Your experience didn’t retire when the job ended. Executive Nomad shows you how to turn it into a business you run from a laptop, on a schedule that doesn’t cost you your health, from your kitchen table, another city or another country.
DecodedAi Lite is free. It takes about three minutes.
Author of The Executive Nomad Operating System. Host of The Executive Nomad Podcast.
Work where you’re valued, live where you’re inspired.
A 30-year adventure story:
Before digital nomads, back when it was called Perpetual Traveller and the internet wasn’t a thing, I was already working from wherever I chose. I still consult, coach executives, run workshops and mentor. Everything I teach, I’ve been doing myself (and still do) for three decades.
Why I wrote the book
I met Peter in Neos Marmaras, a harbour town in Greece. He was 54, and he’d just left a senior job in logistics after 25 years. His company had been bought by a competitor, the incoming CEO was bringing his own C-suite with him, and Peter was made redundant.
The payoff was good, so money wasn’t what worried him. He felt untethered. He felt he had nowhere to go, and that he was too old to find another job. We talked for a couple of hours, and it became obvious that Peter didn’t need another job. He had enough experience to build his own business, run from wherever he wanted to be. He just needed some guidance and direction.
By the end of that conversation we’d agreed that Peter was an Executive Nomad. That’s where the book started. I’d guess some of it sounds familiar.
Become an Executive Nomad
An Executive Nomad is an experienced professional who no longer lets a job, a title or a place decide how they work.
You spent decades getting good at something. Most people only find out how much of their status was borrowed when the job ends. The title goes, the team goes, the diary empties. The experience is still there, and nobody is asking for it. So the real question arrives: was I valuable, or was the position?
The usual advice gives you two options: retire, or take a smaller version of the job you just left. There’s a third. Build a business around what you know and the life you want. Consult from a harbour town, mentor from your home office, run workshops between trips.
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DecodedAi takes one thing you did at work and shows you the capability inside it, and the services, buyers and uses it could point to. It’s the first step of Rewire, and it isn’t a CV tool or a personality test.
Pick one situation where you made a real difference. Describe your role, the situation, what you did and the outcome.
In about three minutes, DecodedAi picks out your own judgement and decisions, and names the method and the result.
Run it again with another win and look for the pattern. Then take what you find into RewiredAi Lite, also free, to shape it into an offer and test your assumptions.
Anonymous by design. No payment, no card, no email and no sign-up. We don’t save, record or keep notes of what you write.
Three moves, in order. Work out what your experience equips you to offer. Shape it into something a buyer can say yes to. Then take it beyond the industry where you learned it.
What can you credibly offer?
Your career is the raw material. You look at the responsibilities you’ve held, the problems you’ve solved and the decisions people trusted you to make, including the losses and the lessons. One win suggests a direction. A pattern across several roles gives you a foundation. Then you match it to a way of earning: coaching, mentoring, workshops, consulting, advisory or fractional work.
You leave with: a clear account of what you can offer, who it could help and the gaps you still need to close.
Start with DecodedAi Lite, freeWhat exactly are you selling, and to whom?
“Leadership consultant” isn’t an offer. You choose a buyer and the specific problem you help them with, and you work out who gets the help and who signs off the budget. Then you set the outcome, the delivery, the scope, how long it runs and a price for the whole engagement, not just the hours in the room.
You leave with: one defined offer, with a buyer, a problem, an outcome and a price, and a way to explain it in a sentence.
Challenge it with RewiredAi Lite, freeWho else has this problem?
Your industry is where you learned it, not the only place it’s worth something. You find the same problem in other sectors and countries, work out what transfers and what needs adapting, and design delivery that travels with you. Then you test it with real buyers, ideally with a paid pilot, before you expand.
You leave with: the markets worth testing, what they’ll need you to adapt, and a way of working that gives you a say over where and when.
Explore it with RewiredAi Lite, freeAI can suggest the possibilities. Only buyers can tell you there’s demand.
Peter is at an industry event, and a CFO next to him asks the usual question: “So, what do you do?” Here’s how the book has him answer it, twice.
“Well, I’m currently transitioning. I used to be the VP of Operations for a large logistics firm, but now I’m doing some consulting. I mostly help companies with strategy, operational efficiency, and leadership mentoring.”
