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id: "entity-midcareer-pilot-program"
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tags: ["research-study", "methodology"]
related: ["claim-reflection-alters-trajectory", "claim-identity-over-performance", "question-cross-industry-applicability"]
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canonicalName: "10-Week Midcareer Pilot Program"
sources: ["tail1"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail1"
originDay: 1
articleStem: "hbr-tail-110-midcareer-work-change"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/05/research-as-careers-get-longer-midcareer-work-needs-to-change"
sourceTitle: "Research: As Careers Get Longer, Midcareer Work Needs to Change"
---
# 10-Week Midcareer Pilot Program

**Type.** Research program / methodology (`entityType: other`).

**Description.** A **10-week** research program developed and piloted by [[entity-lynda-gratton|Lynda Gratton]] and her collaborators. It involved **20 mid- and senior-level professionals** drawn from **three global companies** headquartered in **France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom**.

**Methodology.** A blend of:
- Organizational **diagnostics** (including the [[concept-capacity-for-calm|calm]] metric),
- Deep **individual weekly reflective exercises**, and
- **Peer group conversations**.

Together these surfaced the structural pressures of the [[concept-pivotal-40s]] and produced the findings behind [[claim-reflection-alters-trajectory]] and [[claim-identity-over-performance]].

**Scope caveat.** The narrow, global-corporate, knowledge-worker sample is the basis for [[question-cross-industry-applicability]] and several counter-perspectives — the exact participant count and country list should ideally be verified against the full HBR text.

> Related: [[claim-reflection-alters-trajectory]] · [[claim-identity-over-performance]] · [[question-cross-industry-applicability]]