Transform, First Cohort

Create Your Aligned Ambitious 2027

A 10 week Transformation Journey for ambitious professionals to get clear on what you actually want from your life and career, and give yourself permission to create it.

Maybe you know something needs to change. Not because everything is wrong, but because the life, career or definition of success you’ve been building no longer fully fits. Over 10 weeks, you’ll step back, question what you’ve been taught to want, and get clear on what’s actually yours.

10 week journey

5 live sessions

Includes your assessment

Personal peer match

Small cohort community

Sound familiar?

You feel like something's allowed to look different

The old way of living and working doesn’t quite fit anymore. But you don’t yet know what does, or what it could look like instead.

  • Your to-do list keeps postponing the question of what you actually want.
  • You can feel a desire for something more, even if you can’t quite name it yet.
  • Success looks good on paper, but it doesn’t always feel like yours.
  • You miss being around people who ask the same kind of questions you do.
  • The daily responsibilities and limitations make it feel far away, even if you sense there’s more room than it looks like right now.

End 2026 with clarity and start 2027 Aligned & Ambitious.

What's included

Everything you need for the next 10 weeks

What you'll walk away with

After 10 weeks, you don't need your entire future figured out. But you will know:

If this sounds like you, you're exactly who this cohort is for.

Not just a program

Enter your Aligned Ambitious space

“Welcome in this aligned ambitious curated space. Where you’re finally not the only one asking these questions, where you can slow down enough to actually feel what’s going on, and give yourself permission to dream big while gradually figuring out how. You’re supported by facilitators and experts who’ve done this work themselves, and surrounded by a small group of people learning right alongside you. Real time, real people, real space, to figure out what aligned and ambitious actually means for you.”

Your 10 week journey

End 2026 with clarity, start 2027 Aligned & Ambitious

By the end, you’ll know what you want, what needs to change, and what you’re choosing to work on next.

Step 0

Your Assessment & Intake

Before Session 1, you’ll complete the Aligned Ambitious Assessment and a short intake, reflecting on the 11 dimensions of your life and career. Your results become your personal starting point for the journey.
Session 1

Your Challenges, Your Cohort

Facilitated by Marjolein, with an introduction by Floor

4 November, 16:00–17:30 CET

We start with you, and with the people who’ll be walking these 10 weeks with you. Where are you today? What already feels right, what doesn’t, and what’s the real challenge underneath it? Together with your cohort, you’ll explore your assessment results, get to know each other, and define the personal question you want to answer over the next 10 weeks.

We’ll explore

  • Your Aligned Ambitious Assessment
  • Where your life and career feel aligned, and
  • where they don’t
  • The challenge that’s actually been on your mind
  • Who else is in your cohort, and what they’re working through
  • Your personal question for the next 10 weeks

You leave with: your personal starting point, your intention for the journey, and your first connection with the group.

This is the heart of the journey. Once you temporarily put aside what is expected, realistic or sensible, what do you actually want? Not just from your career, but from your days, your energy, your relationships, your money, your freedom, your work, your growth, your joy, and the contribution you want to make. This session is about creating enough space to hear answers you may normally dismiss before you’ve even explored them. It can intentionally be more experiential: reflection, visualisation, intuitive exercises and conversation rather than only rational thinking.

We’ll explore

  • What makes you feel most alive
  • What gives and drains your energy
  • What you want more and less of
  • What enough means to you
  • How you actually want your days and weeks to feel
  • The work you want to do, and how you want to do it
  • The people you want around you
  • Desires you’ve been rationalising away
  • What you would choose if you trusted yourself more

Workbook exercise: More / Less / Start / Stop / Keep

You leave with: the ingredients of an Aligned Ambitious life that feels genuinely yours.

Before figuring out what you want, it helps to understand why you want what you want. Our ideas about success, work, money, relationships and what a good life should look like are shaped by family, culture, education, workplaces and the people around us. This session creates permission to question those assumptions, not because everything needs to change, but because you get to consciously choose what stays, and see what becomes possible once you let go of what isn’t yours.

We’ll explore

  • The definition of success you’ve been living by
  • Expectations and shoulds influencing your choices
  • What you’re pursuing because you genuinely want it
  • What you’ve simply never questioned
  • Where achievement, approval or security may be driving your decisions
  • What you want to keep, and what you’re ready to reconsider

Workbook exercise: Keep / Question / Let Go

You leave with: a clearer view of which limitations were never really yours, and which possibilities open up once you let them go.

Now we bring the pieces together, not into a perfect plan, but into a vision you can use to make choices. You’ll explore what your life and career could look like if you took what you’ve discovered seriously, across work, lifestyle, relationships, energy, money, growth, joy and impact. What stays? What changes? What becomes possible?

We’ll explore

  • Your personal definition of success
  • The life you want to live alongside your ambition
  • The role you want work to play in that life
  • How you want to spend your time and energy
  • What you want to create, contribute or experience
  • What needs to change to make that possible
  • What might be possible sooner than you think
  • The first experiments or decisions you can make

Workbook exercise: My Aligned Ambitious Vision

Not a vision board full of things to achieve, but a personal picture of how you want to live, how you want to work, how you want to feel, who you want around you, what you want to create, what you want to contribute, and what you no longer want to compromise on.

You leave with: your personal Aligned Ambitious Life & Career Vision.

Knowing what you want is one thing. Giving yourself permission to act on it is another. In our final session, we bring the whole journey together: your assessment, what you’ve questioned, what you’ve discovered you want, and the vision you’ve designed. Each participant reflects on what they’re keeping, what they’re letting go of, and the first changes they’re choosing to work on over the year ahead. You’ll leave with a small number of priorities rather than another overwhelming action plan.

