Your Career. Forward.
A confidential coaching partner
for your next career move
Sidrlabs moves Leaders and Career Changers into what’s next.
00 Career Tracks
Two carefully designed career tracks. One focused on advancing your leadership. One built for intentional career changes. Explore which route is best suited for your next step.
01
Executive Coaching
Bespoke professional coaching for leaders ready to unlock their full potential, exert greater influence, lead real change for their teams and organisations, whilst moving their careers forward.
02
Career Change
A practical programme for professionals ready for a career change. Generate and test new career possibilities, validate your direction, build your roadmap, and kick-start your transition into what’s next.
01 Executive Coaching
Who is it for?
- The challenge.
- You bring depth, discipline, and real expertise. You keep hitting invisible walls whether it’s politics, visibility games, and systems that reward perception over value.
- The outcome.
- You stop trying to fit the archetype. You start leading from your own strengths.
- The challenge.
- Whether it’s a new role, an internal move or a promotion, you’re ready to step up. Your organisation doesn’t necessarily see it yet.
- The outcome.
- You stop waiting for the right opportunity to find you. Instead, you position yourself for what’s next.
- The challenge.
- You can see the limits of the current system. Getting others to see them is the harder part.
- The outcome.
- You learn to disrupt intelligently, build new structures from within, and turn resistance into alignment.
Client Organisations
Impact & Growth
Results across 100+ leaders coached.
83%
of Introverted Leaders achieved greater collaboration, influence & visibility
77%
of Leaders seeking a new role initiated an internal move
73%
of Leaders seeking a promotion secured one
79%
of Leaders developed systemic agency, i.e. the ability to read, navigate, and shape the systems around them
Figures to July 2026.
Aiming for similar results?
Results achieved with Leaders
A selection of results, anonymised to protect privacy.
- Head of Function to Regional Head
- Area Director to Country Director
- Finance Manager to Senior Finance Manager
- Director to Senior Director
- Deputy Manager to Head of Function
- Functional Lead to Head of Function
- Head of Business Operations to Director of Business Operations
- Bid Management Director to Client Partner
- Consulting Director to Product Director
- Product Strategy Director to Operations & Product Director
- Performance Management Manager to Commercial Finance Manager
- Site Lead to Operations Lead
- Design Director to Design & Brand Strategy Director
- Functional Leadership to Multi-Function Leadership
- Functional Leadership to Regional Leadership
Your growth creates growth.
One square stands for the leader. It moves through five stages of a career, and at every stage the squares it has already placed stay behind while more gather around them. Nothing is ever removed.
02 Career Change
From the first idea to progression in your new career. The first three months are structured; everything after is shaped around wherever your transition has taken you.
01
Design
- Identify your career aspirations
- Generate 6+ career prototypes using structured ideation
- Redesign your workday for the transition ahead
02
Plan
- Select your top three career prototypes
- Build a roadmap and key milestones for each
- Build a network aligned to support the move
03
Start
- Choose the path to commit to
- Four dedicated coaching sessions
- Hit your first real milestones
04
Achieve
- Keep momentum through your next milestones: study, retraining or building
- Land the new role, or get your own business off the ground
- Excel in what you have chosen, whether it’s your next promotion or scaling your business up
Results achieved with Career Changers
A selection of results, anonymised to protect privacy.
E-commerce to Health Tech
C-level move into a new industry in 3 months
13 career prototypes · 10+ new connections
Economics to Private Equity
New industry, role and country in <6 months
9 career prototypes · 10+ new connections
Data Science to Entrepreneurship
Coffee Trading MVP launched with first paying clients within 2 months
12 career prototypes · 10+ new connections
Interior Design to Entrepreneurship
First Fortune 100 contract secured in 4 months
6 career prototypes · 10+ new connections
Environmental Science to Environmental Product Design
40+ new connections in 2 weeks
8 career prototypes
Product Management to Technical Project Management
Made a dual move (new function + new industry)
9 career prototypes · 10+ new connections
Creative Engineering to Entrepreneurship
Media Startup Co-Founder
12 career prototypes · 10+ new connections
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
You’re not starting over.
You’re expanding what’s possible.
As you scroll, the working context of one job becomes another: software engineer to chef, teacher to architect, accountant to designer, scientist to coffee trader.
03 About
Karen Rene helps leaders and career changers move into what’s next, whether that’s their next level of leadership, a new function, a new industry, or a new country.
