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Reimagine Your Next Chapter: A Career and Life Accelerator for Mid-Career Women

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5 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Design the career and life only you can build. A 4-week program for mid-career and senior women navigating career shifts or reinvention.

Course overview

A peer-group career accelerator for mid-career and senior women

At mid-career, the path can feel messy, uncertain, and lonely. The pressure to keep achieving often collides with the longing for meaning, balance, and authenticity.


You don’t have to do it alone.


Lift Up Connections exists to help women grow, lead, and thrive through that complexity. Not by pushing harder, but by finding strength in community.


We bring together women navigating career and life inflection points to reimagine what’s next, build confidence, and create momentum. Through connection, reflection, and collective wisdom, you’ll design a chapter that feels aligned and alive.


About the Program

In this 4-week, 8-session experience, you’ll join a powerful peer group of women ready to reimagine their next chapter with intention, creativity, and strategic insight.


Based on Christine Perfetti’s Only You Reinvention Framework, developed through hundreds of interviews with women who’ve successfully reinvented their careers and lives, this program combines research-backed methods, human-centered design, and expert facilitation to help you move from reflection to action.


Whether you’re staying in your current field, pivoting toward something new, or exploring how to bring more meaning into your work and life, you’ll leave with clarity, courage, and momentum.


Why This Experience is Different

Traditional professional development is built around experts talking at you.


Lift Up Connections is different, It’s a shared space where insight flows between us. Every Lift Up experience is grounded in three pillars:


1. Connection: Genuine relationships that spark insight and accountability.

2. Community: Shared wisdom from peers who’ve walked similar paths.

3. Clarity: Proven frameworks that help you design what’s next with confidence.


What You’ll Experience:

• Peer Council Connection: Join a small, curated group of mid-career women who will hold space for honest reflection, share perspectives, and champion one another’s growth.

• The Only You Career Reinvention Framework: Christine’s research-based process combines life-mapping, discovery interviews, and vision prototyping, tools she’s used with leaders at Harvard Business School, GoFundMe, and HubSpot—to help you clarify your direction and design actionable next steps.

• Expert Facilitation with Empathy: Christine Perfetti is a social psychologist, seasoned UX researcher, and master facilitator who blends rigorous inquiry with compassionate guidance. Her sessions balance depth with momentum, helping participants navigate ambiguity, identity, and possibility.

• Meaningful Reflection + Real Action: You’ll explore your career and life holistically: your strengths, values, wellness, and relationships. And you will design small, low-risk “career pilots” to test and refine your ideas before making big changes in who you are and what matters most.


Your Instructor: Christine Perfetti

Christine Perfetti is the CEO of Lift Up Connections and creator of the Only You Reinvention Framework, a research-based approach to designing the next chapter of your career and life.


With two decades of executive leadership in UX, Product Strategy, and Research, and a Master’s in Social Psychology from Brown University, Christine has helped hundreds of individuals and organizations reimagine what’s next. Her superpower is creating spaces where women share insights, spark new possibilities, and rise together.


Because transformation happens faster, deeper, and more joyfully when we do it in community.

Who is this course for

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Women in mid or senior-level careers, especially in tech, product, or UX, who are navigating a turning point and want to move forward.

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Women seeking growth or change, whether that is advancing in your current path, pivoting to something new, or rediscovering purpose.

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Women ready to realign their work and life and create a chapter that feels authentic and aligned with your strengths, values, and goals.

What you’ll get out of this course

A clear vision of your next chapter

You will define what success means for you now, grounded in your strengths, values, and evolving priorities. Using the Only You Reinvention Framework, you’ll explore multiple possible futures and identify the path that feels most aligned and alive.

Practical tools to reimagine both work and life

You will use human-centered design and discovery techniques to explore not only your career but also the broader ecosystem of your life: your relationships, wellness, creativity, and purpose, so your next chapter supports your whole self.

Clarity on your "Zone of Genius"

Through guided Career Inventory and Life Mapping exercises, you’ll uncover where your natural talents, passions, and experiences intersect—and how to bring that unique brilliance into your next chapter.

