Next Decade · A members' community

Your next chapter isn't a plan. It's a plot twist.

The main chapter is changing: a career winding down, the family grown, a long role coming to an end. The question stops being how to fill the time and starts being what it's all for. Next Decade is where you work that out: practical courses, honest self-assessments, and people asking exactly the same thing.

A founding-member invitation. Free to join, no card required. The first 100 members get a full year free, even once membership becomes paid.

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The Compass · free · no login

Not sure where to start? Start with a question.

Take a quick Next Decade Compass — no sign-up needed. Just an honest nudge in a direction.

What do I want to take on next? →
What you get

Four ways in.

Everything lives in one calm, members-only space — think, try things, and talk them through with people asking the same questions.

How it works

Three steps, then you're in.

01

Join free

No card, no catch. You're a founding member from the first click — and one of only 100.

02

Explore at your pace

Open a short course or take a Compass quiz. See what lands before you commit a single evening.

03

Talk it through

Bring it into the community and ask the questions that actually matter — with people asking them too.

Become a founding member

Free for a full year · no card required

Founding membership · the first 100

Be one of the first 100.

Next Decade is just opening its doors, and the first 100 people in are our founding members. Join now and your membership is free for a full year, even once it becomes paid. You also get a real say in what this place becomes.

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58 places left at founding terms
Claim your founding place

After your free year, membership is just €6.50 a month or €65 a year, and only if you choose to continue. Founding places are limited to the first 100 members.

Try it yourself

Real things to think with.

Press any card to open it. The ones marked free are open right now, and the rest unlock free the moment you join.

Self-Paced Courses Free with a login

Three are open to try. Press a card to open it, and the rest unlock free when you join the community.

Open the course: What Is a Title, Really?01

What Is a Title, Really?

What a job title was really doing for you.

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Self-Paced Course · 01

What Is a Title, Really?

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02 Members

Finding Your Flow

Read your working past for verbs, not titles.

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Members only · Course 02

Finding Your Flow

This one's for members. Join the community free to open it.

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Open the course: How Do You Know What You Want?03

How Do You Know What You Want?

Trade endless thinking for small experiments.

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Self-Paced Course · 03

How Do You Know What You Want?

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04 Members

Designing a Portfolio Life

One anchor, with lighter strands around it.

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Members only · Course 04

Designing a Portfolio Life

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Open the course: The Energy Audit05

The Energy Audit

Manage your energy, not just your time.

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Self-Paced Course · 05

The Energy Audit

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06 Members

What You're Made Of

Tell your strengths from your competences.

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Members only · Course 06

What You're Made Of

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07 Members

The Story You Tell

Change the tense, and change what follows.

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The Story You Tell

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08 Members

Being a Beginner Again

Surviving the dip when you learn something new.

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Being a Beginner Again

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09 Members

Money Through a Transition

From a steady paycheck to managing your own resources.

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Members only · Course 09

Money Through a Transition

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The Next Decade Compass Free to try

Take the quiz: What do I want to take on next?

What do I want to take on next?

Surface what you actually want to take on now.

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Next Decade Compass

What do I want to take on next?

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Take the quiz: Take, build, or leave?

Take, build, or leave?

Stay, reshape, or move on — weighed honestly.

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Next Decade Compass

Take, build, or leave?

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Take the quiz: Should I start something of my own?

Should I start something of my own?

Test your appetite for doing your own thing.

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Next Decade Compass

Should I start something of my own?

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Take the quiz: What learning is right for me?

What learning is right for me?

Find the way you really learn best.

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Next Decade Compass

What learning is right for me?

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Take the quiz: What is my next decade really about?

What is my next decade really about?

Name what this next decade is for.

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Next Decade Compass

What is my next decade really about?

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Join the community

Free to join. Founding members welcome.

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Go deeper — guided cohorts Some offered separately

The community

Conversations worth having.

Not a noisy forum. A small, thoughtfully hosted space for the kind of honest conversation that's hard to find elsewhere — about work, identity and what comes next.

  • A members' directory & profiles — find people by what they're working on. Live now
  • Ask Mags Anything — a monthly live conversation with the founder. Scheduled
  • A welcome conversation for every new member, to get your bearings. Live now
  • Weekly prompts to think with — proper questions, not small talk. Live now

Next Decade is being built with its founding members — so we're honest about what's live today and what's on the way.

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Members in conversation
Mags Treanor — Founder of Next Decade
Who's behind it

What do you actually
want next?

Hi, I’m Mags Treanor and I’m the founder of Next Decade. I’ve spent years working with people who are very good at what they do, until one day the question changes from “How do I get ahead?” to “What do I actually want next?”

We invest an extraordinary amount of ourselves in our working lives. Work gives us structure, identity, status and, if we’re lucky, a sense of purpose. Then something changes. A career ends, a new opportunity appears, or we simply realise that the life we’ve carefully constructed doesn’t quite fit anymore. And strangely enough, nobody hands us a new script.

I’ve done a bit of rewriting myself, and discovered that some of the most interesting chapters don’t necessarily arrive in the order we’re told to expect.

I created Next Decade for people who are curious about what comes next, and who aren’t particularly interested in being defined by what they’ve already done. It’s a place for fresh perspectives, interesting people, new possibilities and some genuinely worthwhile conversations.

Because staying busy is one thing. Building a life that still feels meaningful, stimulating and relevant is quite another.

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Questions, answered

Before you join.

The honest answers to what people usually want to know — no small print, no pressure.

Is this really for me?

If a role has ended, a direction has shifted, or the plan you've followed for years has quietly stopped fitting — and you've started asking “so what now?” — then yes. You don't need a plan to join. You just need the question.

What does it cost?

Nothing to join. The first 100 members get a full year free. After that it's €6.50 a month or €65 a year — and only if you decide it's worth staying for.

How much time does it take?

As little as you like. The courses are short and self-paced — one honest idea at a time, in your own time. Dip in for ten minutes or spend an afternoon; nobody's keeping score.

Do I have to post or share publicly?

Never. Read, think, and quietly take what's useful. The conversation is there when you want it, not a demand the day you arrive.

Is it finished?

It's just opening its doors — and that's the point. Join now and you help shape what it becomes. Founding members get a real say in what Next Decade turns into.

Join us

The next decade is yours to design.

Join free as a founding member, explore everything, and help shape what Next Decade becomes.

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