How to Create a Role That Doesn't Exist Yet: One Senior Leader's Career Change After Burnout

Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search · Jun 26, 2026 · 14m

Hayley Lowe had a textbook career pivot from her communications degree and agency life to a senior leadership role at a company like Expedia. Everything was going according to plan until burnout, infertility, a pandemic, and one very wrong Fortune 500 job forced her to rebuild from scratch.

What she found on the other side wasn't a posted role. It was one she designed herself.

Through coaching, she built an Ideal Career Profile that made it obvious why her last job had been wrong and exactly what right would look like.

In this episode, Hayley shares what it took to trust her gut sooner, how…