Our Mission

Career development for sustainable creative lives in a precarious sector.

 

Our Mission

Boundless Careers exists to strengthen the long-term sustainability of creative careers within a structurally precarious sector.

Creative work is central to cultural life, yet the careers that sustain it are often fragmented, short-term, and under-supported. Much existing provision focuses on individual projects, immediate employability, or discrete skill acquisition, with limited attention given to how creative careers are developed and sustained over time.

Boundless addresses this gap.

We design research-informed career development approaches that support creatives, and the organisations that work with them, to navigate non-linear, portfolio careers with greater coherence, adaptability, and integrity across a working lifetime.

Our work recognises that career difficulty in the creative sector is not a personal failure, but a predictable outcome of structural conditions. In response, we focus on building career development capability rather than offering quick fixes or generic advice.

We believe that a sustainable creative sector depends on retaining creative talent, not continually replacing it and that this requires professional, theory-informed career infrastructure designed specifically for the realities of creative work.

Boundless Careers works with creatives, arts and cultural organisations, universities, and sector bodies to support career sustainability, resilience-without-blame, and meaningful creative lives that can endure change.

 

“This project has been instrumental in propelling me forward in my creative career.”

— Breaking Ground participant

 

“I found the content to be an excellent introduction to a more positive vision of my future career. I feel that I can apply more of my innate abilities to various aspects of my future career.“

- Career Mapping for Creatives Participant

 

“Exceptionally useful… allowed for an important shift in career perception.”

- Developing and Managing a Creative Career - Participant

“Great training, very inspiring and I believe it will be beneficial! Thank you.”

- Career Self-Management for Creatives - Participant

 

What We’ve Achieved

  • Worked 1-2-1 with over 100’s of creatives from across the UK, Ireland and Europe to develop more sustainable and fulfilling careers.

  • Delivered 400+ hours of career coaching sessions to creatives across the entire sector.

  • Developed and delivered the ‘Breaking Ground’ artist development project in 2021 & 2022. One of the first group projects of its kind to incorporate peer-to-peer support, career theory and psychological well-being into artist development.

  • Developed a range of training including ‘Sustaining a Creative Career’ one day group training in adaptive career skills for Cultural and Creative Industries Skillnet, Ireland.

  • Designed and delivered ‘Career Mapping for Creatives’; a three hour training in self-directed career management for graduates at university level who are entering the creative sector.

  • Created and currently deliver the ‘Freelance 'Problem Solving’ sessions for Freelancers Make Theatre Work, an advocacy group for freelance creatives working in the UK theatre industry.

  • Created career development workshops for Minding Creative Minds, a service who offer free 24/7 well-being and support for Irish creative sector.