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Bex Thomas Career Transition Coach | Sabbatical Stories Podcast Host | Former Recruitment Director
Bex Thomas is a career transition coach and sabbatical specialist who draws on 20 years of recruitment experience across the UK and Australia. Originally from Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast, she emigrated to Sydney in 2011 on a corporate sponsorship and was promoted to director at a global recruitment firm before taking an eight-month sabbatical in 2016 that reshaped her professional life.
Bex now runs a coaching practice with three strands: the Crossroads programme for career transitions, the Purposeful Pause programme for intentional career breaks, and one-to-one coaching tailored to individual needs. She continues to work two days a week in retained recruitment for a strategy-focused firm in Sydney, giving her clients direct insight into the current hiring landscape.
She hosts the Sabbatical Stories podcast, now entering its fourth season, and partners with BreakSpace, an online community co-founded by Katrina McGee and Lindell Farley. The podcast features individuals sharing honest accounts of career breaks and transitions, alongside expert guests covering finances, health, and career strategy.
Bex Thomas spent 20 years in recruitment, earned a director-level promotion at a global firm, and realised the achievement felt hollow. That moment of anti-climax led to an eight-month sabbatical that became the catalyst for designing a portfolio career as a career transition coach, sabbatical coac…