The ReMakeX Expert Panel
Real transitions. Unfiltered perspective.
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Every ReMakeX cohort is led by a permanent lead facilitator and supported each week by an external expert from the panel.
The lead facilitator is present throughout the full eight weeks: running group sessions, reviewing assignments, challenging and orchestrating the group process from start to finish.
The external experts are experienced professionals who made significant career or economic shifts themselves.
They are not motivational speakers, delivering a script.
They are people who understand what it means to build various professional identities and are willing to be honest about what that actually looked like.
Expert names and backgrounds are shared with cohort participants directly.
Experts are matched to each cohort based on relevance to the group's industries, seniority levels and transition types.
The panel is continuously growing.
We add new experts on an ongoing basis so that we can offer increasingly specific matches across more industries, functions and seniority levels.
The panel
External expert profiles are anonymised on this page. Names and full backgrounds are disclosed to cohort participants directly.
LEAD FACILITATOR & FOUNDER
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Sanjar Ibragimov, strategy professional, management consultant, entrepreneur and transition architect
Transition
From commercial law into international development at the World Bank Group, then into global business across management consulting, strategic marketing, corporate strategy, venture capital and entrepreneurship. Founded ventures, built and ran a consulting practice, published a science fiction novel through a publishing contract, and is currently growing ReMakeX while working in corporate strategy in the energy transition sector. Lived and worked in more than 15 countries.
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Mapping economic value across the intellectual, emotional and execution layers that most professionals have never articulated together
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Identifying which of your skills and experiences genuinely travel across contexts versus which ones are tied to a specific role or industry
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Building a realistic, pressure-tested next-path hypothesis and designing the first external test of it
Most people underestimate how much transferable value they are sitting on and the moment they start treating their career as a portfolio of deliberate projects rather than a single continuous path, everything about how they make decisions changes.
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MBB strategy consultant with a PhD in theoretical physics
Transition
Left academia after completing a doctorate to pursue a career in strategic consulting, moving from the world of research into the commercially driven world of business strategy.
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How to assess the realistic viability of a direction before committing to it
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Stress-testing ideas honestly, separating what is compelling from what is actually feasible
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Building execution discipline when the environment stops providing external structure
The goal is not to build the career that looks right from the outside, but the one that still makes sense when you are honest with yourself.
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Strategy and transformation expert: energy, industrial, and infrastructure sectors
Transition
Began in Oil & Gas offshore operations and moved progressively into corporate environments, MBB strategy consulting, and executive-level transformation programs across multiple continents.
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How to operate credibly in completely unfamiliar environments: building relationships fast, reading different working cultures, and staying effective under pressure
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Why saying yes before you feel fully ready is often the move that accelerates everything
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When technical expertise stops being your differentiator and communication and adaptability take over
The ability to adapt fast and communicate confidently in unfamiliar situations becomes a stronger differentiator than technical expertise alone, sooner than most people expect.
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Finance and commercial expert at a global semiconductor company
Transition
Relocated from Central Asia to Europe and transitioned from financial audit into commercial finance and controlling, navigating both a geographic move and a functional shift simultaneously.
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How to integrate into a new professional and cultural environment without losing your existing strengths
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Onboarding effectively into a new role or location: what to prioritise when you cannot absorb everything at once
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How to apply the 80/20 principle intelligently in the first months of any major transition
The first six months in any new role or context are the most crucial: you build reputation, experience, and a knowledge base that compounds, so what you choose to focus on early matters far more than most people realise.
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strategy consultant & actuary, financial services sector
Transition
Moved from a specialised actuarial background into strategy consulting, expanding from deep technical expertise into executive-level problem-solving across financial services.
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How to reposition from specialist to strategist: what changes and what stays the same
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Testing business or career ideas with disciplined execution rather than endless planning
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Building a sharper hypothesis about your next direction when the data is incomplete
Most people in transition do not need a perfect plan, they need a sharper hypothesis, honest feedback, and enough momentum to test it in the real world.
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Strategy consultant at an MBB firm, previously in senior commercial roles in Tier-1 FMCG and in high-growth tech across Southeast Asia and LATAM
Transition
Left a ten-year FMCG career when the industry stopped feeling right without a landing spot lined up. What followed included a startup and currently MBB consulting.
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Why the prestige of your company or industry often means very little outside your own context and how to map what genuinely travels with you versus what stays behind
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How your sense of what counts as a good move is shaped by the bubble you are in and how to see beyond it
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Why the move you are most skeptical about often unlocks the next level, and how to evaluate it without waiting for certainty
Do not outsource this decision to people who have never made the move: they may not be wrong about the risks, they just cannot see what is on the other side.
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Ex-MBB consultant, now Chief of Product and Analytics at a proptech startup, operating at the intersection of property, AI agents, and data analytics
Transition
Left a seven-plus year strategy consulting career to join a four-person startup, trading structured problem-sets and a global brand for end-to-end ownership of product, analytics, and client delivery. Ran both in parallel for a year before making the full transition.
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How to build real leverage with AI when you are a small operator using AI agents and data tooling as a substitute for a full project team
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How careers in technology are being redrawn and why the professionals who win are building across disciplines rather than going deeper into one
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What actually changes when you stop handing the deck to the client and have to live with the decision yourself including the unglamorous work that consulting usually abstracts away
Transitions look like a leap on LinkedIn and feel like a grind in real life. Most of the value gets built in the boring eighteen months in the middle that nobody posts about.
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Management consultant at an MBB firm, previously six-plus years in supply chain and operations at a global FMCG company, and founder of a professional networking community
Transition
Three country moves and three career resets over four years, forced to rebuild a successful FMCG career from scratch after relocating, then again in a new country and culture, then made a deliberate pivot from operations into management consulting. In parallel, moved from self-identified introvert to running an active networking community.
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How to rebuild professional identity across countries when your previous credentials do not transfer cleanly
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Networking as a learnable skill, not a personality trait: what actually works when you are starting from zero in a new market
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Switching between doing and advising roles: what to carry over, what to leave behind, and how to avoid undervaluing either side of your experience
The hardest part of a transition is not learning the new context. It is letting go of the version of yourself that worked in the old one.
How the expert panel works inside the program.
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Each week includes a dedicated expert session alongside the regular group work. The expert reviews what the group has been working on that week, challenges the directions participants are developing, and contributes perspective from their own transition experience.
This is not a lecture. It is a structured challenge session: the expert's job is to ask the questions and offer perspectives, from the vantage point of someone who has actually made the move.
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Experts also serve as connectors. The relationships participants build with panel members are part of the professional network they leave the program with.
Ready to join a cohort?
The expert panel is one of the things that makes the Group Transition Program different from anything else available. If you are an experienced professional navigating a career transition, applications for the first cohorts are open now.
Are you someone who has made the shift?
We are building a panel of professionals who have navigated significant career or economic transitions and are willing to contribute their experience honestly to others going through the same thing.
If you have made a meaningful shift (from employment to independent practice, from one sector to another, from specialist to generalist, from corporate to entrepreneurial) and want to be part of the ReMakeX expert network, we would like to hear from you.