About Clara
My name is Clara Chorley, I launched Clarity Unlimited during the 2009 recession in reaction to not being able to get a job (to be honest, I didn’t try very hard). Seemed like a good idea at the time, and over a decade later we’re still here.
I was born in England and moved to the USA in my early 20s. A big part of my heart lives in parts of Africa, where I often spend time. I’ve lived in Rwanda, Netherlands and France. I like unconventional travel, photography, cooking for friends, and dancing salsa.
Part of the Story…
From a young age I’ve spent time in parts of the world where war, conflict and greed had resulted in widespread poverty and suffering — slums in India, orphanages in Romania, the fall out after genocide in Cambodia and the killing fields of Vietnam… to name a few.
The more years I spent in the working world, the more torn I felt.
I wanted a business life and to have a humanitarian impact.
I also wanted to have more fun, which was apparently difficult for this ‘more work, less play’ Brit.
It became clear over time that I needed both, and that I’d have to get creative if that was going to happen.
So I did.
- I dropped ideas about how my work, my impact — my life in general — should look.
- Stopped trying to be someone I felt I should be…
- Grew into the version of myself that those who loved me already saw.
I began to open up to a possibility that there was a way to bring business and humanitarian impact together — I just hadn’t thought of it yet.
But change and new ideas don’t happen over night. They start with reflection, personal excavation, a mind that’s willing to open, and choices that lead to new outcomes.
Over time — and honestly it hasn’t been ‘easy’ — I fundamentally changed my relationship with myself, and started to care less whether the world approved of me or not (that was big). I expanded what I believed I was capable and deserving of.
My journey has required revisiting difficult events in my past, facing fears I carried about myself, and releasing shame that never belonged to me. I slowly stopped hiding how lost I felt, and how I didn’t know how to feel safe in a world that often doesn’t embrace powerful, visible women (men, too, but this is about me ☺).
My Mission
To support professionals to expand their impact and influence by transforming long-term individual limitations, expanding capacity, and choosing work environments where they can thrive.
This world needs more good people with integrity in positions of power.
I started to care less whether others approved of me or not (that was big).
I expanded what I believed I was capable and deserving of, and walked away from what and who didn’t fit more often.
This has made all the difference.
Rest of the Story…
Over the last decade and more I’ve helped hundreds of people tap back in to their confidence, and shift the direction of their careers [lives] into something better and more fulfilling.
I’ve witnessed so much bravery.
It takes a quiet, deeply personal courage to:
- speak truths never before shared
- choose a new direction in life
- embrace hidden parts of ourselves
- do what’s needed when fear and doubt argue for the status quo
And when our life and resumes look good it can be hard to get buy-in that we’re struggling. In addition to that, some people…
- feel guilty for wanting more
- struggle to believe they can have more
- feel an obligation to ‘stick it out’
- simply can’t see straight because they’re exhausted
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Most of us find our way forwards faster when we have skillful, empathic support that works with our unique needs and preferences. I’ve received this kind of support over the years, and so this is the service I provide.
I’ve noticed a tension between “I want better, I want more”, and “I’m unhappy but it’s familiar.” Many will stay in poor-fitting work situations longer than they need to. But as years go by, comfort and familiarity start to conflict with deeper desires to do more, be more, have more…
It’s deeply rewarding to live a life congruent with who you know yourself to be. When we’re at peace with our place in the world, we naturally care more, play more and influence more. Which is sort of the point to all of this.
Ready to make a change?