The Next Chapter Lab
Whether you want more balance, more meaning, more flexibility, or an entirely new direction, The Next Chapter Lab helps healthcare professionals thoughtfully explore what's next.
Your guide to what's next
Choose the doorway that feels most useful today. Every path leads to an interactive part of the Lab.
Eight intentional phases
Practical support
About three minutes
Take the Career Clarity Quiz to discover your professional archetype and suggested pathways.
Where does your journey begin?
Every journey starts with a question. Where does yours begin?
Discover your professional archetype and unlock personalized pathways for your next chapter.
Takes about 3 minutes
Career reinvention isn't a leap - it's a series of intentional steps. Track your progress through each phase.
Every transition is unique, but you're not alone. Learn from healthcare professionals who've navigated their own next chapters.
Have a path others could learn from—or an idea for the SOAR hcp™ community? We'd love to hear it.
Share your experience, perspective, or an idea that could support clinicians navigating their next chapter.
Practical, interactive resources to support each step of your professional evolution. Click any toolkit to expand and start working through it.
Translate clinical experience for any audience
Open toolkitMap your transition step by step
Open toolkitIdentify your transferable expertise
Open toolkitLaunch your next idea strategically
Open toolkitFind hidden capacity in your week
Open toolkitPlan your runway with confidence
Open toolkitDefine and communicate your unique value
Open toolkitWhen you accept a LinkedIn® connection, take a moment to look at the company behind that person. LinkedIn® may show job openings or company-related prompts, but you can also explore this yourself.
See current openings
See who works there and shared connections
Understand culture and priorities
For PAs and NPs, this can reveal career paths that use clinical expertise in new ways, such as education, consulting, medical affairs, advocacy, leadership, research, or industry roles.
The goal is not to immediately ask for a job. The goal is to stay curious, notice patterns, and let your network show you possibilities you may not have considered.
Not sure what comes next? Start with a simple reflection, identify what is no longer working, and choose one practical step forward.
Choose the path that best reflects where you are right now.
Identify what to eliminate, delegate, automate, or protect so your time better reflects your priorities.
Use this guided reflection to determine whether you need to improve your current role, pursue a new direction, or redesign how you work.
Modern healthcare careers are no longer one straight line. Explore how your clinical expertise can expand into consulting, speaking, teaching, writing, leadership, education, industry, technology, and entrepreneurship.
A portfolio career is not about doing everything at once. It is about identifying the parts of your clinical experience, communication skills, leadership, creativity, and professional interests that can grow into meaningful opportunities over time.
Start with curiosity. Build with credibility. Protect your license, reputation, and patients.
Hover over any path to see connections. Click to explore in depth.
Pick one path that feels energizing.
Pick one path that already matches your experience.
Pick one path that could support your future flexibility.
Choose one starter action and complete it this month.
Before building a public-facing portfolio, make sure your work is accurate, ethical, appropriately disclosed, and aligned with your professional role. Visibility is valuable, but credibility is what sustains a long career.
Use these reputable sources to learn more about career development, medical education, disclosure, privacy, and responsible technology use.
You do not need a complete business plan, a large audience, or a dramatic career pivot to begin. A portfolio career often starts with one skill, one conversation, or one small project outside your primary clinical role.
Notice the skills clinical practice has already strengthened.
Select one area instead of pursuing every possible path.
Use a low-risk, time-limited project to learn what fits.
Early opportunities often come from showing what you can do.
Use what you learned to decide and take the next useful step.
The area I want to explore
The small project I will complete
The person I will contact
The date I will take the first step
These are starting points, not fixed categories. Many portfolio careers combine several paths over time.
A portfolio career is built through repeated, intentional steps. The goal is not to do everything. The goal is to begin.
Open a practical Next Chapter Lab resource when you are ready for the next step.
Your career does not have to be one lane forever. Start with one skill, one problem, one audience, and one next step.
Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is pause. Take a moment with these prompts.
What version of success no longer fits you?
What are you craving more of in your professional life?
What would sustainability look like for you?
What strengths deserve more room in your life?
If you weren't afraid, what would you try?
What would you want to be known for in five years?
Careers in healthcare are no longer linear. Your experience, purpose, and wisdom can grow into many forms over time.
Join thousands of healthcare professionals designing what comes next.