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A guided career pivot programme for senior professionals, wherever you are

Life milestone? Thinking about a career change? Not sure where to begin?

Pirouette starts with the career you already have. The more history you bring, the sharper the questions get, and twelve weeks later you know what your next move is.

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Life milestones that shift a career

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71%feel nervous, overwhelmed or intimidated during a job transitionO.C. Tanner, 2025 Global Culture Report
74%of career changers have been thinking about it for a year or moreCareershifters, State of Career Change Report 2026
49%say a lack of good career advice has held their career backMIT Sloan research, 2023

Here is Pirouette. We help you make the turn.

Twelve weeks, from the first sense that something has shifted to knowing what you do next. You map the skills you already have, see realistic moves built around your real constraints, and work through it with a small group at the same crossroads and a coach.

A pirouette is a controlled spin. Not falling, not flailing. A deliberate turn.

You commit three things. Pirouette does the rest.

In the order you meet them. This is everything that goes in the diary.

15 minSkills Mirror conversation

Written for you. About thirty questions, drawn from career research and your own CV. Not just another chatbot. A structured set of questions, scored on scientific evidence and psychology methodologies. Works on your phone, so you can do it on the move.

3 x 30 minThree catch-ups with your cohort

Ninety minutes in total, spread across the twelve weeks, with the four of you. You pencil the dates together and re-time them when a week goes wrong.

MoreIf you want it, it is there

Coaches, mentors and your own network, on top of the two things above rather than instead of them. Book a coach when you want one, not on a schedule we set.

Everything else moves at your pace, wherever you are in the world.

How the career pivot programme works

Your next chapter is closer than you think, in five steps

Operations DirectortoOperations Partner at a fund

At 48, his title survived a new CEO's rebuild of the leadership team. The job he actually wanted did not. This is the move he is weighing.

Both situations are real, shared by people we know. The names and the photographs are not: those are placeholders, so the people behind the stories stay private.

Discover

You start by sharing your story: your CV, your constraints, your goals. Pirouette maps the context before anything else begins. Not what you think you should say, but what is actually true.

For Marc

Marc uploads a CV that reads as one long run at the same company, and writes down the constraint he has never said out loud: he will not move his family, and the next move has to hold his salary.

Skills Mirror

Your top ten skills, scored across function, leadership, presence and adaptability, each one backed by something you actually said. See where you are already strong, and where the next bit of work is.

For Marc

Twenty years of running operations comes back as four scores rather than one job title. The surprise is presence: the board exposure he had filed under admin is the strongest line on his Mirror.

Scenarios

Three pivot scenarios, built around your real constraints on hours, location, money and timing. Each shows which skills transfer, what is missing and the first move, who you already know there, and the latest roles on the main job boards. Add a scenario of your own if you have one.

For Marc

Three moves, all inside the commute he is willing to do: an operations partner seat at a mid market fund, a COO role at a scale up, and two non executive seats run as a portfolio. He keeps going back to the fund one.

Cohort

Pressure test the scenario you chose with an objective soundboard: a cohort of four, matched by hand, each at their own crossroads. Pirouette suggests the questions for you to tackle together. Three 30 minute catch-ups across the twelve weeks, at times the four of you pencil in.

For Marc

The other three are a hospital director, a founder winding a company down, and an engineer moving country. Not one of them works in operations, which is the point: they ask what his colleagues will not.

Discuss

Book an hour with a coach, and keep your own contacts in one place so you can find a warm path before you apply cold. When it is time to reopen an old conversation, Pirouette suggests the message to send.

For Marc

He books an hour with a coach who has sat on the fund side of the table, and finds two people already there in his own contacts. Pirouette drafts the note that reopens a conversation from 2019.

Mentors & professional network

Learn from people who have built careers at

NIKEGoogleACCENTURELVMH

Here is what Pirouette helps you do

Leave with a direction

A shortlist of realistic moves, ranked by what matters to you.

See the skills that transfer

Your Mirror surfaces the transferable skills you already have and are not counting.

Keep it entirely private

No employer dashboard, no manager view, no admin who can open your work. Swiss-hosted, GDPR-native.

Why we built this

Julie and Elselien, the two founders of Pirouette

Two careers, rebuilt more than once.

Between us: four maternity leaves, and careers rebuilt in a handful of countries. Every milestone, a new leadership team, a newborn, a move to follow love, led to the same question. What do I actually want next?

The answer always came from three places. Time to reflect on what we actually wanted, people to pressure test the options with, and a short list of mentors to prepare us. Pirouette is those three things, built so you do not need to already have them.