Career pilots to test your ideas with confidence

You will design small, low-risk experiments, your “career pilots,” to explore potential directions before making big leaps, giving you both momentum and validation.

A trusted council of women who get it

You’ll connect with a small peer group who will hold space, ask powerful questions, and cheer you on. Together, you’ll co-create clarity, courage, and accountability.

A concrete action plan for what’s next

You’ll complete the program with an Opportunity Assessment and prioritized action roadmap, ready to take intentional, confident steps toward your next chapter.

What’s included

Christine Perfetti

Live sessions

Learn directly from Christine Perfetti in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Return to recordings, materials, and frameworks whenever you need

Council peer group

Stay accountable and supported with curated peer circles

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Nov 18—Nov 23

    Nov

    18

    Session 1 - Welcome and Orientation

    Tue 11/186:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    Nov

    20

    Session 2 - Conducting a Career Inventory

    Thu 11/206:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Nov 24—Nov 30

    Nov

    25

    Session 3 - Insights and Discovery: Understanding You

    Tue 11/256:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

Week 3

Dec 1—Dec 7

    Dec

    2

    Session 4 - Visioning: What does your career and life look like in 3 years? 10 years?

    Tue 12/26:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    Dec

    4

    Session 5. Future Foresight: Making It All Real

    Thu 12/46:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

Week 4

Dec 8—Dec 14

    Dec

    9

    Session 6. Where to Begin? Opportunity Assessment

    Tue 12/96:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    Dec

    11

    Session 7. Immunity to Change: What's Holding You Back?

    Thu 12/116:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

Week 5

Dec 15—Dec 16

    Dec

    16

    Session 8. Moving Forward and Taking Action: Design and Launch Career Pilots

    Tue 12/166:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

What students are saying

Testimonials for our program

        Christine has thoughtfully crafted a program that goes beyond conventional playbooks or manuals. What I needed was a space to connect with like-minded women—where we can listen, challenge, and provide real-time feedback to each other. Together, we are all learning and growing.”
Mary Noone

Mary Noone

Marketing Executive
        I really appreciated all of the support and feedback I got from my council.  It’s amazing that I ask people in every strategic conversation, what do you want to achieve?, and then can’t see it from the inside until someone else says it. Thanks for bringing us all together. What a gift!”
Stephanie Gerber Wilson

Stephanie Gerber Wilson

Leadership Consultant
        Being part of this mastermind group, surrounded by these incredible women, has been one of the true highlights of my spring and summer. I’m deeply grateful for the guidance and support I’ve received, and I want to extend a special thanks to Christine for creating this opportunity and tirelessly working to uplift women."
Kyle Soucy

Kyle Soucy

UX Research Consultant
        I found this to be an incredible experience and Christine is a very gifted facilitator. If you even think this might be a good fit, I highly recommend you sign up!"
Diana DeMarco Brown

Diana DeMarco Brown

Design Executive

Meet your instructor

Christine Perfetti

Christine Perfetti

Founder, Perfetti Media and Lift Up Connections

Christine Perfetti is an entrepreneur, researcher, product advisor, and 2x founder.


She is the Founding Principal of Perfetti Media, a product consulting company and CEO/Founder of Lift Up Connections, a group accelerator program for women navigating career pivots.


Christine built the product discovery programs at GoFundMe, Carbonite, Acquia, and TuneIn, and led product visioning workshops for Harvard Business School, WeSpire, HubSpot, Curriculum Associates, and Penn Medicine, among others. She uses these same techniques and methods to guide individuals through the process of visioning their next acts.


Before launching her own businesses, Christine was the Head of User Experience at Carbonite and Acquia, two highly successful startups.


She holds a Master of Science degree in Social Psychology from Brown University.

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Reimagine Your Next Chapter: A Career and Life Accelerator for Mid-Career Women

Nov 2025

$595

Dates

Nov 18—Dec 16, 2025

Payment Deadline

Nov 14, 2025
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