How to Redefine Your Mindset and Structure for Business Success After Corporate Life Featuring Thomas Bertels
Update: 2025-06-30
Description
Thomas Bertels is a business transformation expert on a mission to make work more productive, valuable, meaningful, and impactful. He has three decades of experience helping companies—from start-ups to Fortune 5—transform how work gets done.
In today’s episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how to overcome an identity shift when leaving a long corporate career and build a business that delivers lasting results for yourself and your clients.
Thomas and I discuss:
- Why leaving a decades-long career can feel like an identity crisis [01:43 ]
- The most important mindset shift when going solo [02:48 ]
- How to create routines and structure for success [03:28 ]
- Managing expectations and accepting imperfection [04:08 ]
- The power of narrowing your niche and building a signature framework [07:09 ]
- How Thomas helps leaders and teams boost productivity [10:22 ]
- Where opportunities and resistance show up in organizational change [14:03 ]
- The importance of community—whether you’re solo or part of a team [18:59 ]
- Practical examples of harnessing team energy for solutions [20:10 ]
Learn more about Thomas at https://linktr.ee/purposeworks
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