategic perspective together with more than twenty years of coaching, personal development and lived experience of significant life transitions.

I’m a certified Life & Executive Coach, with wider training including MBTI, Human Design, NLP Coaching, Time Line Therapy™ and Hypnotherapy.

I also have experience on the other side of the microphone, having hosted interviews on Big Talk Radio and Cosmic Reality Radio. That means I understand what makes a good conversation for both the host and the audience.

At the heart of my work is a simple idea: midlife is not necessarily asking us to become somebody new. It may be asking us to recognise more fully who we have been becoming all along.