Forced Reset

Are you navigating an unexpected career transition? Whether facing job loss, organisational restructuring, or life circumstances that demand a pause, this practical guide helps you transform your professional setback into your greatest comeback. Forced Reset introduces the proven RESET Framework—a five-step system that guides you through every stage of your career transition with clarity, confidence, and purpose. WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER The RESET Framework will teach you how to recognise where you are and process the disruption without shame, evaluate your skills and authentic professional identity, strategise intentional capability development and sustainable systems, establish your professional comeback story and narratives, and transition strategically back to work while preserving your growth. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is written for professionals experiencing unexpected job loss or layoff, career sabbaticals and employment gaps, mid-career transitions and pivots, organisational restructuring or redundancy, and life circumstances requiring a career pause. If you're in the messy middle of a career transition, this book meets you where you are. WHAT'S INSIDE Each chapter delivers the complete RESET framework, including self-assessment tools, real-world experiences and honest reflections from the author's journey, and actionable worksheets you can apply immediately. You'll find strategies for managing the emotional journey of job loss, tools to craft compelling narratives about your career gap, guidance for intentional skill development during your sabbatical, and strategic re-entry planning that preserves your transformation. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leonora Mbithi is a mother of two daughters, a health systems strategist with 14+ years of experience, and a lifelong learner based in Nairobi. This book was born from her own experience navigating an unexpected career transition—written not from the distant perspective of someone who figured it all out years ago, but from the middle of the journey itself. YOUR CAREER COMEBACK STARTS HERE This isn't theory from hindsight. It's a practical roadmap being written in real-time, designed for immediate application. Transform your unexpected pause into intentional development using the RESET framework. Your worth is not your work. Your value is not your productivity. Your story is bigger than any single chapter.