WHEN YOUR NEXT MOVE ISN’T OBVIOUS
The first step forward is understanding what's changed.
Change Insight is a space for professional women navigating change in midlife when careers, responsibilities or priorities shift, and what worked before no longer quite fits.
WHERE CHANGE INSIGHT BEGAN
My Story
For more than 20 years, I’ve built a career inside complex organizations while navigating many of the same questions that I explore through Change Insight.
I’ve experienced the frustration of good work not always leading to opportunity. I’ve watched colleagues advance while trying to understand what I hadn’t yet learned. I’ve had seasons of clarity and seasons when the path ahead felt much less certain.
Life has happened alongside all of it. Responsibilities changed. Priorities shifted. I became a caregiver. And there were times when the expectations I’d built for myself no longer matched the capacity, circumstances, or even the person I was becoming.
Eventually, I learned to listen for opportunities presented by change:
Sometimes the challenge isn't working harder or finding the perfect plan. It's understanding what's changed.
Once you can see your situation more clearly (the system you’re operating in, what matters to you now, what is within your control, and what may need to change) you can make more intentional decisions about what comes next.
That’s the thinking behind Change Insight.
-Sherri Hillie
THE PERSPECTIVE BEHIND CHANGE INSIGHT
I’ve experienced change from both sides
ORGANIZATIONS
More than 20 years working inside complex organizations through transformation, talent, and leadership development, workforce transitions and large-scale change.
PEOPLE
Lived experience of navigating career decisions, changing priorities, caregiving, ambition, uncertainty and evolving definitions of success.
I understand the systems we navigate. And I’m equally interested in the people navigating them.
HOW I THINK ABOUT CHANGE
Choosing A Path of Intention
CLARITY
What is actually changing?
Slowing down to understand what’s happening, what matters now and what assumptions may need to be reconsidered.
CHOICE
Where do I have agency?
Considering the environment around you: relationships, opportunities, organizational dynamics, constraints, and possibilities.
RESILIENCE
What will sustain me?
Exploring capacity, boundaries, energy, and what you need to move forward without losing yourself in the process.
Sometimes you need a strategy. Sometimes you need to reconsider the goal. And sometimes you need enough breathing room to tell the difference.
QUESTIONS WORTH EXPLORING
Maybe you’re asking some of these too.
Do I want the next promotion?
How do I become more visible without becoming someone I’m not?
Is it time to leave, or is there another way to move forward where I am?
What if what worked before just doesn’t fit anymore?
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Different Questions
A Brighter Next Chapter
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What do I want now?
You don’t have to have the answer to start exploring the question.
THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE PERSPECTIVE
Professional Background
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Global organizational change
HR transformation
Talent & leadership development
Organizational development
Workforce transformation
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M.S. Organizational Development and Strategic Human Resources, Johns Hopkins University
Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching, Georgetown University
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Prosci Certified Change Practitioner
Korn Ferry Leadership Architecture
EQ-i 2.0 & EQ 360
A deeper understanding of people and systems helps us navigate change with more intention — and create a more meaningful next chapter.
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LIFE BEYOND THE RESUME
Grounding, Perspective, and What Matters
When I'm not working, you'll often find me on Maryland's trails. There's something about moving through nature that helps me think.
I'm also a caregiver — an experience that has taught me more about resilience, boundaries and sustainable energy than any professional training ever could. It continues to shape how I think about work, growth and change.
I'm still learning, too. And I believe meaningful change begins not with having everything figured out, but with becoming curious enough to see what's actually there.
Still Learning - Always Exploring