Luna Leadership

Name: Luna Leadership
Address: Liverpool, L10AB, GB
Telephone: +447513017649

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Impact Illuminator 🌙 Career Growth & Community Impact. Evaluation/ Data Analyst / Careers / Health & Wellbeing. https://linktr.ee/lunacenti

Academic Misfits host; * Confidently crafting clear & compelling impact stories!

16/10/2026

What an amazing testimonial!

8 months of searching jobs, tailoring CVs, applying to 100+ positions and receiving consistent rejections.
6 months into this process, I hit a point where I didn't know what I was doing wrong. I had the qualifications, experience and confidence needed to excel in roles I applied for.
That's when I decided to work with Luna Clara Muñoz, PhD FRSA FHEA and enrolling in her Life After Academia programme. If you are in a similar situation, I highly recommend exploring different ways of seeking her guidance.
She helped me highlight my strengths in applications and shift my mindset from thinking like an early career academic researcher to a nutritionist with extensive community research and evidence translation experience. We worked on the following aspects together-
1. Identifying 2-3 strongest career paths outside academia. 2. Repackaging my skills in a way that translates across professions. We identified a mix of soft and technical skills. 3. Preparing for interviews in a way where I found the courage to present my strongest and truest self instead of being moldable to a fault.
The result: I've joined Southwark Council as a Healthy Food Officer, which is a tangible outcome to this experience. Not only this, but I have a clearer idea about who I am
professionally apart from being a PhD which is an intangible and valuable outcome.
Thank you Luna Clara Muñoz, PhD FRSA FHEA for offering a wonderful pathway to growth, ambitions and finding the best in myself. You're a rockstar!!

06/10/2026

I climbed the ladder for this!! This was said in the last Life After Academia session where the film seemed to have cleared from the burnt out academic's eyes.

What had been a drive to stay for the students' sake, was now a realisation that this was a toxic relationship exploiting our empathy, our thirst for knowledge, and our wanting to support the next generation.

But the hours are foolishly long...

The promise of a permanent job has been revealed to be a man behind the curtain selling us AI... (literally, men).

The number of students who value us cannot make up for the constant lack of validation from management.

And it all feels less like a ladder and more like a weapon!

Join us for the Ivory Tower Inner Fire summit starting on Friday to confront more truths about the promise of academia and what other paths are available to us when we release fear!

(I'm not an affiliate ... because let me tell you about another promise... the American Dream... yes, I bought the Brooklyn Bridge too haha)
ivorytowerinnerfire[.]com

05/10/2026

Today! Life After Academia folks get access to Monthly Mindset Monday sessions with Paulina Trevena

Today's topic is "Stepping off the productivity treadmill"

Explore the pressure to keep doing more, and work out what “enough” could look like at this stage of your life.

If you'd like to join us, I have 1 more space this month! DM or email me for details.

30/09/2026

Why did I decide to join the Ivory Tower Inner Fire Summit? Because it's a lot of my experience in building my business these last 4.5 years!

For me, I want you to know you have all the skills you need to start in consultancy.

1. Research and methodology
2. Logical and critical thinking
3. Strategic planning and judicious judgment

What you need is the capacity building which you can do before you leave academia, being purposeful in creating a sustainable business. That way, you make the contribution you want to make to the world!

Join us for the 3-day summit 9-11 October.

Register for FREE at Ivorytowerinnerfire[.]com

29/09/2026

🤩WE'RE DOING IT ALL AGAIN!! 🤩

I'm speaking at the Ivory Tower Inner Fire Summit, a free 3-day virtual event (October 9-11) for academics who’re somehow bound by a vow of poverty they don’t actually remember taking.

You know the deal: Changing students’ minds and lives … never actually getting paid what the work is worth. Eleven years for the degree, postdoc, a few more on the market or decades adjuncting, and an unspoken agreement that wanting to be paid properly would make you greedy.

What drew me to this summit is that it refuses two easy answers.
1. It doesn't tell you to rage quit! Because an academic ESCAPE is not the answer.
2. It doesn't tell you to be grateful.

It takes seriously the possibility that soul-aligned work and a real income are collaborators; that strategy, skills and fierce and rebellious joy can be part of your new journey.... whatever that looks like.

Over three days, 20+ speakers will get into:

* What people with academic credentials actually charge for their work
* How to rebuild a livelihood after leaving, or alongside staying in, the academy
* Why the metaphysical toolkit you've been treating as a hobby might be a practice

Free to attend, with 48-hour access to every presentation.

Go to ivorytowerinnerfire[.]com to register for free!

23/09/2026

Researchers bring far more value than we tend to give ourselves credit for.

I recently helped a charity with a funding bid. They had fed their organisation’s details and the grant questions into a chatbot, then used the output to shape their draft. It all looked neat enough. The trouble was, it was heading in the wrong direction.

