We’re glad you’re here!

Nearly two decades ago, we looked at the traditional path to success and said, "Thanks, but no thanks." We decided to design a life rooted in self-discovery and fulfillment, with a little less convention and a lot more purpose. We didn’t have a road map – just a shared desire for more meaning, more connection, and ample time for what mattered most to us: exploration, giving back, and doing work that lifts people up.

What started as a personal quest to reclaim our lives became No Vacation Required, which is:

• A philosophy for fulfillment, centered on the idea that you can build a life you don’t need a break from.

• Inspiration and advice to motivate you to create a No Vacation Required life.

• A suite of services – under the banner The Change Laboratory – designed to help people and teams get to know themselves better and build more fulfillment.

• Hyperbole! Even fulfilled people appreciate vacations (and, trust us, our passports get a lot of use).

HOW WE GOT HERE

After stints in traditional, upwardly mobile careers, we built our NVR life and our reputation as sought after business and career development consultants. We were the people individuals hired to get "unstuck" and leaders hired to fix "broken" teams.

But across all those projects, we noticed a recurring theme: nearly every problem we solved, from career burnout to team conflict, stemmed from a single issue: a lack of self-knowledge. People were trying to solve external problems using an internal system they didn’t actually understand.

We realized that the most sustainable change doesn’t start with a new strategy; it starts with knowing your architecture – knowing you.

Now, we’ve created an Advisory Service exclusively designed to uncover the hard-wired reality of how you actually function. We look at the baseline of how you fuel, how you decide, and how you show up – both in the quiet moments and when the stakes are more complicated.

What WE’RE DOING

What started as our personal journey to be more fulfilled became a philosophy, a framework, and a thriving business. When we recently created our Advisory Service, we took everything we learned from our personal experience and that of our thousands of consulting projects and channeled it into inspiring content and a compelling suite of services.

Everything we do supports a singular goal: helping you to understand that the best investment you can make is in figuring out you – knowing your makeup and how you can best navigate all aspects of your world.

We do this through:

• Inspirational and informative content – Our blog offers a unique perspective, fresh ideas and actionable tips for building a life you love. Our podcast challenges outdated traditions by asking, “Why are we still doing that?”

• Personal and professional development services – A suite of services – anchored in our signature offering YouFinder: The Personal Operations Guide – built to support individuals and teams in adopting a deliberate, fulfillment-forward mindset – starting with figuring out you.

• A framework for building a No Vacation Required life – Our book, No Vacation Required, details how we built and maintain a deeply fulfilling life—and gives you the framework to do the same. It’s full of robust tips and exercises to guide you toward creating your own No Vacation Required life.

WHY YOU CAN TRUST US

We don’t just teach fulfillment, we live it.

After long stints in traditional, upwardly mobile careers, we built our NVR life and our reputation as leading business and career development consultants. We helped thousands of people and teams make smart, strategic decisions about what’s next. What we learned, again and again, is that the most sustainable change doesn’t start with strategy alone, and it’s certainly not centered in career or work. Real, lasting transformation comes when people understand themselves deeply – their values, motivations, and unique personality traits – and apply that insight to every area of life.

Our current service offerings were born from this realization. We help people create lives they don’t need a break from by blending decades of career and organizational expertise with holistic, personality-informed tools. Our work is the direct result of aligning expertise, education, and lived experience into something real, actionable, and impactful.

The Credibility Behind the Compass

With over 20 years of experience in HR, organizational development, leadership, and operations, we’ve guided individuals and teams around the world to reconnect with what matters most. Our credentials back that up:

• Kent holds an MBA with a focus in Global Organizational Development and recently completed post-graduate studies in wellness-forward change methodologies, including Positive Psychology and Motivational Interviewing.

• Caanan is a tech-forward People Experience strategist who holds the distinguished SPHR certification and advanced training in HR analytics, career development, and complex organizational systems.

Intentionally Small. Deeply Personalized.

We’ve chosen to stay intentionally small, with a commitment to delivering high-touch, deeply personalized services. No outsourcing. No scaling. It turns out that focusing on a few people at a time is a much more effective strategy than trying to be all things to everyone.

That commitment has built the trust of a loyal client base – thousands of satisfied partners that comes back again and again, and (what we consider to be the highest compliment) refer the people they care about. It's a win-win.