Put yourself in the strongest position for what’s next.
Moving up. Gone flat. Starting again.
Wherever you are, the question is the same: what do you offer, and where does it go next? Bearings works it out with you, in two weeks, at a fixed price, mostly through work you do yourself.
You’ll recognise one of these.
Still in the role, but flat. The work gets done. Nobody would call it a problem. But you have stopped growing into the job and started shrinking to fit it, and you know it.
You can see the end of this chapter. Not this year, maybe. But the shape of the next few years in this role is already familiar, and something in you has started asking what comes after.
Out, or on your way out. Redundancy, an exit, a decision. Now the profile has to carry you, the network is asking what you are doing next, and you do not have a clean answer yet.
Senior people with real careers behind them.
Most in their fifties. Directors, functional leaders, long-serving specialists, people coming out of big roles. You have done serious work. You are not lost. You are between reads on yourself.
Not for you if you are after interview technique, a CV formatting service, or someone to tell you everything happens for a reason. There are good providers for all three. This is not one of them.
Three things, in order.
Bearings is a short, structured piece of work. Not months of sessions. Not a course. You do most of it yourself, on your own time, over a couple of weeks.
What you carry. Not your job titles. The capability underneath them, including the parts you quietly dropped over the years because they did not fit the role.
Where it points. The realistic next moves, weighed honestly. A role, a portfolio, a change of direction. You choose one.
How you show up. Your positioning and your profile, rewritten to sell what you actually offer instead of what you used to be paid for.
You finish with a decision made
and a profile that backs it.
Honest, specific, slightly uncomfortable.
The Signal is where Bearings starts. Seven questions, five minutes, free. In return, a short read of the gap between what your profile is selling and what the market would actually pay you for. A real example, name removed:
Your headline sells the last role. “Operations Director. 20+ years in logistics.” Reliable, senior, and interchangeable with a thousand others. The market stopped paying a premium for reliable at your level some time ago.
What people actually ring you for is different. Untangling operations that have outgrown their systems. That is scarcer, it is worth more, and it appears nowhere on your page.
You are hiding the wrong thing.
Fixed price. Defined output. No open-ended anything.
Bearings — £195
The full structured programme, self-guided. The instruments, the workbook, the sequence. You do the work, the work does the excavating. Finish with your read, your decision, and your rewritten positioning.
Bearings + Working Session — £595
Everything in Bearings, plus ninety minutes with me once you have done the work. You arrive already excavated. My job is the part that is hard to do alone: naming the edge you have been underplaying, pressure-testing the direction, sharpening the positioning until it holds. One session. No retainer, no follow-on pitch.
I read what people actually offer.
I am Magnus Wood. Over 25 years in senior commercial roles: CMO and board director in a PE-backed firm, MD of a 200-person business, a career spent reading what companies and people actually offer versus what they say they offer.
I have made this move myself more than once. I made it again recently, in my fifties, so the questions Bearings asks are ones I have had to answer with my own name on the line. This is that work, made structured and repeatable.
The short answers.
Is this coaching?
No. There is structured work you do yourself and, if you choose, one working session. Nobody holds space. We work something out.
How long does it take?
Most people finish inside two weeks, working in the gaps. The session, if you take it, comes at the end.
What if I already know what I want to do next?
Then Bearings makes the case for it sharper. The positioning work is worth it on its own. But most people who arrive certain discover the certainty was covering the question.
What do I actually get?
A structured read of what you offer, a decision on direction, and rewritten positioning: headline, profile, and the one-paragraph answer to “so what are you doing now?”
Start with the Signal.
Seven questions. Five minutes. An honest read of what your profile is selling and what the market is buying. Free.
No call. No pitch. The read arrives by email.