When The Career You Built
No Longer Fits

You’ve built something real: skills, responsibility, reputation, a career that once made sense. But now, continuing on the same path no longer feels fully right.

Something needs to change, but the next chapter is not yet clear.

At the Life Purpose Lab, we have spent six years studying how people work through exactly this kind of moment. We turned that research into a practical process that helps people clarify what matters most so they can decide what is worth doing next.

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Second Calling is a podcast for professionals figuring out what matters most in their next chapter.
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See Where You Stand

A free twelve-question assessment. A few minutes, and a personalized score showing where you are now.Take our free Purpose Clarity Assessment. Just 12 research-based questions, and in a few minutes you'll get a personalized score that shows where you stand.
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How Can I Help?

Work With Me One-on-One

If you are facing a real next-chapter decision now, I offer purpose-based individual coaching. This is a structured process for clarifying what matters most and using that clarity to decide what is worth doing next.

This is not résumé coaching, job-search strategy, therapy, or open-ended self-exploration. It is for people who are ready to give a consequential decision real attention..

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Bring This Work to a Group

I lead purpose workshops for organizations, teams, alumni groups, and professional communities.

These sessions help people step back from daily demands, clarify what matters most, and reconnect their work with a deeper sense of contribution. For teams, they also create a powerful shared experience: people hear what matters to one another, build trust, and develop a common language for purpose, motivation, and meaningful work.
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Self-Guided Course Coming Later

I am developing a self-guided course for people who want to work through this process on their own. If you want to hear when it opens, sign up for my newsletter where I'll announce it.

Does It Work?

Yes... much better than we had anticipated

Data

In our workshops, we’ve collected pre- and post-test assessments of life purpose, and we follow up six months later. Here's what we've found: 85% of participants report a significant increase in life purpose. On a 1-10 scale, participants start at an average of 5.3 and finish at 7.4 — in just eight hours! Participants also report becoming significantly happier and more satisfied with their lives. These effects hold for at least six months.

Testimonials


"The experience was truly life changing. Our team came together, thought deeply about what gives their life meaning, and shared their dreams and passions with each other." — Andrew Garza, Trial Attorney

"Working with Dr. Wright helped me learn so much about myself and my priorities. I feel very well equipped to navigate the world around me with clarity of purpose." — Irene Soteriou, Truman Scholar

"It showed me how to set aside my self-imposed barriers and deeply explore new ways to move forward with my life and career." — Bryan Dik, University Professor


Learn More About Our Lab Work

Newsletter

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Each month you get a story, an idea, and a resource to help you answer the question "what's next?"

How This Started

I'm a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut, where I do professor-y things like teach classes and conduct research. About eight years ago, I realized that decades of academic publishing, grants, and citations weren't having the wider impact I'd hoped for. Something was missing. So I went looking for a research topic that could make a measurable difference in people's lives. I landed on life purpose — specifically, how people find it.

Working with a team of talented students and staff, I spent two years developing a workshop to test whether we could effectively guide people in finding more purpose. What we developed worked — far better than we had expected. So we started offering it — first to UConn students, then to UConn staff through HR, and eventually to outside groups who heard about the results and reached out.

Now, we're making our work available more broadly — through online courses, group training, and personal coaching.
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Want to learn more?

A UConn Magazine cover story about our work

My academic publications

My TEDx talk on purpose

Let's Talk

Want to talk about purpose?

I offer a limited number of free 20-minute conversations each week. We can talk about purpose in your own life, in your team or organization, or just something you've been mulling over.

No agenda — just a (hopefully) useful conversation with someone who thinks about this all the time.
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Stay in Touch

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Each month you get a story, an idea, and a resource to help you answer the question "what's next?"


Questions? Comments? Ideas for working together? Feel free to reach out to me at bradley@bradleywrightphd.com