A Purpose-driven Framework for Letting Go, Planning Ahead, and Designing What’s Next.

What if your job ended tomorrow? What’s your plan? Don’t wait—get ahead with the Career Funeral Toolkit.

WHY it matters:

Today’s work environment is volatile—AI, restructuring, and job insecurity are redefining careers in real-time.

Even high performers can get blindsided. The Career Funeral™ helps people build career insurance:

  • Prevent regret

  • Increase self-awareness

  • Prepare for pivots before they become urgent

  • Realign work with purpose

WHAT:

A strategic self-reflection and reinvention toolkit that helps professionals proactively assess, release, and redesign their careers before change forces them to.

It’s not about mourning a job. It’s about letting go of what no longer serves you so you can evolve with clarity, courage, and intention.

HOW it works:

The toolkit is built around the 4R Framework:

The Career Funeral™ Framework: A purpose-driven framework to navigate change with clarity, resilience, and confidence.

Rapport: Reconnect with your values, identity, and purpose

Release: Let go of outdated dreams, roles, or beliefs

Ready: Create your 5–1–1 plan (people, skills, options) to build readiness before disruption

Reinvent: Define your Career Declaration and 30–60–90 plan for the future

Who Is This For?

Whether you’re preparing, pivoting, or rebuilding—this framework meets you where you are.

🟩 The Planner
Employed and sensing change—wants to be ready.
🟦 The Seeker
In between roles—exploring what aligns with purpose.
🟥 The Rebuilder
Recently unemployed—rebuilding with clarity and hope.

It can also be used by People Leaders, HR, and Executive Coaches to integrate into:

  • Manager 1:1s

  • Offboarding & career transition programs

  • Talent development and internal mobility strategy

About the Creator

Dr. Richard Osibanjo is an author, keynote speaker, Forbes Columnist, executive coach, and transformational strategist. He’s coached Fortune 500 executives and helped thousands of professionals navigate career pivots, promotions, and purpose realignment.

This toolkit is based on over 10+ years of real coaching insights and personal experience with change.