A guided career pivot programme for senior professionals
Your next chapter is closer than you think.
A skills report for an AI world and career scenarios built on your values, in minutes. The more history you bring, the sharper the questions get. Then test your ideas with real, unbiased people, not a chatbot.
50 tested this before you, we’re opening it up to 100 more. No card, no invite, no waiting list.
Milestones that shift a career
71%feel nervous, overwhelmed or intimidated during a job transitionO.C. Tanner, 2025 Global Culture Report
74%of career changers have been thinking about it for a year or moreCareershifters, State of Career Change Report 2026
Here is Pirouette. We help you make the turn.
pi·rou·ette /ˌpɪrʊˈɛt/ noun
A controlled spin. Not falling, not flailing. A deliberate turn.
You commit three things. Pirouette does the rest.
15 minSkills Mirror conversation
About thirty questions, drawn from your CV and career research, scored on scientific evidence and psychology methodologies. Works on your phone.
3 x 30 minThree catch-ups with your cohort
Ninety minutes in total, spread across the twelve weeks, with the four of you. You meet your cohort in the first month, once you have your first scenarios. You pencil the dates together and re-time them when a week goes wrong.
MoreIf you want it, it is there
Coaches, mentors and your own network, on top of the Skills Mirror and your cohort rather than instead of them. Book a coach when you want one, not on a schedule we set.
What you walk away with
A skills report built for an AI world
- Without Pirouette
- A rough sense of your skills, mostly borrowed from old job titles.
- With Pirouette
- A current, complete picture of your skills, plus your human edge: what you bring to each one that is yours, and how to stand out as AI spreads.
Three scenarios, not just the obvious one
- Without Pirouette
- You know the typical path. The rest stays vague, and never side by side.
- With Pirouette
- The expected next step plus creative roles shaped by your values, compared side by side.
An unbiased network
- Without Pirouette
- Colleagues are too close and other candidates are competition. Saying it out loud feels risky.
- With Pirouette
- Paired with fellow members across companies and countries, to test ideas and share what works.
All of it stays yours. No employer dashboard, no manager view. Swiss-hosted, GDPR-native.
Mentors & professional network
Learn from people who have built careers at
NIKEGoogleACCENTURELVMH
Why we built this
Two careers, rebuilt more than once.
Between us: four maternity leaves, and careers rebuilt in a handful of countries. Every milestone, a new leadership team, a newborn, a move to follow love, led to the same question. What do I actually want next?
The answer always came from three places. Time to reflect on what we actually wanted, people to pressure test the options with, and a short list of mentors to prepare us. Pirouette is those three things, built so you do not need to already have them.
Julie & Elselien
Co-founders, Pirouette
What people ask before they start
Who is Pirouette for?
Senior professionals navigating a career change, typically around a life milestone: returning from maternity or paternity leave, moving abroad, coming back from a career break, or resetting after a leadership change. The whole diagnostic is written from your CV, so the more career history you bring the more specific the questions get. It is built for people with years behind them, not for a first job. And if there is no trigger at all, it is still a place to regularly reassess whether what you do still matches your values, your longer term ambitions and your priorities.
How is Pirouette different from an AI chatbot or a career coach?
Pirouette combines the methods of three experts who are expensive or hard to book in real life: a business psychologist, a career coach and a behavioural psychologist. You get their approach straight away, we ask the questions, and you leave with concrete next steps.
| Criterion | AI chatbot | Pirouette | Live expert |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access | |||
| Speed | Instant, one-off | Instant, with a plan | Waiting list |
| Cost | Free | Free in beta | Expensive |
| Available | 24/7 | 24/7 | Office hours |
| Quality | |||
| Who asks | You | We do | They do |
| Output | Generic answers | Roles, skills, next steps | Varies by expert |
| Sources | Unclear | Research library | Their experience |
| Support over time | |||
| Memory | Starts over | Builds on you | Their notes |
| Follow-up | None | Reminders and a cohort | Every few weeks |
| Peers | None | Your cohort | None |
| Trust | |||
| Tone | Agrees with you | Adapts, challenges | Click or no click |
| Your data | May train the model | Yours, deletable | Confidential |
| Limits | Doesn't say | Coaching, not therapy | Handles serious issues |
- An AI chatbot (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot): fast and free, but you have to know what to ask.
- A live expert: deep, but expensive, slow to book and hit or miss.
- Pirouette: three experts' methods, instantly, turned into concrete steps.
How long does the programme take?
