Seeking advice on moving from Consulting towards a Chief of Staff or similar roles (with more flexibility!)

[ethereal2024]

Hello fellow Mums

I am seeking your advice and would appreciate any thoughts / pointers / suggestions!

I work for a big consulting company and I have a risk/regulatory/chief of staff experience. Although I'm 4 days a week, I am client facing and the hours are long and I'm needing to work evenings and weekends. I'm also a parent of a young child. My partner has an intense full time job.

I would really appreciate some advice on making a move from where I am now towards a more flexible Chief of Staff or similar role (ideally non external client facing given the particular demands that come with that), such that I can still have a career and carry forward what I have tried so hard to build to some extent, but also be there for my child as a Mum, especially when they need me; pick ups; and more easily deal with emergency situations. Surely this is possible, it just does not feel that way.

Thanks in advance!

I've seen loads of chief of staff job ads in the last few weeks (I'm job hunting), most looking for consultancy background. Because I'm looking for charity sector work the ones I'm seeing are in that sector which mostly come with a lot of flexibility and hybrid working (2 days in office) but room to negotiate.

Just start looking and applying. Sounds like you've brilliant experience to bring.

I'd love to know more about Chief of Staff roles - I've never worked anywhere that had one so my entire experience is based on Leo McGarry on the West Wing. I'm an inhouse lawyer at C-suite level, and would love to broaden out. I've got technical expertise when it's needed but my real strength is being an all-round problem solver, and I'm definitely better as the right-hand-woman to a CEO/founder than actually being the leader at the top of the tree. Is it that sort of stuff?