Answer one. The listener nods politely and scans the room.
“I provide the Integration Risk Audit for logistics mergers. When two logistics companies combine, I find the hidden leakage points before they lose the first million.”
Answer two. The listener stops drinking and leans in.
Same man, same 25 years. The difference is a name for what he sells.
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Bloody Brilliant!!
Louise Medve, Most Influential CEO 2026 (Professional Coaching, UK) and Best Speaker Development & Coaching Programme 2026 (UK), CEO Monthly
For over three decades I’ve run an executive-level, location-independent ‘laptop’ business. This is how it works.
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Pick the door that matches where your career happened. Each one is a workshop and an AI app built to get you started on your own. The method is the same behind every door, and each page speaks your sector’s language.
The media world is changing fast. Make sure you stay valued, but on your own terms.
Start in mediaYou know what works in the health sector and what the guidelines miss. That’s worth teaching.
Start in healthNobody sees the pace of change like a tech professional. Here’s how to take advantage.
Start in techThe questions everyone asks before they go independent.
Home counts. If you do want somewhere new, check the time zone, the cost, the connection and how long you can stay, and try it for a season before you commit.
Set the company up so it can move when you do, and a change of address never means starting again. Do it early, with an adviser.
A laptop, a phone, reliable internet with a backup, files in the cloud and a way to get paid online. The kit is the easy part.
Set fixed hours that overlap with your clients and protect the rest. Clients value being able to rely on you more than round-the-clock replies.
Where you’re tax resident, where the company is and how long you can stay are three different questions. Ask a qualified adviser in each country involved.
Consulting, advisory work, coaching, mentoring and workshops all work online. Many end up with a portfolio: a retainer, a few mentoring clients, a workshop or two.
Tax, legal and immigration topics are covered here at an educational level. Your own situation is a job for a qualified adviser in the countries involved.
Meet the people taking control of their lives, their income and the way the next chapter looks.
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Listen on executivenomad.fmStart free with the AI tools. Go deeper in a workshop. Or build the whole thing with me, step by step, over 90 days.
Ninety days, built together. We shape what you know into an offer, price it, test it in real conversations with buyers, and put the systems in place to run it from wherever you choose. By day 90 you’re no longer relying on theory. The market has told you something.
You have decades of experience and want to know what it’s worth outside your old role.
You want control over where you live, who you work with and how much of your life work takes up.
You’re ready to put in the work for 90 days and talk to real buyers.
You’re really after another job.
You want a guaranteed income or a quick win.
You’d rather keep analysing than test an idea in the market.
Jamie helped me solidify some of my thinking around branding. He offered suggestions on how to launch and bring in initial clients. With re-purposing, this led to potential ways to grow my consulting business post-launch.
Debra Mitchell PhD, Clinical Research Advisor and Consultant, on working with Jamie
Keynotes, workshops and panels for conferences, associations, corporate and HR teams, and broker networks. Thirty-plus years of independent work, from co-founding SIRA Utilities, the company that became uSwitch.com, to a client base that’s been global from day one.
How much of a senior person’s standing is borrowed from the employer, and how to find the part that’s theirs to keep. The audience leaves knowing what their experience is worth on the open market.
Working from anywhere comes down to structure, tools, time zones and income that travels. Every delegate takes away a practical checklist.
Most people who go independent build a job they can’t leave. This talk shows the difference between selling your hours and building something that doesn’t need you in one place.
One introduction from you, at no cost, and the person you’re helping gets a clear way forward. We take it from there.
Make one introduction and you’re done. There’s no cost to get started, your leaver gets real help with what comes next, and your organisation is seen to look after the people who leave.
See the HR page →Pass on one name and we do the rest. We help your client decide what life after the sale looks like, so they commit sooner and deals close quicker. Getting started costs them nothing.
See the brokers page →You can check for recruiter alerts, tweak your CV again and apply for a role that pays less than you earned ten years ago. It feels safe because it’s familiar.
Or you can start working out what your experience is worth as a business of your own, and who will pay for it. DecodedAi Lite gives you a first answer in about three minutes, free.
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