Ada Offonry guides us through the Clarity Audit, her practical framework for deciding whether to stay in your current role or take the leap into something new. She helps you uncover what’s truly behind your career dissatisfaction and build a plan for your next chapter with purpose and poise.

You’ll discover:

• The 7 root causes of career unhappiness

• The 3 questions that reveal if your situation is fixable

• How to create a “stay” or “go” plan that puts you back in control

Whether you’re craving growth, alignment, or simply more joy in your work, this episode will help you take the next step, clearly and confidently.

Data sources: Job dissatisfaction (64%): Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2024 Thought about leaving (51% UK, 23% did): CIPD Employee Outlook 2025 Similar situation within 18 months (40%): LinkedIn Talent Solutions 2024

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About your Host: Ada Offonry

Ada Offonry provides talent and career intelligence for quantitative finance and technology.

She spent four years as Global Head of Talent at Quadrature Capital, and over 20 years in executive search partnering with hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and elite investment banks across New York, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Ada now works with firms building high performance technology teams, and with senior quantitative and engineering professionals navigating complex career inflection points, through Inference Talent Advisory.

Her work sits at the intersection of market intelligence, talent strategy, and career decision making in an increasingly volatile world of work.

Ada Offonry explores why highly capable, intelligent people still make career decisions they later regret. She breaks down the hidden psychological traps that keep us over optimising for salary, security or titles, staying too long in roles that no longer fit, or leaping into new ones for the wrong reasons.

Today, you'll learn about:

• Optimising for the wrong thing
• Fear disguised as “safety”
• A smarter way to choose what’s next

Data Sources: Job regret (72%): Joblist U.S. Job Seeker Survey 2024 Staying too long out of fear (58%): CIPD UK Employee Outlook 2025 High earners + comp-only decisions: Harvard Business Review, "The High Earner's Dilemma" 2024

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For more from Ada: https://adaoffonry.com/

Follow Ada: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adaoffonry/

Find out more about Ada's new venture: https://www.inferencesearch.ai

About your Host: Ada Offonry

Ada Offonry provides talent and career intelligence for quantitative finance and technology.

She spent four years as Global Head of Talent at Quadrature Capital, and over 20 years in executive search partnering with hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and elite investment banks across New York, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Ada now works with firms building high performance technology teams, and with senior quantitative and engineering professionals navigating complex career inflection points, through Inference Talent Advisory.

Her work sits at the intersection of market intelligence, talent strategy, and career decision making in an increasingly volatile world of work.

In this episode, Ada challenges the myth that reinvention requires quitting your job and starting again. Instead, she breaks down how you can strategically reshape your career within your current organisation, often with more stability, influence and financial upside.

From gaining clarity on what you really want, to navigating internal power structures and negotiating pay with confidence, this episode offers a practical, low-risk path to meaningful career change.

Highlights:

• Reinventing without quitting.
• Power mapping your organisation.
• Negotiating scope and pay confidently.

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Follow Ada: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adaoffonry/

About your Host: Ada Offonry

Ada Offonry provides talent and career intelligence for quantitative finance and technology.

She spent four years as Global Head of Talent at Quadrature Capital, and over 20 years in executive search partnering with hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and elite investment banks across New York, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Ada now works with firms building high performance technology teams, and with senior quantitative and engineering professionals navigating complex career inflection points, through Inference Talent Advisory.

Her work sits at the intersection of market intelligence, talent strategy, and career decision making in an increasingly volatile world of work.