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Professional Development Plan for Language Professionals

Update Your 2026 Vision for Resilience in Your Localization Career

If the start of 2026 feels like a fresh, opportune moment for you to reflect and get clear on your professional development plan, this workshop is for you. TranslaStars wants you to discover, learn, and grow your localization career, and this is our special offer to re-ignite your focus. 

The business(es) you work with sets goals, and you might have timelines and targets that you are accountable to with clients, vendors, or your own team. But what about your own targets? What professional opportunities are the best ones for you to be exploring and pursuing right now? How will you get where you want to be?

Don't miss the chance to challenge yourself!

Knowing what you're aiming for improves your odds of getting there. Don’t know what you want? Or does the fast pace of technological change in the industry feel overwhelming? That’s where we’ll start: wherever you are.

In our annual career planning workshop, your professional coach will guide you to harvest the insights and learnings from the past year to create a foundation for a strong start to 2026 and support you to craft a clear vision and plan for making forward progress in your localization profession.

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  • This course includes:
  • Professional certified coach: Stephen Nock
  • Guided exercises to personalize to your needs
  • Live access to content
  • In English 
  • Completion certificate
  • Knowing what you're aiming for improves your odds of getting there.
  • When: 14 January 2026, 16:00-18:00 CET
  • Duration: 2 h approx. (2 h/session)
Session 1
Session 1

Know How You’ll Grow in 2026

Session 1

The workshop guides you through reflection and planning exercises:
  • Reflection and Acknowledgement: Reflecting on the past year.
  • Grounding and Presencing: Focusing on what is present now.
  • Visualization and Planning: Crafting a clear vision for the future and pivoting from "ideas to action”.

Course and coach description

The start of 2026 may be a chance to re-ignite your focus. This annual goal-setting workshop is TranslaStars’ special offer to support professional action planning and help you define your goals and plans. You will reflect on learnings from the past year to create a strong foundation and create your plan for momentum in your localization profession.

Your instructor is a professional coach who brings expertise developed from their background as a global localization manager in technology start-ups. In the workshop-style course, Stephen provides a structure for reflective exploration that helps you navigate uncertainty and professional shifts, rather than just focusing on .
Meet

Stephen Nock

Stephen is an ICF-accredited coach and teamwork facilitator who helps leaders, teams, and professionals who want to do better work - and live better lives - in a complex, changing world. He holds a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and a masters in Technical Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as certificates of study in yoga (RYT200) and coaching (ICF ACC). 

Stephen spent over a decade in fast-paced technology start-ups across the US and Germany, leading customer experience teams, managing localization and technical writing, and working alongside engineers and scientific experts in complex, mission-driven environments. His own experience as a manageracross cultures, offices, and teams—helped him develop a toolkit of skills and resources that most managers never learn. Today, through &joy Coaching, he creates experiences that shift how people see themselves, each other, and the work they’re doing. Whether it’s a manager stepping into leadership, a team navigating change, or a cohort of high-potential talent, Stephen helps you build clarity, calm, and emotional intelligence. Although born in Germany as an American citizen, he was raised in the US and has lived in Berlin since 2017. He is fluent in English, used to know Spanish well, and today continues to learn German.
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