Navigating Careers & Beyond

The Life Portfolio

New Directions is The Life Portfolio Company. We help accomplished people in business and the professions make the right next move or create the right opportunity—within and beyond careers.
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Success Stories

Henry Schmelzer

The year I turned 55, I decided I wanted to harness the skills I'd developed as a financial sector business leader on a second career in public service. With invaluable coaching at New Directions plus my own sense of mission, I was fortunate to be appointed head of a statewide agency devoted to improving the quality of life in Maine. This gave me the privilege and rare opportunity to achieve my goal.
Henry L.P. Schmelzer
 

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  Life Portfolio Careers For Organizations The Book  

A Life Portfolio is a mix of pursuits that reflect your individual assets, values and goals at every stage of life. It turns careers into callings. Learn how you can design your own plan to integrate work, family and financial needs into a larger search for purpose and meaning.

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Many New Directions clients seek to assume a new full-time leadership position. Our career programs are unmatched in terms of our exclusive focus on executive leaders, our experience and our network of blue chip contacts.

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Want to invest in a more engaged, productive team? Sponsoring leaders as New Directions clients benefits companies or organizations several ways. These include retaining knowledge, planning for succession and mining hidden strengths in your human capital. Take care of your talent.

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Cover by Dave Corbett
In his popular book, the founder of New Directions describes the many changes reshaping careers and the human lifespan, and he offers readers a new way of thinking to help master them.

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