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The traditional career model no longer gives ambitious people enough.

Not enough options. Not enough ownership. Not enough room to grow in more than one direction at once.

Portfolio Career Design™ + Community is an international ecosystem for professionals building a more intentional, diversified and future-ready working life - without walking away from everything they’ve already built.

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Begins with a personal conversation – no pitch, no pressure. We only open the door when the fit is right, both ways.
This is not an online course.
It is an environment.
A structured process that takes you through real change - building a working life with more options - held inside a standing circle of senior peers who think alongside you, and stay in the room long after a course would have ended.
How It Works
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Begins with a personal conversation – no pitch, no pressure. We only open the door when the fit is right, both ways.

Why ambitious professionals are rethinking the way they work and build their future

You are not in crisis.
You are in motion.

  • You still perform at a high level, but the role itself no longer carries the meaning it once did.
  • You have skills, ideas and intuitions that do not fit inside your current job description.
  • You sense that one role, one employer, one identity is becoming a structural risk, not a stable choice.
  • You want additional professional pillars, but not at the cost of dismantling what already works.
  • You want a more diversified professional identity, not a side hustle.
A portfolio career means building more than one professional pillar around your skills, experience and interests - so your identity, opportunities and future no longer depend on one role alone.

The next decade will reward optionality

The professionals who thrive over the next decade won’t necessarily be the smartest, or the busiest. They’ll be the ones who built optionality before they needed it – who designed a working life with more room for possibility, on their own terms and ahead of time.

From one role to a
portfolio of options.

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From:
  • A professional life that became smaller than your actual potential
  • A future shaped largely by someone else’s decisions
  • Skills compressed into a single job description
  • Identity tied to one organisation
To:
  • Multiple professional options, designed with intention
  • A diversified working life that absorbs change rather than fears it
  • A portable professional identity that travels with you
  • Visibility, autonomy and a longer professional runway

What this actually is

Portfolio Career Design™ + Community is an international ecosystem for ambitious professionals who want more options, more autonomy and a more intentional professional life.
At its core is the Portfolio Career Design™ framework – a structured process grounded in work psychology, design thinking and nearly 30 years of career-transition experience.
This is not passive learning. It's an environment built for reflection, implementation, ambitious conversations and long-term professional visibility.
The quality of your environment shapes the scale of your thinking.

Why the first members matter

A curated first circle
Before the door open to the wider public, I am intentionally inviting the first 100 Founding Members from diverse professional backgrounds, industries and perspectives.
Diverse minds
The goal is not to build another homogeneous “career community,” but an ecosystem shaped by ambitious professionals who think differently, challenge each other intellectually and bring varied experiences into the room.
That intentional curation is what creates the real value of the environment.
What changes through the process
01
You stop defining yourself through one role alone.
You begin recognising the professional assets, strengths and opportunities that were already there - but previously underused or invisible.
02
Your next chapter becomes intentional instead of reactive.
You gain clarity around the kind of working life you actually want to build - beyond external expectations and survival decisions.
03
You start thinking in options, not limitations.
Instead of searching for one perfect answer, you begin building multiple professional possibilities aligned with who you are and where the market is moving.
04
You stop overthinking and start validating.
Ideas move from “someday” into reality through structured experimentation, feedback and implementation.
05
You stop guessing and start prototyping in the real world.
Instead of building in isolation or endlessly overthinking, you begin testing ideas directly against real market signals, conversations and feedback.

This creates greater clarity, stronger direction and more grounded professional decisions - based on reality, not assumptions.
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What You Get as a Founding Member

Full Program Access
All 5 modules of the Portfolio Option Builder Framework™ + tools, resources, masterminds & 1:1 sessions.
Founding Members Community
Carefully curated across industries, so every member brings a different professional lens to the table. That's what makes this community genuinely valuable.
Priority Access to Intellectual Salons
Two exclusive live gatherings per year in different European cities, hosted by Modern Salon Movement.
Lifetime Discounts on New Courses
Guaranteed 20% discount on every future course or product released.
Profile Showcase & Visibility
Feature your professional profile, bio and services on the community platform so potential clients and collaborators can find you.
Showcase Your Expertise
As a subject matter expert, you'll have an opportunity to lead workshops, participate in podcasts, and teach your methodologies to the broader community. A built-in stage to present your services and grow your visibility to the growing Portfolio Community.
Early Access to Everything
First to know about new programs, events and special opportunities.
From members and clients
Management consulting industry can burn you out, make you lose sight, shake up long-term perspective. Working with Ania has helped me …… become more strategic and confident in building my own working life. I particularly appreciated our scheduled meetings aside, she made herself available at any time.
William, Boston Consulting Group, UK.
Anna is a very special and professional. She helped me to shape my personal and professional life. If I can say in 1 line " I am a completely different and better version of myself and I continue to be"
Danish Hayat, Business consultant
Anna is a rare kind of sparring partner: competent and no-nonsense. Her program navigates professional and personal challenges with clarity and confidence - while expecting me to show up and do the work. Her mix of support, accountability and strategic challenge is what makes working with her so powerful.
Claudio C.J., Director, UBS Wealth Management
After 20 years in banking, Anna helped me regain motivation, rethink uncertainty and see my life through the lens of options. Her perspective and strong network opened up new possibilities and helped me move forward with renewed confidence and energy.
Michael M., Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild
I also highly recommend working with Ania. She helps broaden perspectives, bring clarity, and uncover new directions for professional growth. Truly worthwhile.
Katarzyna Kowalska-Jarnot, Coach | Trainer
I recommend Ania and her program, it really helped me organize my thinking about this area of ​​​​life.
Joanna Welerowicz, Banking

About Ania Schmidt

Most ambitious professionals do not lack potential. They lack a framework for translating that potential into a more intentional professional life.
For nearly 30 years, I’ve worked with professionals navigating reinvention, uncertainty and the growing sense that one linear career path is no longer enough.
Through Career Partners Institute and Portfolio Career Design Program™, I’ve helped thousands of people build greater professional optionality - without walking away from everything they’ve already built.
My work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, psychology, strategic thinking and real-world implementation. I am less interested in helping people “find a new job” and more interested in helping them redesign the architecture of how they work, grow and build their future.
CEO
Career Partners Institute
47
Countries of work
20,000+
Professionals supported
Researcher of Portfolio Psychology

What people often resonate with most

After years of working with ambitious professionals, I noticed that what people truly crave today is not more content - but the right environment.
  • you have sparring partners to challenge and expand your thinking,
  • mastermind conversations help you see your situation through different lenses,
  • people are open, grounded and genuinely supportive,
  • ambition does not need to be hidden or apologized for,
  • and you no longer feel alone carrying big ideas, transitions or uncertainty.
Portfolio Community was designed to create that kind of space:
intellectually stimulating, psychologically safe and deeply human.

Founding membership opens to 100 people.

By invitation only. Once it is full, founding pricing closes.
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