Workbook exercise: My Aligned Ambitious Commitments

  • I want more…
  • I want less…
  • I’m letting go of…
  • I’m choosing…
  • I’m going to explore…
  • My first step is…

You leave with: your vision, your personal commitments, and your first steps for the year ahead.

If this sounds like you, you're exactly who this cohort is for.

Who guides you

Curated by Aligned Ambitious, brought to life by three experts

This cohort is curated and facilitated by Floor and Marjolein, with 2 additional experts to complement their expertise. All of them became Aligned Ambitious throughout their career and are ready to share their wisdom and empower you.

Floor Buitelaar

Aligned Ambitious · Founder

Floor

Curated and facilitated by Floor, who opens each session and is there throughout the entire journey.

Powered through three experts

Marjolein

As the coach and co-facilitator of the program, Marjolein will also lead various sessions herself. She’s a professional development coach, that combines her Shiatsu practice and management consultant experience all together into helping you become Aligned Ambitious, as she’s walked the path before.

Expert, to be confirmed

Leads the Session 2 deep dive, Dreaming Big.

Expert, to be confirmed

Leads the Session 4 deep dive, Design Your Aligned Ambitious Life.

Throughout the 10 weeks

The transformation doesn't only happen during the five sessions

Your 10-Week Workbook

Every week has its own assignments and reflections, whether we meet in a session or not. The workbook is there from your assessment to your final vision and commitments. It’s not just something you fill in: it becomes reference material you’ll keep coming back to long after the 10 weeks are over.

Your Reflection Partner

You’ll be matched one to one with someone from your cohort for conversations between sessions. Not as a coach or accountability manager, but as someone asking the same kinds of questions and giving you an outside perspective. We suggest meeting bi-weekly for about 45 minutes so there’s enough time for both of you.

Your Transformation Cohort

A private group chat keeps the conversation going between sessions, and gives you a small group of ambitious professionals to learn from and reflect with.

The Aligned Ambitious Community

You’ll have access to the wider Community throughout the journey, connecting you to other professionals, perspectives and conversations beyond your cohort.

Want this level of support around you for the next 10 weeks?

Your time commitment

Real clarity takes time

This isn’t a program you simply attend. Between sessions, you’ll actively work on creating your own Aligned Ambitious life and career, through your workbook, reflection and small real life experiments.

Time commitment

Real clarity takes about 2 hours a week, outside the live sessions.

That’s the time to work through your exercises, reflections and personal assignments. Ideally, you’ll also build a small daily practice: even 10 to 20 minutes a day to pause, write, reflect and notice what comes up. This way, you make sure to actually live your Aligned Ambitious life after the program ends.

Your workbook journey

How it builds, week by week

0

Assess & intake. Complete your Aligned Ambitious Assessment and intake form, and reflect on where you are today, what already feels aligned and what doesn’t to prepare yourself for the coming 10 weeks.

1&2

Your challenges & your desires. Name the real challenge behind your question, meet your group, and define the personal question you want to explore.

3&4

Dreaming big. Explore what you want more of, less of, want to stop, start and keep. Reflect on your energy, your ideal way of living and working, and what enough means to you.

5&6

From limitations to possibilities. Define your core values, notice which choices come from you and which come from expectations or old definitions of success, and decide what’s truly yours.

7&8

Your Aligned Ambitious Vision. Bring everything together, create your vision for how you want to live and work, and identify a small number of changes or experiments you want to start making.

9&10

Integrate & choose. Reflect on what you’ve discovered, and choose the first changes you’re ready to work on over the year ahead.

Investment

Join the first cohort

€795

€555

excl. VAT

First cohort price, pricing goes up for the next cohort starting in 2027.

FAQ

Good to know before you apply

Who is this cohort for?

Ambitious professionals, whether you work in a corporate role, lead a team, or run your own business. Most participants are between 30 and 40: mid-career, with plenty of runway left to actually benefit from what you discover here. You know what hard work is, and you’ve built something real. But somewhere along the way you’ve started asking yourself: is this it? What else could this look like? What do I actually want? If you’re not quite sure yet what “aligned ambitious” even means, that’s exactly the question this cohort helps you answer.

What is included in the journey?

Your intake & Aligned Ambitious Assessment, 5 live masterclasses (90 minutes each) with a workbook throughout, a matched peer from outside your organization, a private cohort group chat, and access to The Collective for the duration of the journey.

Do I need to attend live?

Yes, but everything is fully online, so you can join from anywhere. The 5 live masterclasses run at set times: Session 1 & 2 in October, Session 3 & 4 in November, and Session 5 in December, each from 16:00 to 17:30 CET. Live participation is a core part of the experience, alongside accountability, group discussion and your peer partner. This is an active coaching journey, not a self paced course.

How much does it cost?

€555 excluding VAT for the first cohort. VAT is 21% for Dutch

Can my employer pay for this?

Yes, that’s very common. Many participants join using their personal training or development budget. We provide a complete invoice for your employer, and we’re happy to align directly with them if that’s helpful.

What happens after the journey ends?

You keep access to The Collective for the duration of the cohort, and you join the first group entering The Collective together when it opens, planned around 1 October 2026.

Who are the coaches for this cohort?

Marjolein and Floor facilitate Sessions 1, 3 and 5. The guest experts leading the Session 2 and Session 4 deep dives are still being confirmed.

When does the cohort start?

The first cohort is planned for start 2nd of November 2026 and finishes end of January 2027.

How many professionals are part of the cohort?

We start the program when we have minimum 6 participants and close the cohort with a maximum of 12 participants. If there are less participants, then we will postpone the cohort start date. If we are oversubscribed, we will consider launching a second cohort. First come first serve.

You don’t need another definition of success.

You need the space and permission to create your own.

Become Aligned Ambitious.