Guiding Midlife Professionals to Design a Life with Clarity, Purpose and Confidence
At Next Chapter by Design, we believe the years ahead can be your most meaningful and fulfilling yet.
Our mission is simple, to guide people ready for their next chapter from uncertainty to clarity, from busy to balanced, and from achievement to fulfilment.
We work with individuals who are ready to take stock, realign what matters most, and create a practical, strategic plan for what comes next.
The Story Behind the Work
After more than three decades in leadership and business, I found myself guiding others through life’s biggest transitions, career changes, business exits, reinventions, and rediscovering purpose beyond success.
What I noticed was universal: people weren’t lacking ambition, they were lacking clarity. Once that was unlocked, everything else followed, confidence, courage, and consistent action.
That realisation became the foundation for Next Chapter by Design, a space where proven tools, deep reflection, and structured planning meet.
It’s the program I wish I’d had when I began my own next chapter.
The Philosophy That Drives Us
Our approach blends practical strategy with personal insight. We focus on eight key dimensions of life, Purpose, Health, Mindset, Wealth, Family, Leadership, Meaningful Work, and Legacy, ensuring every plan is balanced and grounded in what matters most to you.
Many of us spend more time planning a major holiday than we do the rest of our lives.
In business, we’re comfortable building strategic plans, setting goals, and measuring progress, yet rarely pause long enough to ask, “What’s my personal strategic plan for my future, my family, and my life?”
That’s what Next Chapter by Design exists to change. We bring the same clarity, structure, and accountability used in business strategy to the most important enterprise of all, your life.
Using tools such as the Next Chapter Compass, InnerDrive, and the Demartini Values Discovery Process, clients gain a clear picture of where they are, where they want to go, and the steps to get there.
It’s not theory. It’s life design with a plan you can actually follow.
The eight dimensions form the foundation of the Next Chapter by Design framework, a balanced approach to clarity, purpose, and momentum
Experience and Credibility
Founder Stephen Haller has spent over 30 years building and leading businesses, mentoring high-performing professionals, and integrating world-class methodologies from thinkers such as Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Dr John Demartini, and Vern Harnish.
Alongside this practical leadership experience, Stephen has spent years studying what he calls practical psychology, understanding how people think, communicate, and create change, through advanced training in human behaviour, communication, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
He also holds multiple master’s degrees and continues to blend structured business strategy with human insight.
Stephen understands both the architecture of success and the mindset shifts that make it sustainable, because he’s lived and taught both.
What We Stand For
Next Chapter by Design draws on over 30 years of leadership, mentoring, and study in human performance, business, and values-based psychology, bringing together real- world wisdom with world-class learning to help professionals design what’s next.
We exist to help people make intentional choices, design meaningful work, and live in alignment with who they truly are.
Your Next Step
You don’t need to have it all figured out, you just need to start.
We exist to help people make intentional choices, design meaningful work, and live in alignment with who they truly are.