Julie & Elselien

Co-founders, Pirouette

Designed by humans, built with Claude

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What people ask before they start

Who is Pirouette for?
Senior professionals navigating a career change, typically around a life milestone: returning from maternity or paternity leave, moving abroad, coming back from a career break, or resetting after a leadership change. The whole diagnostic is written from your CV, so the more career history you bring the more specific the questions get. It is built for people with years behind them, not for a first job. And if there is no trigger at all, it is still a place to regularly reassess whether what you do still matches your values, your longer term ambitions and your priorities.
How long does the programme take?
An hour is enough to land your first real insights. What we saw with our beta testers is that twelve weeks is the sweet spot for a turn that actually holds, counted from the first sense that something is shifting through to being decision ready. Most of the work happens in short regular sessions with other people in the programme, and they are built to fit around a full job and a full life.
What actually happens in the twelve weeks?
Over twelve weeks, you move through five stages.
  1. Discover. Share your story, your CV, your constraints and your goals, so everything after this is built on what is actually true.
  2. Skills Mirror. A 15 minute conversation that maps your top ten skills and scores your function, leadership, presence and adaptability. It indicates both your strengths and your opportunities.
  3. Scenarios. Three realistic pivot scenarios built around your real constraints on hours, location, money and timing, plus any scenario you add yourself.
  4. Cohort. A cohort of four, matched by hand, each at their own crossroads, to pressure test the scenario you chose. Three 30 minute catch-ups across the twelve weeks.
  5. Discuss. Coaches, mentors and the people you already know, in one place, with the message to an old contact already suggested for you.
Is this coaching, or is it software?
It is both. The diagnostics and scenario modelling run on AI, but the strategy and the training behind them are entirely human led. Think of a dancer at the barre: the software is the barre, steady, consistent, and always there to hold you up. The coaches are the instructors in the room, correcting your posture, guiding your focus, and pushing your performance. Your accountability comes from a real cohort of peers, and your guidance comes from experienced mentors. By letting the software handle the mapping, human effort goes directly where it counts: making the decisions that matter.
What scientific research is the Skills Mirror based on?
The Skills Mirror is grounded in published research on careers, psychology and the labour market, across these areas: how work changed since 2020; how careers change; fit, strengths and energy; values and psychological flexibility; designing and testing a move; women's careers; changing career across countries; meaning and ikigai; labour market and European law; and coaching method. Ideas from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy shape how the conversation is run; Pirouette is coaching, not therapy. Julie and Elselien, Pirouette's founders, hand-selected every source, and for each one we write our own plain-language summary. Claude, Anthropic's AI model, is the infrastructure: it reads those summaries whenever it writes your questions, replies to you and scores your Skills Mirror. It is not trained on your answers. We keep adding sources as we find relevant new research. See the research.
Do I need to already know what I want to do next?
No. Most people arrive knowing only that something has to change. Working out what you actually want is the first half of the programme, not a prerequisite for joining.
How practical is it? Will it help me actually make the move?
It is built to be. Every scenario ends with a concrete first move, not a personality label. The moment you pick one, you can see who you already know in that field, through a LinkedIn search of your first- and second-degree connections, and open the latest roles on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Reed and Totaljobs. Those searches run on LinkedIn and the job sites themselves: we never see your connections and we do not run a job board. When it is time to get back in touch with someone, Pirouette suggests the message to send.
Can I do this while working full time?
Yes. The programme is built for people with no spare bandwidth, so the fixed commitment is small and it is written down. It starts with one 15 minute Skills Mirror conversation, which works on your phone, then three 30 minute calls with your cohort across the twelve weeks, ninety minutes in total, at times the four of you pencil together and re-time when a week goes wrong. Coach and mentor sessions are extra and are booked by you, when you want one, and each coach sets the length of their own. Everything else moves at your pace, wherever you are in the world.
Can my employer see any of this?
No. Pirouette accounts belong to you, not to your employer. There is no employer dashboard, no manager view and no admin access. If an organisation buys Pirouette access for its employees, all they ever see is the total number of activated accounts. They get no insight into your results, your data, your progress stage, your name, your scenarios or your conversations. And nobody at Pirouette reads your conversation either, we see your results, not your words. Your data is stored in Switzerland, and you can delete all of it at any time.
What does it cost?
Nothing right now. Pirouette is in beta, so the programme is free. What we ask in return is your detailed feedback, so the next cohorts get a better version than the one you used.
How do I install the Pirouette app?
You do not need an app store. Pirouette installs straight from the website onto your phone's home screen. On an iPhone, open mypirouette.co in Safari, not Chrome, tap the Share button in the bottom bar, then scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen. On Android, open mypirouette.co in Chrome, tap the three dots in the top corner and choose Install app. Either way it takes under a minute, and Pirouette then opens from your home screen like any other app.

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