**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

**International Book Awards Business Finalist: Reference**

Leaving a job can create panic, disorientation and self-doubt. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Corporate Escapology is a proven five-step method to help you detach from corporate life, recognise your value and contribution, develop your new identity, explore options and make your next step count.

If you’re preparing to leave corporate life – whether by choice or not – Corporate Escapology will help you feel more confident, more intentional and better equipped for what comes next.

Inside you will find practical exercises to help you recognise how your corporate experience has prepared you for your next chapter and stories from fellow Corporate Escapologists describing their leap and what they’re doing now.

Adam Forbes, a Corporate Escapologist himself, is a coach, writer and podcaster on a mission to help people find their way out and their way forward to something more fulfilling, more purposeful and more enjoyable.

‘Adam gives more than clear practical steps but also an insight into his brilliant framework. An irreverent, straight-talking and clever book to get you taking those steps to being outside the matrix 9-5.’ – Lucy Werner, Author & Founder of Hype Yourself.com

An honest account of the journey to career transition with some great anecdotes along the way as well as helpful exercises. Written in an authentic and accessible style with humour, humility and a strong desire to help others at their career crossroads – Amazon 5*

This book is punchy, powerful and life changing – Amazon 5*

Forbes inspires with that rare blend of optimism, experience, and approachability that makes it feel as if a good friend is guiding you. Based on an impressive amount of qualitative data paired with practical guidance, he equips you in equal measure with tools and self-confidence. – Amazon 5*

An in depth account of how life is more than just being stuck in the corporate world and there is more out there. There are so many helpful tools and examples given to relate to…not to mention how practical they are! – Amazon 5*

I’m a big fan of anyone generous enough to outline the steps we need to take to implement great changes. Adam gives more than clear practical steps but also an insight into his brilliant framework. An irreverent, straight-talking and clever book to get you taking those steps to being outside the matrix 9-5. – Lucy Werner, Author & Founder of Hype Yourself.com

This book has EVERYTHING you want to think about if you’re ready to ‘make the leap’. The future is bright, and super rewarding, I’ve done it! But setting yourself up for success is the most important part and this book has totally got you covered. – Tom Coleman, Social Media & Marketing Expert & Corporate Escapologist

So, you’re thinking of leaving your corporate job? But you’re not sure if you can do it, let alone how to do it. If this is you, then here is your go-to book that I’ll be putting into the hands of every person wanting to take that leap into the unknown.

It’s a practical, thorough approach to thinking through this change – even if you decide to stay. Once you have worked through Adam’s step-by-step approach, you’ll have increased your confidence, your self-worth and definitely understood your value to the marketplace. Highly recommended! – Dr Lucy Ryan, author, Revolting Women: why Midlife Women are walking out (and what to do about it)

People with corporate experience make excellent board advisors, they bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise. A proactive and planned transition from a corporate career, as advocated in this book, helps people get ready for what’s next and start adding value earlier. – Louise Broekman, CEO Advisory Board Centre

If you want to be somewhere other than your corporate job this time next year, you need this book. – Kia Cannons, Artist, Coach & Corporate Escapologist

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of exercises
• Foreword by Claire Perry-Louise
• Introduction
• I Detach from your corporate career
  • 1 Life in a corporate
  • 2 The world today and what’s changed
  • 3 Dismantling myths
  • 4 On the veranda
• II Audit yourself
  • 5 A genuine 360°
  • 6 What’s holding you back?
  • 7 Why are you doing this?
• III Explore your options
  • 8 New pathways
• IV Exit corporate life
  • 9 Repositioning yourself
  • 10 New networking
  • 11 Mind the gap(s)
  • 12 The great escape
• V Sustain your exit
  • 13 No straight lines
  • 14 Going back
  • 15 How will you know you’re there?
• Final thoughts
• Appendix: Escape Plan Canvas
• Further reading
• Acknowledgements
• About the author
• Index

FORMAT / ISBN / PUBLICATION DATE / RRP

Hardback / 9781788606028 / July 2, 2024 / £24.99

Paperback / 9781788606035 / July 2, 2024 / £14.99

Ebook / 9781788606059 / July 1, 2024 / £7.99

Paperback and eBook Bundle / £16.99

Adam Forbes

Adam Forbes spent 25 years working happily and successfully within the four walls of major corporates in marketing, strategy, business development and finance, working within energy, retail, government and consulting – bp, Shell, Aramco, BT, Cabinet Office, John Lewis to name a few. He saw at first-hand what happens when re-structuring or other significant disruptions to the workforce results in individuals making the choice to leave or having that decision forced upon them, and observed how talented people from across all levels and roles often struggle to see beyond traditional corporate career paths.

In 2020 he made his own leap, establishing himself in a new career as a valued advisor and coach to corporates, startups and individuals and programme director for Startupbootcamp.

Since then, he’s spent time interviewing more than a hundred Corporate Escapologists to understand the formula to leave corporate life safely and successfully.

Adam writes a successful blog as the Corporate Escapologist about his time leaving a leading corporate to start up a new business and build a more varied, dynamic career designed around his values and needs. His Corporate Escapology podcast features people who have left corporate life to build new careers using the skills, experiences and know-how they gained during their corporate career.

Through his work coaching and advising fellow Corporate Escapologists to leave corporate jobs, through choice or redundancy, Adam has identified a simple method to help them move effectively through the stages of disorientation, fear and panic, to a greater appreciation of their own capabilities and options for the next phase of their careers.