I asked for all the grant details: the guide, FAQs, webinar links, the lot. After doing my research, I saw that their description of the charity's activities did not fit the grant’s scope or aims at all.

Once I flagged this and began to draft new wording and answers (without AI), the CEO said, “Luna, I don’t know what we would have done without you. We had four days left and were going in completely the wrong direction.”

We worked hard over a day and a half to build a new bid. We set out fresh plans, teams and links that gave the charity its best chance. I also supported the resourcing plans as well as the costings.

We did get it sent in by the deadline!! Phew! There were a few late nights, but I believe in their cause and knew the bid mattered.

We have kept working together since then, as they saw the value I could bring.

I can see why my consultancy benefits both career changers and organisations looking to develop alike. You need to research who you are applying to, what they want and what sits behind their words. Researchers are well placed to do this work. With time and skill, you learn to spot their future goals and follow their wider plans.

Did I use AI? Yes, I'm not against AI (except for the data privacy issues, the financial bubble, the overreach into govt, the overinflated projections, the outsized impact on our environment... but other than that...). But I sometimes use it as an evaluator, not a writer! I'm too good of a writer for that, plus I want to show my clients' unique and colourful strengths which needs our voice.

(Photo by My Black Joy Collective )

21/09/2026

I was on a video call with a coaching client when she got a phone call offering her the job!!

We had spent two hours on interview prep, plus 90 minutes on a full skills audit, skill translation and skills articulation. There was also CV work, tracked edits, cover letters and more back-and-forth. Then, just like that, it seemed -- it happened.

She told me she had moved from the US and thought finding work here in the UK would be easy. It was not. But she has now landed an amazing role in government. It pays far more than a first role in academia after a post-doc, and I am so proud of her.

Being on that call was unreal. I cried. She cried. It had been just over a month since she hired me.

She called me a rock star, but I told her the truth: she did the work and trusted the process. This is a hard task when you're full of anxiety, money is dwindling, and you feel worn down from academia making you feel lesser than.

She had applied across lots of fields and industries. We slowed things down (though “slow” is still only a month) and chose roles with care and discernment. We asked where her skills and rare training would be seen and valued.

And that is when she was offered 4 interviews after never landing an interview.

I took notes as the hiring lead spoke about why they chose her. Their reasons give her strong words for how she works and what she brings. One was a hard skill; the other was a soft skill.

That is huge! It is what I aim to find in every skills audit: both the hard skills and the human ones. Then the work is in articulating them. Too many academics miss this part.

I am absolutely thrilled!

[photo is of a sunflower being harvested for seeds from a community space - I made a smiley face by rubbing away some of the flower petals]

17/09/2026

Next on Academic Misfits 🎙️ is Jennifer van Alstyne.

Poet. Two master's degrees. Medievalist. And the founder of The Academic Designer, where she helps professors and researchers build their online presence.
She turned down adjuncting to devote her time to her new business idea, even though she hadn't been making money.

She bet on herself!

On this episode of Academic Misfits, Jennifer and I discuss:
✨ Why poetry became her most unexpectedly useful business skill
✨ Busting the myth that industry jobs "close doors"
✨ Why one-on-one connection matters more than ever
✨ How she built a life of flexibility and creativity outside the academy, while taking all the skills she built in communication while working for the university

Plus: the song that brings her back to herself when everything feels too much. 🎹

Fascinating interview and we have plans to do a livestream about being visible... would you be interested in such a topic?

29/07/2026

It's just vibes coding! This is what I see in social impact.

Many organisations I work with start with vibes. They look at the feelings and emotions of those who join their programmes or services. If they're a bit more organised or advanced in their evaluation journey, they might also track numbers, like attendance and engagement.

But often, it's all about vibes and feelings.

They don't dig into how their programmes achieved these feelings. Most haven't thought through the steps their community goes through to get to their ultimate outcome (better well-being, etc).

You don't need a big change diagram but you must know what moved the needle. This comes from talking to clients, testing ideas, and desk research on how change happens in your field.

Chatting with an evaluator like me helps. ;)

We need to follow our clients' paths and also our own. This ensures we align with future funding needs without being reactive.

Take a proactive approach that fits your values and community expectations.

I've learned this as a business owner and by supporting local CICs and other businesses. If you seek help in this area, I’m quite busy, but I love working with creative, community-based groups that aim to boost well-being. That’s what I live for!

24/07/2026

I'm excited to share my guest spot with Catrina Mitchum for her Course Creation Crap podcast.

"You Already Built the Course: Reorganizing What You Have Instead of Starting Over."

In it, I've gotten so much expert advice.

* Build a Choose Your Own Adventure to the course to gamify it a bit
* Bring in the freebies I've created and make them more effective within the course
* Stop creating more freebies! haha!
* Have 1:1 sessions that accelerate progress at the biggest stick-points to ensure people complete and feel the course has actually helped them.

https://www.cmlearningdesign.com/podcast

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