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Outplacement Your Departing Employees Will Actually Use

When you’re guiding people through a workforce transition, a severance check and a resume rewrite aren’t enough. The Essential Professional Method gives your departing employees a proven path to identify their value and move forward with confidence, and protects the brand you’ve spent years building.

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The Old Playbook Doesn't Fit the People You're Losing

You already know the support you can offer right now isn’t good enough. The legacy outplacement model was designed decades ago around resume writing, job boards, and group workshops, for a workforce that no longer exists.

It treats a 25-year veteran the same as someone two years out of school, which sends exactly the wrong signal to the people who gave you the most. It does nothing to address what’s actually disrupting your workforce: AI, automation, and a market that has changed faster than the programs meant to support it.

And the people still in the building are watching. How you treat colleagues on the way out becomes a statement about the company to everyone who stays. Done poorly, transition support damages your employer brand more than it helps. This isn’t a critique of doing right by your people. It’s a critique of a model that no longer does.

A Modern Alternative, Built on a Proven Method

The Essential Professional Method licenses the same four-phase method from Becoming Essential to your organization, delivered to departing employees as a credible, modern alternative to traditional outplacement.

Instead of teaching people to reformat a resume, it teaches them to identify the value technology cannot replace and articulate it in a changed market. It was built by a former Chief Transformation Officer for exactly the experienced professionals legacy outplacement serves worst.

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Built to Fit How You Already Work

The method is designed to slot into what you already do, with minimal lift for your team.

  • Integrates with your existing severance package.
  • Delivered to employees at or shortly after their last day.
  • Access codes provided to HR for simple distribution.
  • Onboarding support for your organization throughout.
  • Reporting on engagement and outcomes, so you can see the impact.

From First Call to Deployment

What This Looks Like in Practice

"Laureen's gift to us is twofold. She trains her decades of corporate transformation experience to the task of career (and life) reevaluation, bringing all of that rigor and strength of execution to the principles and tools that she provides. Equally valuable, she weaves in her own story with its challenges and vulnerable moments, and models how to keep taking another step when feeling immobilized or lost. Becoming Essential is the book worth reading before you need it."
Jay UngerlandVP Operations
"Becoming Essential is the clarity professionals need in a world of constant change. I've watched Laureen rise to the C-suite, where she helped organizations navigate transformation, and she brings that same strategic insight to this book. Her exercises helped me quickly reposition my value in a shifting market. If you're reinventing your career, start here."
Kathy MacDonald Global Program Leader & Strategic Process Architect
"It’s no surprise that Laureen’s book, Becoming Essential, is all about reinvention and transformation. That’s her superpower. Throughout her career, she has helped leaders and teams navigate change and unlock value for their businesses. She’s the ultimate connect-the-dots master. Now she’s sharing that knowledge with us through this enlightening book, helping executives reposition their skillsets to align with the AI-accelerated workforce – and more importantly identify the value they deliver."
Jennifer StevensDirector of Communications

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Speaking

Bring Laureen to your leadership team or event.

The Training Program

The same method for individuals

The Book

Becoming Essential, the method in self-directed form.

Resources & Podcast

Practical thinking on the future of work.

Questions, Answered

Legacy outplacement was built around resume writing and job boards for a different workforce. The Essential Professional Method is built for a market reshaped by technology, and designed specifically for mid-to-senior professionals rather than treating everyone the same. It is licensed per seat and delivered as a guided program, not a generic workshop.

The return shows up in three places: a faster, more confident transition for departing employees, protected engagement and trust among the people who stay, and an employer brand that holds up through difficult change. Traditional outplacement is often purchased to manage liability; this is purchased because it works, and because the people who stay are watching how the people who leave are treated.

How a company treats people on the way out is remembered, by departing employees, by the team that remains, and by future candidates. Offering a credible, modern program signals genuine investment in your people, which protects the reputation you carry into every future hire.

Inadequate support carries hidden costs: lower trust and engagement among remaining employees, reputational and legal exposure, and the loss of institutional knowledge and goodwill. The cost of a transactional response is rarely calculated until it shows up in morale and employer brand.

Organizations license the Becoming Essential Training Program on a per-seat basis and distribute access to departing or transitioning employees. Pricing scales with volume, and the program integrates with your existing severance and offboarding process.