In about 15 minutes you get your Skills Mirror and your first career scenarios. Going deeper takes about 2 hours of your time in total: three 30 minute catch-ups with your cohort over 12 weeks, plus the Skills Mirror itself. You meet your cohort in the first month, once you have your first scenarios, so you start testing them with a first network of real people early. Coaches and mentors are extra, booked by you when you want one. It is built to fit around a full job and a full life.
What are the five steps?
You move through five stages.
- Discover. Share your story, your CV, your constraints and your goals, so everything after this is built on what is actually true.
- Skills Mirror. A 15 minute conversation that maps your top ten skills and scores your function, leadership, presence and adaptability. It indicates both your strengths and your opportunities.
- Scenarios. Three realistic pivot scenarios built around your real constraints on hours, location, money and timing, plus any scenario you add yourself.
- Cohort. A cohort of four, matched by hand, each at their own crossroads, to pressure test the scenario you chose. Three 30 minute catch-ups across the programme.
- Discuss. Coaches, mentors and the people you already know, in one place, with the message to an old contact already suggested for you.
Is this coaching, or is it software?
It is both. The diagnostics and scenario modelling run on AI, but the strategy and the training behind them are entirely human led. Think of a dancer at the barre: the software is the barre, steady, consistent, and always there to hold you up. The coaches are the instructors in the room, correcting your posture, guiding your focus, and pushing your performance. Your accountability comes from a real cohort of peers, and your guidance comes from experienced mentors. By letting the software handle the mapping, human effort goes directly where it counts: making the decisions that matter.
How does Pirouette help me stand out in an AI world?
Your Skills Mirror results include a section called Your human edge. For each of your top skills it says what you bring that is yours, drawn from what you told us, such as reading a room or knowing who needs a call before an email. That is the part to lead with in your CV, in interviews and when you weigh your scenarios. It describes you, not a machine, and it is built from your own conversation.
What scientific research is the Skills Mirror based on?
The Skills Mirror is grounded in published research on careers, psychology and the labour market, across these areas: how work changed since 2020; how careers change; fit, strengths and energy; values and psychological flexibility; designing and testing a move; women's careers; changing career across countries; meaning and ikigai; labour market and European law; and coaching method. Ideas from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy shape how the conversation is run; Pirouette is coaching, not therapy. Julie and Elselien, Pirouette's founders, hand-selected every source, and for each one we write our own plain-language summary. Claude, Anthropic's AI model, is the infrastructure: it reads those summaries whenever it writes your questions, replies to you and scores your Skills Mirror. It is not trained on your answers. We keep adding sources as we find relevant new research. See the research.
Do I need to already know what I want to do next?
No. Most people arrive knowing only that something has to change. Working out what you actually want is the first half of the programme, not a prerequisite for joining.
How practical is it? Will it help me actually make the move?
It is built to be. Every scenario ends with a concrete first move, not a personality label. The moment you pick one, you can see who you already know in that field, through a LinkedIn search of your first- and second-degree connections, and open the latest roles on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Reed and Totaljobs. Those searches run on LinkedIn and the job sites themselves: we never see your connections and we do not run a job board. When it is time to get back in touch with someone, Pirouette suggests the message to send.
Can I do this while working full time?
Yes. The programme is built for people with no spare bandwidth, so the fixed commitment is small and it is written down. It starts with one 15 minute Skills Mirror conversation, which works on your phone, then three 30 minute calls with your cohort over the programme, ninety minutes in total, at times the four of you pencil together and re-time when a week goes wrong. Coach and mentor sessions are extra and are booked by you, when you want one, and each coach sets the length of their own. Everything else moves at your pace, wherever you are in the world.
Can my employer see any of this?
No. Pirouette accounts belong to you, not to your employer. There is no employer dashboard, no manager view and no admin access. If an organisation buys Pirouette access for its employees, all they ever see is the total number of activated accounts. They get no insight into your results, your data, your progress stage, your name, your scenarios or your conversations. And nobody at Pirouette reads your conversation either, we see your results, not your words. Your data is stored in Switzerland, and you can delete all of it at any time.
How do I install the Pirouette app?
You do not need an app store. Pirouette installs straight from the website onto your phone's home screen. On an iPhone, open mypirouette.co in Safari, not Chrome, tap the Share button in the bottom bar, then scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen. On Android, open mypirouette.co in Chrome, tap the three dots in the top corner and choose Install app. Either way it takes under a minute, and Pirouette then opens from your home screen like any other app.