As the founder of Sidrlabs and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialed by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Karen combines professional coaching expertise with 15+ years of experience across Business & Tech at Deloitte, L’Oréal, and Aesop.
Her own career has been shaped by change. She has deliberately pivoted across Sales, Operations, and Digital & Tech, relocated internationally, and built side ventures. Together, these experiences have shaped a broad perspective across functions, markets, and industries. She brings that firsthand experience of career change into her work with clients.
At Aesop, Karen was Global Head of Digital Operations and a member of the Aesop Digital & Tech Global Leadership Team. She led e-commerce operations strategy across 15+ markets and guided a team of 100+ people across key markets including the US, UK, Australia, Germany, France, and Japan. French-Australian, Karen is currently based in the Netherlands.
What she brings
- Assisted director-to-board-level leaders with backgrounds in Business Operations, Technology & Engineering, Product, Innovation, Design, and Creative Content.
- Worked with career changers from a wide range of backgrounds, from science and technology to business, academia, and the creative industries.
- Managed teams of auditors, product owners, engineers, e-commerce operations specialists, and project managers.
- Coached leaders in technology, e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, fintech, cloud services, media & publishing, and other industries.
- Hands-on experience across financial services, luxury beauty & personal care, FMCG, retail, and travel technology.
- Consulted with and audited CFOs in luxury goods, luxury hospitality, automotive, and FMCG.
- Mentored early-stage Sportstech, SaaS, and Fintech startups through the Amsterdam Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE), which supported 130+ incubated startups, with ventures raising €50M+ and achieving a 72% two-year survival rate.
- Lived and worked in the Netherlands, France, and Australia.
- Worked with teams across 20+ markets, including Japan, the US, Hong Kong, South Korea, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, LATAM, and the Netherlands.
- Coached Business & Tech leaders from France, Finland, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Working with Karen: what clients say
Each testimonial has been anonymised to protect privacy and confidentiality.
“Karen really is able to dig deep and create a growth mindset plan regardless of the setting.”
“Karen has a way of being torturously good at asking exactly the right questions which lead to self thinking about the glaring truth and actions which can self-help me.”
“Karen really is deeply reflective and helps you untangle your internal thought process that optimises for performance and better personal work experience which then leads to higher performance regardless of what the surrounding conditions are. Superb!”
“Karen has definitely changed my perspective and approach. She has given me tools, lenses, guardrails and refreshed energy on how to align personal and business outcomes and, most importantly, on how to influence them or at least be more deliberate. Karen has shown what coaching is all about, as opposed to just a management technique: she made it human.”
“I feel better able to communicate with senior stakeholders, bring them in when action is needed and flag the risks of certain decisions. I also feel my communication and storytelling has massively improved; I feel more confident in communicating complex and somewhat dull projects to the wider business more excitingly and engagingly.”
“I have a clearer sense of how to ‘operate in the matrix’, which is important in my role as we are undergoing a change of structure. I also have plans for how to deal with certain performance issues and recruitment challenges in my team. I have also developed some strategies for building my knowledge and expertise.”
“Excellent coaching focusing on problem solving, unlock potential and really deeply understanding where each piece of the puzzle fits.”
“Her holistic approach led us to analyse several scenarios and paths and work out which was best suited to what I want and need long term. She guided me with tangible, realistic steps that reflected her immense experience both professionally and personally.”
“Karen supported me in taking pivotal career steps, such as curating my professional network, refining my career plan, and landing my new job. All in 11 weeks.”
“I liked how she challenges my thinking.”
“Karen has been phenomenal all the way through the coaching journey, asking thought-provoking questions and enabling me to come to my own answers. A superpower!”
“Karen is having a huge impact on my performance at work, we are having thought-provoking conversations and I am taking feedback away with me to work on each week.”
“Karen has a great way of summarising sharply what is going on and taking the complexity out of simple things that allows us to work on them. She is a really active listener way beyond the conversation that is happening at surface level; she is able to link those words to the thoughts and feelings giving rise to them in a super insightful way.”
“Karen is excellent at synthesizing my extensive thoughts into structured next steps.”
“Always has a way of turning thinking into so much a wider activity — it’s great!”
“I have been more strategic in my approach to situations, I have been more prepared to voice my viewpoint, I have gone into situations more prepared as I have had the space to consider my wants, needs and actions.”
Confidentiality
Every engagement is built on strict confidentiality.
- What you tell me stays with me, including that we ever spoke.
- What an employer funds is the result, never the transcript.
- Sessions are never recorded, transcribed, or put through any AI tool.